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Wade Miley was with the Arizona Diamondbacks for the first four seasons of his career, and in his second season, he had his best season in baseball.  In that year, Miley who was still considered a rookie put up 16 Wins and went to the All-Star Game.  Miley was the runner-up for the Rookie of the Year to Bryce Harper.

Archie Bradley spent the first five-and-a-half seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks where he has been both a starter and a reliever.   Bradley is known mostly in baseball for his ample beard, which he had since he became relegated to the bullpen but overall (the beard and his role) has been a better fit for the Pitcher.  Bradley stayed with Arizona until he was dealt to the Cincinnati Reds during the 2020 Season.  Bradley had 28 Saves as a Diamondback.

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.

Chad Tracy played six seasons for the Arizona Diamondbacks and arguably he lands on this list based on the strength of his second and third season (2005 & 2006) where he was a 20 Home Run hitter.  Tracy’s best season was in 2005 where he had 27 Home Runs with a .308 Batting Average, which was good enough for seventh in the National League that year.  Unfortunately for Tracy he never came close to replicating his two good seasons with Arizona and would be relatively mediocre for the three years after.

Tracy had 654 Hits while batting .280 as a Diamondback.
Omar Daal had a couple of decent seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks.  In 1998 he only win 8 Games (with 12 Losses) but had a 2.88 ERA, which was good enough for fifth overall in the National League.  Daal had a much weaker ERA in 1999 but he did win 16 Games that year.

Daal had an overall Arizona record of 26 and 31 with 325 Strikeouts.
Josh Collmenter bounced back and forth from being a staring pitcher to a relief one.  Collmeneter would win 36 Games for the D-Backs and while he was never consider one of the top pitchers for Arizona during his stint there he was certainly one of the more recognizable ones with his signature over-the-top delivery.  Notably he was fifth in voting for the National League Rookie of the Year in 2011.

Collmeneter had a record of 36-33 with 460 Strikeouts with Arizona.
Aaron Hill had an up and down career in baseball and that was certainly reflected in his half-decade with the Diamondbacks.  Hill would suffer from multiple injuries during his time in Arizona but he would have one really food year in 2012 where he had 184 Hits, 26 Home Runs and batted .302.  The strength of that season and the accumulation of stats from the others land him on this list.

With the Diamondbacks, Hill had 512 Hits while batting .273.
Mark Reynolds was certainly adept at hitting Home Runs and as a Diamondback he hit 121 of them including a 44 Home Run campaign in 2009.  His power puts him on this list but his game was not multi-faceted and it came with a lot of deficiencies.    Reynolds struckout in more than one third of his plate appearances and he exceeded 200 three times with Arizona, all of which were National League leading.  His 223 whiffs in 2009 remain a single season record.  Reynolds also made a lot of errors, as he was a league leader in that twice as a D-Back.  Despite that his power game is strong enough to keep him on this list for a while.
A very good control Pitcher who would lead the National League in BB/9 in 1998, Brian Anderson was the second pick in the 1997 Expansion Draft and an original Arizona Diamondback.  Anderson would go 41-42 for Arizona predominantly as a Starting Pitcher and later was a member of the 2001 World Series Championship Team.
In 2001, Byung hyun Kim made history as the first Korean born player to win a World Series and though his performance in the Fall Classic was poor (0-1 with a 13.50 ERA), he was not a bystander in getting the team there.  Kim took over as the Diamondbacks closer that year and in 2002 he had his best regular season with 36 Saves (eight overall in the NL), a 2.04 ERA and his first and only trip to the All Star Game.  Kim would record 70 Saves for Arizona and will always be remembered in the desert for that submarine delivery.
Ian Kennedy had an interesting up and down career in the world of Major League Baseball but by far and wide the best season he ever had by far was in 2011.  That year Kennedy went 21 and 4 with a 2.88 Earned Run Average while finishing fourth in Cy Young voting.  He would secure 15 Wins the next year, but was traded during the following season to San Diego.

Kennedy returned in 2022, though had an awful year with a negative bWAR, and an ERA over five.  He left again, this time for Texas.

His record with Arizona was 48-34 with 661 Strikeouts.

In terms of baseball history, Jay Bell is probably better known for his time with the Pittsburgh Pirates where he was an All Star in 1993, but it was in Arizona (where he was an All-Star in 1999) where he would win the World Series.

Brad Ziegler never started a game for the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Actually he never started a game anywhere in the Majors. 

Damian Miller had a solid career in the Majors, where his best run occurred as a member of the Arizona Diamondbacks.  Miller was a workmanlike Catcher who was defensively sound and he would twice lead all National League Catchers in Range Factor per Game.  He was also named an All-Star in 2002.

A member of the Arizona Diamondbacks for only two years (the first two years of his Major League career) Ender Inciarte without a shadow of a doubt would show off increased statistical numbers after being traded to the Atlanta Braves.  While that is accurate, Inciarte was exemplary in his Diamondbacks tenure with his glove as he finished 5th and 4th overall in Defensive bWAR in those seasons.  While defense isn’t sexy, it was good enough to land him here on a franchise as young as the Arizona Diamondbacks.

In the first four seasons of Jose Valverde’s Major League career, he seemingly was fighting for the closers role with the Diamondbacks.  When he would win it, injuries would take it away or a slump might have cost him the role.  In that time frame the Dominican reliever who would become known as “Papa Grande” would accumulate 56 Saves.  That wasn’t bad, but it was in 2007 where he was the undisputed closer of the team where he did more than enough to land him on this list.

Robbie Ray was a starter for the Diamondbacks for five and a half seasons. During his first two seasons with the D-backs, Ray struck out many batters but gave up a considerable number of runs, resulting in losing records. However, 2017 was a significantly different story.

Jake Lamb played his first six-and-a-half seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he played mostly at Third Base.  Lamb became a starter in 2016, and in 2017, he was an All-Star, hammering 30 Home Runs with 105 Runs Batted In, both of which were career-highs.  Lamb slumped afterward, and he was released during the 2020 Season.  With the D-Backs had 84 Home Runs and 471 Hits.
Craig Counsell had a four year run for the Diamondbacks (2000-03) and while he was never really that close to being an All-Star the Shortstop did show decent Batting Average on occasion (he batted .275 and .282 in the two seasons where he had over 100 Hits for Arizona) and he had good defensive prowess.  Essentially, Counsell was best served as a utility infielder throughout his career but D-Back fans will always remember his performance in the 2001 NLCS where he was named the MVP of the series.  He would later help Arizona win their first World Series.

Counsell was traded to the Dodgers after 2003, but returned as a Free Agent in 2005 for another two years as a D-Back, where in '05 he had his best defensive season (3.5 Defensive bWAR) in his career.  Overall, Counsell had 611 Hits for the team.

Orlando Hudson would be traded to Arizona from the Toronto Blue Jays and the D-Backs were not disappointed with the defensive presence that he would bring to their infield.