With Spring Training fast approaching, MLB.com will take a look at a different aspect of this year's D-backs squad each day this week. Today's topic: The perfect season
PHOENIX -- Things seldom go exactly to plan for a team over a 162-game schedule, but if things were to break just right for the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2017, what would that look like?
For one thing, it would look like the complete opposite of 2016, when the D-backs stumbled out of the gate and finished with a 69-93 record that cost manager Chip Hale and GM Dave Stewart their jobs and Tony La Russa his title as chief baseball officer.