Diamondbacks fandom has a very different set of expectations as we head toward Opening Day 2017, compared to the same situation last year. Then, we had “won the off-season” with our signing of Zack Greinke and a good number of pundits (7 of 31 in this ESPN survey, for instance) predicted Arizona would win the NL West. It didn’t quite work out. Our new pitchers failed to deliver, most of the existing ones fell apart, and it took a final series sweep of the Padres for the D-backs to escape the division’s cellar, as they finished 22 games back of the Dodgers.
Arizona Diamondbacks 2017 Preview: How did we get here?
