I’d say the Diamondbacks should be worried, but they’re past that. Whatever spell I cast on them previously, they’ve made disappear.
Sign up for The Windup newsletter | Levi Weaver and Ken Rosenthal deliver expert analysis on the biggest MLB. stories every weekday. I’m not going to take credit for the going to the World Series. But I sort of should. At least twice in recent years, I wrote favorably about the Diamondbacks in the first half of the season, only to see them sputter. And so began a running gag with general manager Mike Hazen, who has mock-pleaded with me not to write his team ever since.
Last season Arizona improved by 22 wins, but still finished only 74-88, a performance that did not exactly merit hosannas from yours truly. This season the club was much more interesting, and Jayson Stark wrote in June about how the Diamondbacks were one of the teams and surprising the sport. But not wanting to ruin anything, I mostly kept my distance until combining with Will Sammon on a feature about a in early September.
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