In 2014, the Diamondbacks fired longtime general manager Kevin Towers, a move that fans felt was quite overdue. He was replaced by a "chief baseball officer" of Tony LaRussa and eventual GM hire Dave Stewart, the former pitcher who had been working as a player agent. The Diamondbacks were set to pick #1 overall in the 2015 Draft and were entering a new era.

I don't think of the Dave Stewart Era as a positive one for the Diamondbacks. I certainly don't view it as an era of savvy trading, mostly because my mind jumps to Shelby Miller. The new regime had already made one trade, trading two prospects for Jeremy Hellickson before trading him away a year later.

This one looks more favorable. Didi Gregorius had been acquired two years prior, but didn't hit well enough to beat Chris Owings for the shortstop job. He spent much of 2014 at AAA and was a clear trade piece in a league with fewer good shortstops than in 2024. The Yankees needed one of those, having just witnessed the retirement tour of Derek Jeter, and targeted Gregorius early on. The Yankees were interested in a swap of Gregorius for Shane Greene, a 15th-round pick who had made fourteen strong starts in his 2014 MLB debut. The Diamondbacks were not interested in that swap, necessitating a three-team structure where Greene went to Detroit and Arizona got two younger prospects -- a near-ready pitcher named Robbie Ray and a younger shortstop named Domingo Leyba.

The Diamondbacks' side of the swap was seen as confusing given a discouraging 2014 from Ray where he struggled to strike out MLB hitters, but it sure seems that Dave Stewart made the right call. After a couple of good starts, Greene became a calamitous starter and then transitioned to become a hyper-volatile reliever instead. Domingo Leyba never amounted to much, but Robbie Ray became a frequently-dominant starter whose past strikeout concerns seem laughable today.

Of course, we don't need to mention that Ray left Arizona via trade during a career-worst 2020 season, immediately rebounding to win a Cy Young the next year. At least this was a three-team trade where the Diamondbacks traded FOR a future Cy Young winner, rather than yet another in which they traded AWAY a future Cy Young winner.

I wrote a (much) longer discussion of this trade and a couple of others from slightly over ten years ago at Trades Ten Years Later, my self-explanatory Substack. We'll discuss the Shelby Miller trade on December 9, 2025 if you want to unsubscribe before then.

Mike Morgan

Position: Pitcher

Bats: Right • Throws: Right

6-3, 195lb

Born: October 8, 1959 in Tulare, CA

Draft: Drafted by the Oakland Athletics in the 1st round (4th) of the 1978 MLB June Amateur Draft from Valley HS (Las Vegas, NV).

January 14, 2000: Signed as a Free Agent with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

2000: 0.6 WAR 5-5 W-L 5 Saves 40 BB 56 K

2001: 0.3 WAR 1-0 W-L 0 Saves 17 BB 24 K

November 19, 2001: Granted Free Agency.

January 3, 2002: Signed as a Free Agent with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

2002: -0.1 WAR 1-1 W-L 0 Saves 9 BB 13 K

Arizona Totals: 0.8 WAR 7-6 W-L 5 Saves 66 BB 93 K

Played for the A's, Yankees, Mariners, Orioles, Dodgers, Cubs, Cardinals, Reds, Twins, Rangers and Diamondbacks

22 Years: 28.7 WAR 141-186 W-L 8 Saves 938 BB 1403 K

Hello Snek bros,

I am finally back with more concrete information on next years pool suite. We have submitted a priority list of 10 games, all on Saturday and Sunday throughout next season and are waiting to hear back from my Advantage Rep.

I should have a game and date by 12/10. Once we are given a game, we will have 2 days to submit payment to reserve the suite.

Tickets will be $250 per person. There will be 35 tickets and currently 24 are available (some Redditors that were apart of the previous season’s suite have chosen to be grandfathered in.)

Payment will be needed by 12/10. Payment ASAP is preferred. No hold and first come, first serve.

If, there is enough interest, I may attempt to reserve a second suite, but that would require 33 more people who are also cash ready.

If you are interested, you may send me a PM or chat message, so I can take your info. I will update this thread once I have been given a game and date.

I’m at work, so there may be a delay in responding, but I will go in the order I receive each message.

Go Dbacks!

Edit:

There are now only 8 slots left available!

Edit 2:

Pool Suite is now filled. I will be making a list for a second game. Not sure if I can fill it, but there still is a lot of interest. If you are interested PM me and I will take down your info. If the list does fill you must be cash ready by next week.

