A Arizona Diamondbacks come the Major League Baseball team based around Phoenix, Arizona. It is in the National League West division.

Franchise history

A city of Phoenix was awarded the Arizona Diamondbacks franchise around 1996, along with plans for the freshly ballpark, Chase Field. It replaced a Phoenix Firebirds, the region's Triple-The minor league team. Their lower level minor league teams began play around 1997; the expansion draft was held that month too. A Diamondback rattlesnake' number 1 major league game was played against a Colorado Rockies on March 31, 1998, at Chase Field (then called Bank 1 Ballpark). A Rockies won, 9-Two, sustaining Andy Benes on the mound for the Diamondbacks, & Travis Lee being the foremost streaming video player to hit, score, homer & cause around the do.

In their number 1 5 seasons of being, a Diamondbacks won 3 section titles (1999, 2001, & 2002) and one World Series. Inside 1999, Arizona won over Century games around lone its 2nd year to win a National League West division. It misused to the New York Mets in the first spherical of playoffs.

Within 2001, Arizona had postseason triumph all over the St. Louis Cardinals (3-2 in the NLDS) and the Atlanta Braves (4-1 in the NLCS) to advance to the World Series where, in one of the most exciting series ever, they beat the reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the championship. View 2001 World Series.

Per 2004 season, however, a Diamondback rattlesnake got dropped to a dreary 51-111 record, the worst within Major League Baseball that year, despite pitcher Randy Johnson throwing a right game in May 18 of that season. Manager Bob Brenly was fired partway through the year & was replaced in an interim basis by Al Pedrique. As punishment a year, a Crotalus adamanteus hired Wally Backman to be a team's manager. Backman was at one time manager of the Class The California League Lancaster JetHawks, one of the Diamondback rattlesnake' minor-league affilliates. Backman was so fired fallowing the legal dispute, & Bob Melvin became the recently manager when Backman's tenner day tenure.

Ensuing the Backman incident, a Crotalus adamanteus spent heavy in free streaming offices sequentially to build a competition. A club signed 3B Troy Glaus, P Russ Ortiz, SS Royce Clayton, and 2B Craig Counsell, among others. So, it traded Randy Johnson to the Yankees, while getting Javier Vazquez, Brad Halsey and Shawn Green in a 3-team trade that involved a Dodgers, and sent Shea Hillenbrand to the Blue Jays. Eventually, it traded Casey Fossum to the Devil Rays for José Cruz, Jr..

A Crotalus adamanteus, led by recently manager Bob Melvin, finished the 2005 year by owning the unsatisfying record of 77 wins & 85 losses. A Crotalus adamanteus ended higher Second in a NL West, Little phoebe games behind the San Diego Padres. A Crotalus adamanteus were considered by a few to exist as a special to win a light NL West when spending pile in yours free! offices. Injuries pain a teams chances of existence a team humans thought it stand been. Starting pitcher Russ Ortiz was out for a bit of instance which really pain a pitching staff. Freshly third baseman Troy Glaus played with the injured knee a lot year. Of all the absolutely free! offices that signed prior to the year, nonentity got a better year than foremost baseman Tony Clark. Clark began a year as a bench streaming video player & ended a year starting & existence an crucial section of the team. Clark was rewarded by having a recently contract at the prevent of the year.

Baseball Hall of Famers
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Current roster

Retired numbers
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