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Ironic! From Greinke of the Dodgers to MadBum of the Giants as our star pitchers.

The Valley of the Sun is indeed the "suburbs of California", as they used to say.

But we'll take the hand-me-downs! It's part of our low cost of living in the Valley.
 
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Madison Bumgarner makes another opening day start Friday, this time with #Dbacks. "We are expecting exactly what we thought going into the season. We're going to rely on him a lot this year. We're not going to be able to get where we want to go without him this year."
 

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Madison Bumgarner makes another opening day start Friday, this time with #Dbacks. "We are expecting exactly what we thought going into the season. We're going to rely on him a lot this year. We're not going to be able to get where we want to go without him this year."


Proving quite prophetic.
 

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The question now is this: Will he ever record a win in a D-Backs uniform?
 

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The question now is this: Will he ever record a win in a D-Backs uniform?

Yes but he is either hurt or fell off the cliff velocity wise so I fear those wins we all expected may not materialize anywhere close to expectations
 
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Yes but he is either hurt or fell off the cliff velocity wise so I fear those subs we all elected may not materialize anywhere close to expectations
Where was our Scouting Department?
 

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Yes but he is either hurt or fell off the cliff velocity wise so I fear those wins we all expected may not materialize anywhere close to expectations

Precisely what happened with Shelby Miller, and then when he tried to adjust, disaster REALLY struck.
 

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Interesting choice and you almost wonder why Hazen didn't go that route. Duplantier hurt or ineffective in the scrimmages? Very odd.
Probably because Duplantier failed in his earlier chances.

Because he was brought up as a successful starter, but
had to adjust to sitting on-call in the bullpen, and failed.

Just as previously mentioned about Cron and now Varsho.

The manager doesn't know how to, or care to, develop
young talent.

I'll remind you-all about Mike D'Antoni's stupid quote
when he was coaching the SSOL Suns and their 7.5-man
rotations, "It is not my job to develop young players."

I wish that Lovullo would come out and say it, too. It
would hasten his departure.
 
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I wonder how much of it is the frustration of playing on a team
that has weak starting and relief pitchers, hitters and defense.

And I think he's astute enough to see, especially now following
the fire sale, that the problem is management.

Did the Giants ever go on a 2 & 17 "run"? But, even before, he
was not getting support.
 

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