Alex Bregman to the Diamondbacks confirmed

Ballpark Season Pass: I’m thinking of buying 2 season passes for my significant other and I as we visited chase field very often last season. I was reading the terms and it says each pass has a guest pass available. Should i buy one season pass and pay for the guest pass every time we go, or would buying 2 season passes be the better option? TIA :)

Is a platoon DH the best use of resources? Are there better candidates for the money (~ $13M)

Anyone else still in the same boat? We've tried everything. Every device in the house, using data instead of wifi, incognito tabs, VPN, different payment methods, nothing will work. Just getting an error message. We've contacted the Dbacks and they have not been much help. Said they would call back if anything changed, but nothing. We just can't get to the bottom of what the issue is. We've bought this pass the last 2 seasons without any issues.

I believe 2024 should be treated the same as 2020 considering deferals and an easy playoff run. I don't mean to sound like a salty fan, but as a fan of baseball it just makes my blood boil that they can bend the rules and win it all with a superstar involved with a gambling scandal.

seriously, it's getting old. I hate the dodgers, we all do. but complaining about their deferred contracts isn't going to do anything. we play them for ten games next year. 10/162. 6% of our games. we can still win next year, it's not the end of the world. also with their signing of Blake snell, we will face him probably 2 times next year. and our team like to upset good dodger pitchers. let's focus on our own team. snakes alive.

Hello to all the Diamondback fans on this /sub! I'm stopping by with a question. First, the Atlanta Braves is my favorite team and I also like the Arizona Diamondbacks. What's up with Jordan Montgomery? And most specifically, do y'all expect the team will eat some of his salary if he's traded? If so, how much?

Ken Kendricks said signing him was a "horrible decision" and I agree. I can't name another Arizona player who disappointed at such scale. Maybe Archie Bradley? Early 2025 projections say Montgomery will be better than '24. I'd like to believe in those numbers. He's owed a lot of $ and these projections definitely don't believe that he's worth his salary. The albatross is around his neck. I strongly believe that he cost the Diamondbacks a shot at '24 postseason. He didn't do it alone but he was the best at it.

As a Braves fan, I'm looking to kick the tires on Montgomery. If the Braves can't re-sign Charlie Morton I hope they'll acquire a SP that's reliable, a lefty and on an affordable and shorter-length contract. Squinting hard, maybe Montgomery's that guy. If Morton re-signs then there's no way I want Montgomery.

I'm thinking Arizona pays $7-10 million in a straight up salary dump trade.

I bought the the Ballpark pass and I know parking and riding the light rail is an option for every home game but is there a like an all year parking pass I can potentially buy? Or is that only for Advantage Members?

Christian Walker is not coming back, that seems pretty certain. The popular Goldschmidt idea seems unlikely now. so who do you want? We finally fix our third base problem and now a position we always have great players at is a hole.

Jon Jay

Position: Outfielder

Bats: Left • Throws: Left

5-11, 200lb

Born: March 15, 1985 in Miami, FL

Drafted by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 2nd round of the 2006 MLB June Amateur Draft from University of Miami (FL)

June 6, 2018: Traded by the Kansas City Royals to the Arizona Diamondbacks for Elvis Luciano and Gabe Speier.

2018: -0.3 WAR 84 games 2 HR 22 RBI .235 AVG .629 OPS

October 29, 2018: Granted Free Agency.

February 3, 2020: Signed as a Free Agent with the Arizona Diamondbacks.

2020: -0.5 WAR 18 games 1 HR 4 RBI .160 AVG .451 OPS

October 28, 2020: Granted Free Agency.

Arizona Totals: -0.7 WAR 102 games 3 HR 26 RBI .224 AVG .603 OPS

Played: LF-14, CF-15, RF-54, DH-1, PH-30

12 Seasons: 12.7 WAR 1201 games 37 HR 341 RBI .283 AVG .721 OPS

Played for: Cardinals, Padres, Cubs, Royals, Diamondbacks, White Sox and Angels

After I put in all of my information it consistently gives me an error message, I’ve tried a couple of different cards.

I have a feeling it has to do with the billing address line, it won’t let me put in the city/state. It keeps defaulting to just my street address.

https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2024/11/diamondbacks-to-add-wellington-cepeda-to-coaching-staff.html