The Journey Thus Far...
What a ride it's been, Snakes fans! 110 losses in 2021. Signs of life at the end of 2022. Hopes of contention on Opening Day 2023. Holding and losing the division lead. 6th seed. Series sweeps. Winning the N.L. Pennant. World Series baseball in Phoenix... The story of the 2023 Diamondbacks is an underdog story of underdog stories. Fangraphs gave the Snakes a 15.8% chance of making the postseason, and a 0.5% chance of winning the whole thing. Certainly, we had higher chances than some, but not most. In the last week of the season, ESPN pitted them 12th in their power rankings, two spots above the last eventual playoff team, the Miami Marlins. At every stage of the playoffs, nearly every expert analyst picked them to lose their series. I struggle to find even one mainstream talking head who believed in them. And let's not fool ourselves; none of us thought we'd be here at the start of the year. Once we punched our ticket to the playoffs there was always a chance, but it was...