Yes, we know that this is taking a while!

As many of you know, we here at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the 50 of each major North American sports team.  That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists out and we always consistently look to update them when we can and based on necessity.  As such, we are very happy to present our post 2022/23 revision of our top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks.

As for all of our top 50 players in baseball we look at the following:

1.  Advanced Statistics.

2.  Traditional statistics and how they finished in Major League Baseball.

3.  Playoff accomplishments.

4.  Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles not reflected in a stat sheet.

Last year, Arizona shocked the world by not only making the playoffs, but competing in the World Series, though they fell to the Texas Rangers in five Games.  The 2023 Season, gave us one new entrant and several elevations.

As always, we present our top five, which saw no changes:

1. Randy Johnson

2. Paul Goldschmidt

3. Brandon Webb

4. Curt Schilling

5. Luis Gonzalez

You can find the entire list here.

Infielder, Ketel Marte, continued his rise, inching up one spot #6.

Starting Pitcher, Zac Gallen, climbed to #12 from #21.

Of note, Infielder, Nick Ahmed, who was released in August, actually fell a spot to #19.

First Baseman, Christian Walker, rose from #31 to #22.

Another Starting Pitcher, Merrill Kelly, jumped from #36 to #23.

The lone new entrant is the 2023 National League Rookie of the Year, Corbin Carroll, who debuts at #38.

Relief Pitcher, Andrew Chafin, who returned as a Free Agent, only to be traded late in the season to Milwaukee, did enough to move up two spots to #42.

We thank you for your continued support for our lists on Notinhalloffame.com.

The process continues.

We here are Notinhalloffame.com have plans to create our own set of post-season awards, which we will look back and retroactively present from 1901 on.  That will take a while, but it has never stopped us before!

Our awards are not be league specific.

Now it is time for our 2021 positional awards.

We will be awarding a positional player of the year, but not only that, offer up the runner-up and second runner-up, meaning that we will have First, Second and Third All-MLB players.

Let’s work our way around the diamond and award the best of the best in Baseball!

Please note that with Middle Relievers, we will be naming a Middle Reliever of the Year, three Second Team and three Third Team Middle Relievers.  

Middle Reliever of the Year (First Team All-MLB): Jonathan Loaisiga, New York Yankees.  3.3 bWAR, 2.4 fWAR, 9-4 Record, 18 Holds, 2.17 ERA, 57 Games, 70.2 IP, 69 SO, 4.31 SO/BB, 1.018 WHIP, 2.58 FIP.

Loaisiga won this narrowly, and we could have made cases (and did) for any of the Middle Relievers we named to the Second Team.  The Nicaraguan reliever was sixth this season in the AL in WPA and third in cWPA.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Blake Treinen, Los Angeles Dodgers.  2.4 bWAR, 1.8 fWAR, 6-5 Record, 32 Holds, 1.99 ERA, 72 Games, 72.1 IP, 85 SO, 3.40 SO/BB, 0.982 WHIP, 2.88 FIP.

Treinen led the NL in Holds, and was the closest in our eyes to supplanting Loaisiga.  Treinen’s value as the Dodgers’ top bullpen Pitcher was shown by the Dodgers success, and he finished tenth in NL in cWPA.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Andrew Chafin, Chicago Cubs & Oakland Athletics.  2.9 bWAR, 1.4 fWAR, 2-4 Record, 22 Holds, 1.83 ERA, 71 Games, 68.2 IP, 64 SO, 3.37 SO/BB, 0.932 WHIP, 2.98 FIP.

Chafin was one of the many Cubs stars jettisoned off, and although the team he landed in, Oakland, did not make the playoffs, Chafin did his job and had the best season of his eight-year career.

Second Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Chad Green, New York Yankees.  2.4 bWAR, 1.6 fWAR, 10-7 Record, 18 Holds, 3.12 ERA, 71 Games, 83.2 IP, 99 SO, 5.82 SO/BB, 0.884 WHIP, 3.59 FIP.

Green gives the Yankees two All-MLB Middle Relievers, after recording his best year since 2017.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Garrett Whitlock, Boston Red Sox.  2.4 bWAR, 1.6 fWAR, 8-4 Record, 14 Holds, 1.96 ERA, 46 Games, 73.1 IP, 81 SO, 4.76 SO/BB, 1.205 WHIP, 2.84 FIP.

The Red Sox rookie had a nice debut, quickly becoming the best middle reliever on the team.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Tyler Rogers, San Francisco Giants.  2.4 bWAR, 1.3 fWAR, 7-1 Record, 31 Holds, 2.22 ERA, 80 Games, 81.0 IP, 81 SO, 4.23 SO/BB, 1.074 WHIP, 3.28 FIP.

Rogers just qualified, as he did finish 18 Games with 13 Saves, but was not the finisher in 75% of his Games.  Notably, this is the second year in a row that Rogers led the NL in Games Pitched.  Rogers also finished eighth in WPA.

Third Team All-MLB Middle Reliever:  Luke Jackson, Atlanta Braves.  2.3 bWAR, 0.6 fWAR, 2-2 Record, 33 Holds, 1.98 ERA, 71 Games, 63.2 IP, 70 SO, 2.41 SO/BB, 1.162 WHIP, 3.66 FIP.

In his seventh year in the Majors, Jackson had his best year by far, proving to be one of the many potent arms in the Braves bullpen.

A star at Kent State, Andrew Chafin was a First Round Pick in 2011, and the Pitcher would first debut for the Diamondbacks in 2014, where he appeared and started in three Games.