On MLB.com yesterday, they asked their 30 team reporters each to select the best free-agent signing in their franchise’s history. Steve Gilbert must have spent all of seconds figuring out the answer to that question for the Diamondbacks: it is, far and away, Randy Johnson joining the team in 1998. [Gilbert also mentions Steve Finley’s deal, and an honorable not-free-agent deal, Paul Goldschmidt’s contract extension, both of which paid off handsomely for the team] But the team’s communication VP, Josh Rawitch, then lobbed out this potentially interesting question on Twitter.
Was Randy Johnson the best free-agent signing in baseball history?
