The Arizona Diamondbacks have been the butt of a lot of jokes around baseball for the past few years, and for good reason. There was the ridiculous Shelby Miller trade (and the Toukki Toussaint one before that). They gave Zack Greinke a Brinks truck full of money just before introducing the worst uniforms in baseball. Chief Baseball Office Tony LaRussa barged his way into an opposing broadcast at one point like he was arguing with Twitter eggs. ESPN’s Keith Law wrote a scathing review of the Dave Stewart regime, calling them a “laughingstock.”
Those days might be over.