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Making Sense of the D-Backs' Curious Madison Bumgarner Signing

The Diamondbacks are a modern baseball Rorschach test: Whatever pattern you see in their last year could say more about you than it does about them. (This is not a statement on their uniforms.)

Maybe you saw the Diamondbacks in a clear reload—headlined by deals to move their biggest names. Arizona had traded away Paul Goldschmidt, and seven months later, Zack Greinke. In the winter between, there were no flashy additions, and at the start of this offseason, there were few rumors of one to come. (Yet there were rumors of a trade for staff backbone Robbie Ray, which, naturally, only felt more like a rebuild.