The valuation of the Arizona Diamondbacks has remained stagnant compared to a year ago, according to the team values released by Forbes on Thursday. The D-backs’ franchise value held steady at $1.29 billion, the same as it was in 2019.
Major League Baseball has considered a plan that would drastically realign divisions in order to improve the viability of playing out the 2020 MLB season that’s been put on hold by coronavirus.
Major League Baseball is the latest to turn in the ball for the controller. One player from each of MLB’s 30 teams, including Arizona Diamondbacks pitcher Jon Duplantier, will play a 29-game round-robin regular season of MLB The Show starting Friday.
Former Arizona Diamondbacks third baseman Mark Reynolds announced Thursday that he is officially retiring. “I’ve retired,” he told SiriusXM MLB Network Radio.
Arizona Diamondbacks president and CEO Derrick Hall said Thursday it “doesn’t make any sense” to be too quick to resume the MLB season as it’s currently on hold because of the coronavirus.
If you’re waiting on Major League Baseball to bring all 30 of its teams to Arizona for an isolated resumption of the season, don’t hold your breath. MLB itself released a statement on Tuesday slowing any premature excitement regarding the plan, which had reportedly been discussed and strongly considered.
The D-Backs spent significant sums in free agency for the first time since GM Mike Hazen came aboard and pulled off an interesting trade for a key veteran.
Major League Baseball issued a statement Tuesday acknowledging it has discussed the entire league descending on one location to restart the season with coronavirus-caused restrictions on the public still in place.
Could all thirty teams play meaningful games in Arizona? It's an idea that Major League Baseball is considering.
The dispute stems from a letter in which managing general partner Ken Kendrick instructed minority owners with stakes of less than one percent to either increase their share to at least that threshold or to sell their shares back to the Diamondbacks at a price determined by a third-party appraiser.
The Diamondbacks added Madison Bumgarner and Starling Marte, but is it enough to make noise in the NL West? Dalton Del Don previews the team for 2020 fantasy.
RHP Corbin Martin has been long-coveted by Arizona until the team acquired him in the Zack Greinke blockbuster, but a summer 2019 Tommy John surgery will see him on the shelf until 2021.
In November 2016, the Mariners sent right-hander Taijuan Walker and middle infielder Ketel Marte to the Diamondbacks for middle infielder Jean Segura, outfielder Mitch Haniger and lefty Zac Curtis. Here's how that traded impacts those teams today.
The Arizona Diamondbacks know that the ideal situation was — and still is — to play as many Major League Baseball games as possible, fans in the stands and everything.
Nick Ahmed of the Arizona Diamondbacks wonders if wearing masks is a viable option to get the MLB season started.
As the world struggles to contain the spread of the coronavirus, Arizona Diamondbacks star Ketel Marte is trying to help people in his hometown. Marte posted a video to Instagram of himself passing out food and supplies in the city of Nizao in the Dominican Republic.
For now, Ray and the Diamondbacks haven't discussed a contract extension.
(AUTHOR’S NOTE: The following is a work of fiction. But it could’ve, would’ve and should’ve been true.) Madison Bumgarner stood at his locker, looking down on the media crowding his space.
Both players struggled at the big league level last season.
If you’ve been to enough games at Chase Field, home of the Arizona Diamondbacks, you may be familiar with the Hot Dog Derby. It’s a game that’s played between innings in which three kids are given big hot dog costumes to wear, and they run in place on the warning track as corresponding hot dog characters on the screen race each other.
Madison Bumgarner had been moonlighting as a rodeo star during his days with the Giants, and their minor league affiliate wasted no time capitalizing on it.
As funny as the story about Bumgarner’s well-honed alias is, it does open up a bit of a can of worms from a contractual perspective.
Bumgarner strikes out the side and ropes them down... on the side.
Urueta joined the Diamondbacks organization in 2007. He became a field coordinator for the team’s Dominican Summer League team in 2011 and later served as manager for the Arizona League team from 2013-14.
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