Introduction
There’s no real way to sugarcoat it, it was another disappointing season for the D-Backs. They narrowly missed the playoffs for a consecutive season and even failed to extend their streak of winning seasons. I am eternally grateful and amazed that the team was able to pick themselves up after the gutting that the Trade Deadline represented to give us meaningful baseball through most of September, but that feeling is poor consolation for the expectations this team had at the beginning of the season. There’s plenty of consternation going around the fanbase and the blame game is in full effect. We’ll obviously never have a definitive answer why this season resulted the way it did, but we have to hope that people with more information and wherewithal are currently examining the r