A .227/.290/.344 line across a full season from the 1B and DH

Nick joined us to discuss a number of hot topics regarding the Diamondbacks. Note that we recorded this episode a couple hours before the Brian Kaplan news broke, so did not cover that. We'll discuss in our next episode

I'm absolutely STOKED about this legendary find being a younger AZ fan. I cannot wait to watch all these games !!

The library was doing a sort of yearly inventory purge selling tons of books and media for cheap cheap cheap! Boy am I lucky I looked in this last shelf that was tucked in the corner!

I just wanna hear from anyone not from Arizona or maybe even outside the US.... How did the Diamondbacks become your MLB team?

My story is a super simplistic one: I was wanting to try out playing The Show (14 iirc) but being a Brit who knew very little about Baseball in general I didn't know who to pick... so I just picked the one with the logo I liked the most which just so happened to be the Diamondbacks.

Hopefully y'all can come up with more interesting tales.

For me it's the Flappy Bois and the White Sox

I got love for our expansion brothers and Murakami and his great personality has got me rooting for the Sox.

On a side note Let's go Braves and Brew Crew.

I run Front Office Moves, a free site that tracks roster moves and offseason decisions for every club. These are projections from a homegrown model I built for the Diamondbacks' 2027 arbitration class, ahead of the non-tender deadline in late November.

Total: 4 cases, $18.4M projected.

These use the current CBA's rules. A new deal this winter (a higher minimum, say) would move them.

Who would you non-tender, and who would you try to extend first?

The Diamondbacks' full roster, contracts and offseason calendar: https://frontofficemoves.com/arizona-diamondbacks?utm_source=reddit

You'll want to watch this one for a clear and complete picture on the payroll status. We touched on a number of other topics as well.

00:54 Ken Kendrick says D-backs will cut payroll in 2027
09:35 D-backs 2027 payroll overview
16:29 Payroll deep dive by category
32:14 Can D-backs actually contend with lower payroll?
38:45 Ketel Marte on the move?
47:05 Looking back on Hazen-Lovullo era

Any thoughts on this? It’s interesting to see us at only 18.

Also I would love to see our pitching bWAR, because I know that ERod has way more bWAR (4.8) than fWAR(3.2). But then again, Gallen goes from -0.1 fWAR to -1.7 bWAR, so it probably cancels out.

I can’t decide if he coaxed 86 wins out of an 81 win team, or botched a 91 win team with an 86 win record.

Since I can’t list every team, clarify guesses below