2024 Diamondbacks Reviews #27: Yilber Diaz

2024 by the Numbers:

Rating: 5.39

2024 Stats: 7 G, 28.1 IP, 3.81 ERA, 4.47 FIP, 1.376 WHIP, 111 ERA+, 0.3 bWAR, 0.1 fWAR

Date of Birth: August 19, 2000

2024 Earnings: $740,000 (via Spotrac)

2025 Status: Pre-Arbitration, 2 minor league options

I love normal distributionsIntroduction

There has been an interesting theme underlying the last several years of the Mike Hazen administration’s pitching staffs: high-upside arms squeezed between the rotation and the bullpen. Some of the recent victims of this trend include Bryce Jarvis, Drey Jameson, and Tommy Henry over just the last two-plus seasons. These are pitchers who have mostly (80% or more) been treated as starters in the minors and have enough of…