11 Reasons to be Pessimistic in Arizona

if we lose less than 100 games this year.

Dbacks record on 5/12/2009: 13-21
5/12/2004: 14-19
record this year: 14-20

EJ’s HR/FB will go down. And the system actually has a couple ’pen arms we could try, albeit two of them (Buckner, Collmenter) are starters. And Valdez could go there if/when Webb/Benson returns.

Also, if done would that be better than what is there now?

Nothing like sabermetrics worship based on one month worth of data to make us abandon all hope.

love the pic, Jim.

start handing out DFA’s like they were candy. Josh Byrnes should say “I’m here to chew bubblegum and hand out DFA’s and I just ran out of bubblegum.”

Get hot and start hitting, so we can deal one. And maybe just mabye, get a reliever who can throw more than a game.

To me, our offense did ok last night..They got it within 1, and by all means with heart of order up next, could have tied it up or better. But then suck happened.

Is Zevada still dealing with forearm stiffness? i dotn care if he is not doing well in AAA if so, he has faced MLB hitters and been good. Give him a chance, a new look.

Listen, one move can correct the tailspin we are on. Which player was sent down (my favorite player by the way) right before our pitiful losing streak began? That would be Parra. Get him back up ASAP.

Isn’t that bad, it’s just that there’s no one that close to being ready, and anyone who is ready is just not going to make that much of an impact. Let’s use left field and the starting rotation for example. Marc krauss is tearing up hi a(1.000 OPS right now, 800+ ops in his debut season), and will probably be in mobile by the end of the year. He might get a cup of coffee if he continues to tear it up all season, including after a promotion. But that would be a very aggressive approach for the dbacks to take. I think he’ll be in the big leagues by the end of next year, especially if we continue to get poor offensive production from left field. (personally i think Conor will start heating up soon)

For a different example, I’ll use starting pitching as an example. Jarrod parker would be ready this year if it weren’t for tommy john surgery. He’ll be in the rotation by the end of next year, guaranteed.

Wes roemer has a 1.91 ERA in mobile with a 36:7 K;BB ratio, with two of those walks being intentional, although he has hit three batters. He’s probably doing the best out of any pitcher in the minors right now.. He might warrant a shot in the big leagues right now.

Should have one up by the end of the week.

Well, except for the key things it needs like power, water and transportation.
What a joke, my apologies.
vr, Xei

One or two games into the Brew Crews series, hence at least 4 loses without him.

Growing up here in Phoenix in the fifties, the Indians in far away Tucson were my team and thru them I learned to be a Yankee hater and to accept that the Indians could always rip defeat from the jaws of winning. To this day I cannot see Willy Mays without a silent curse of his catch in 1954.
So now it is the D-backs, my replacement for the Indians. But sadly except for the uniforms I feel like I’m still watching the tribe try and be the worst they can be.
I remember quite a few comments about the depth of our minor league system, what happened to that?
Yet now these kids from the minors will not be ready until 2012, nuts, I’ll be dead and gone by the time the D-backs are ever a contender again.
But just like being an Indian fan, I’ll keep going to the games once a month, keep watching on the tube, keep wondering why these guys who are paid really big money cannot remember the simple things I was teaching to my JV baseball team at the high school up to a few years ago.
My question to Mr. Byrnes is "Why did you hire a young guy with no experience to run your team, why did you let a guy like Jim Tracy go by?

Is an excellent manager…Being I am also a Rockies fan (ever since their inception in 1993), like you, JV Co, I have watched my team suffer nonstop. The Rockies had some very dark days and I sometimes wondered why I kept on supporting them. The answer? I am a diehard and continue to think optimistically. It was only a matter of time and many changes later did the Rockies do anything worthwhile, then found themselves in their first-ever World Series. I equate this with the DBacks, as we’ve seen many dark days with this team (2004 was living proof of this, as well as what’s currently going on with the team). It may take drastic changes to get this team firing on all 4 cylinders again, but if that’s the case then they must do what is necessary to get this team jelling like a team again

But every now and then they show a spark

I don’t wanna be pessimistic!

likes to bounce the pitch off of the dirt about one foot in front of the plate.

Fire the bullpen coach just to send a message.

Have crappy pitching. Their strongest link is their offense. They have guys who can actually hit and bring in runners. We may have some who can hit but cannot bring the runners home.

Since you asked why the Dodgers are almost as bad as us

Now, when it comes to HornetsCF’s post, he has a point. There’s only so much Kendricks will take before he decides it’s time to clean house and start anew. Maybe Josh and his whipping boy AJ will BOTH be out the door before the All Star Break if not sooner…nobody knows what will happen.

I have an idea for a pitcher…why don’t we go steal Brian Anderson away from the Royals’s AAA team? He’s an outfielder also, but they are trying him back in his ORIGINAL position, pitcher. I got to see him pitch and play outfield when he played at U of A ;)