For a team which had the highest team ERA of any Major League club last season, the pitching priority for the Arizona Diamondbacks seems obvious. Finishing with a combined 5.09 runs per nine innings, and just ahead of the Minnesota Twins’ 5.08, the need to solve pitching maladies is beyond apparent.
Beginning with starters, the rotation at the end of the season seemed a patch-quit of heightened expectations. This spring, Archie Bradley, one potential starter on the bubble, told Venom Strikes the expectation of last season was “outrageous.” That had to do with the celebrated signing of Zack Greinke, a very hyped trade to bring Shelby Miller to form a solid one-two punch with Greinke at the top of the rotation and an offense noted for generating runs.