2025 Arizona Diamondbacks

2025 Arizona Diamondbacks / Franchise: Arizona Diamondbacks / BR Team Page[edit]

Record: 80-82, Finished 4th in NL Western Division (2025 NL)

Coaches: Jeff Banister, Wellington Cepeda, Travis Denker, Owen Dew, Brian Kaplan, Shaun Larkin, Joe Mather and Dave McKay

Ballpark: Chase Field

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The 2025 Arizona Diamondbacks had their work cut out for them at the start of the season, knowing that they were playing in a division in which the two top teams on paper - the Los Angeles Dodgers and the San Diego Padres - were locked in a virtual nuclear arms race to win the pennant, spending with no limit. However, the D-backs could console themselves with the fact that in an identical situation two years earlier, in 2023, they had managed to sneak into the postseason and then get hit at the right time to make it to the World Series. While their 2024 season may have looked like a major disappointment in comparison, in fact they had only missed the postseason because the New York Mets held a tiebreaker over them, and their 89 wins had been five more than the 84 they had achieved in 2023.

The Snakes managed to get off to a good start, going 16-14 in March and April, but May was a different story altogether as they were just 11-17 during the month and lost significant ground in the standings going from 4 games back after a win on May 1st, to 9 back at the end of the month. The highlight of these first few weeks came on April 26th when Eugenio Suarez became only the 19th player in major league history to hit four home runs in one game, doing so against the Atlanta Braves. Unfortunately, Suarez also became the third player to accomplish the feat in a losing cause, as the Braves prevailed, 8-7, in ten innings. Interestingly, the last hitter to have hit four homers in a game before Suarez was J.D. Martinez, also playing with Arizona, on September 4, 2017.

Arizona started the month of June on a roll, defeating the Washington Nationals, 3-1, on June 1st, and then winning the first two games of a three-game series at Atlanta. In the series finale on June 5th, they were down 6-0 after three innings and 9-3 after seven. They entered the top of the 9th trailing by six runs, 10-4, and the franchise record in such a situation was 0-419; their win probability was measured at 0,1% - the lowest possible number - and would have gone down lower had it been possible when Suarez struck out leading off the inning. After that, however, they staged the greatest comeback in franchise history, with Lourdes Gurriel hit a solo homer, Alek Thomas a two-run shot, and Ketel Marte and Ildemaro Vargas adding run-scoring singles. That brough back Suarez, who hit a two-run double off closer Raisel Iglesias, putting the Diamondbacks ahead, 11-10. Iglesias had also been the victim of Suarez's fourth homer on April 26th. Shelby Miller then pitched a scoreless bottom of the 9th to record his 6th save of the season.

The Diamondbacks set a major league record on August 23rd when Jake Woodford recorded his first save of the season and of his career in a 10-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds. He thereby became the 15th D-Backs pitcher to earn a save that season, setting a new major league record. That came after nominal closer Miller had been traded to the Milwaukee Brewers at the trading deadline, and the pitcher they had hoped to see get most of the save opportunites, A.J. Puk, had only appeared in 8 games due to injuries. Shelby was not the only player dealt at the deadline, as Suarez was sent away, going to the Seattle Mariners in return for three prospects, and 1B Josh Naylor, DH Randal Grichuk and P Merrill Kelly had also been given new homes at that time.

Awards and Honors[edit]

All-Stars: Corbin Carroll, Ketel Marte and Eugenio Suarez
NL Silver Slugger Award: Corbin Carroll (OF), Ketel Marte (2B) and Geraldo Perdomo (SS)

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