Our All Time Top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks have been revised to reflect the 2024 Season
Yes, we know that this is taking a while!
As many of you know, we at Notinhalloffame.com are slowly generating the top 50 of each major North American sports team. That being said, we have existing Top 50 lists and consistently look to update them when necessary and based on necessity. As such, we are delighted to present our post-2024 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 the National League.
3. Playoff accomplishments.
4. Their overall impact on the team and other intangibles that are not reflected in a stat sheet.
Please note that our algorithm has changed, which yielded minor changes throughout the baseball lists.
Last year, the Diamondbacks had a good season, winning 89 Games, but they did not make the playoffs. As the team has only existed for 27 years, there is ample opportunity for new players to enter the list, which occurred in this cycle with three new entries.
As always, we present our top five, which saw a change based on the new structure:
3. Brandon Webb
You can find the entire list here.
Based on our new system, Gonzalez overtook Schilling for the #4 spot.
Ketel Marte, who finished third in MVP voting, remained at #6, as the chasm was too large to surpass Schilling at #5.
Zac Gallen, who went 14-6 last season, shot up to #7 from #12.
First Baseman Christian Walker advanced to #16 from #22.
Merrill Kelly, who missed a large part of last season, still moved up two spots to #21.
Corbin Carroll did not have a good follow-up to his 2023 Rookie of the Year award, but he still moved up significantly from #38 to #28.
The three debuts are Infielder Geraldo Perdomo at #42, Catcher Gabriel Moreno at #45, and Outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. at #49.
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Our All-Time Top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks have been revised to reflect the 2023 Season.
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:
3. Brandon Webb
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.
Our All-Time Top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks have been revised
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 the first revision of our top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks of all-time.
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 the National League.
This is the first revision since we put up this list after the 2018 Season.
The complete list can be found here, but as always we announce our top five in this article. They are:
3. Brandon Webb
We slightly altered one of our algorithms and that has led to some slight changes to past Diamondbacks. This altered the top five slightly, as Curt Schilling and Luis Gonzalez traded their fourth and fifth rank.
There were a few significant jumps. Zack Grienke, who was traded during the 2019 Season to Houston, rose from #10 to #6. Ketel Marte went from #44 to #13. This shocked us too, but again, we are reminded that a top five MVP season in a team as young as the Diamondbacks can do that. Starting Pitcher, Robbie Ray, moved from #20 to #16. Third Baseman, Jake Lamb, climbed from #30 to #26. Relief Pitcher, Archie Bradley went from #48 to #40.
We have several new entries. Nick Ahmed debuts at #20. While this seems like a seismic debut for the Shortstop, we erroneously left him off of our first list, of which he would have been on. Venezuelan Infielder, Eduardo Escobar makes his first appearance at #43. He joined the Diamondbacks during the 2018 season on a trade from Minnesota. Lefthanded Relief Pitcher, Andrew Chafin comes in at #44.
We welcome your input and commentsand as always, we thank you for your support.
6. Ketel Marte
As of this writing, Infielder Ketel Marte has completed seven seasons for the Diamondbacks and his versatility in the infield has made him a valuable commodity for the team. Marte made history as the first player in postseason history to have two triples in a game hit from both sides of the plate, which he accomplished in the 2017 National League Wildcard Game. In 2018, he would lead the NL in Triples. This was good, but he would break out in 2019, which was the necessary step needed to make him the face of the franchise.