Paul Goldschmidt

Good pitching stops good hitting. The breaks tend to even out. Ninety percent of baseball is half mental.Those three sentences represent three baseball-related category quotes; the first is generally true, since the very best major league hitters fail to get a base hit seven out of every ten times they go to the plate or do not reach base six out of ten, giving any random major league pitcher an advantage over any random major league hitter. Even the great Ted Williams had a lifetime OBP (.482) of under 500. The second…

Arizona Diamondbacks 2017 Preview The expectations for the 2016 Diamondbacks were sky high, as then-general manager Dave Stewart went all-in on the season by cashing in trade chips like former number one overall pick Dansby Swanson to acquire what was considered to be proven veteran talent, such as Atlanta Braves right-hander Shelby Miller. An influx of cash around major league baseball also allowed a typically conservative financial organization to throw a pile of money at the top free agent pitcher on the market, Zach…