If you said in March that the Diamondbacks’ best reliever after two months was going to be Joe Mantiply, I would have been unhappy with the direction of the team. Here we are after 51 games in which the team has played surprisingly competent baseball to the record of 25-26, in large part due to Mantiply’s contributions. The 31-year-old journeyman reliever seems to have found a long term home with the Arizona Diamondbacks thanks to a near full year of surprisingly strong pitching and has entrenched himself as one of the most trusted arms in the bullpen in 2022.
Joe Mantiply has quietly become one of the most reliable left-handed relievers in baseball
