arizona high school sports association
Milestones
Founded in 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona
Home Field
 • Chase Field (1998-present) also known as Bank One baseball stadium (the BOB) (1998-2005).
Affiliations
 • National League (1998-present)
 • Western Division (1998 to present)
Championship Success
World Series Champions of -1: 2001
World Series Appearances -1: 2001
LCS Appearances – 2: 2001, 2007
Division of the National League West titles -4
1999, 2001, 2002 and 2007
Wild Cards – None
Team Colors: Arizona Diamond Back team colors are sand, Sedona Red and Black
The Arizona Diamond is an American professional baseball team established in 1998 in Phoenix, Arizona. They are members of the Western Division of Major League Baseball's National League. Phoenix became the 9th largest U.S. city in 1990 due to relocation of the warm population especially in the states of the Midwest and Northeast. Furthermore, there was relocating from sunny California. The demand for professional team National League approached the region, as baseball fans grew in strength. Calangelo Jerry took the first step to the creation of Arizona Baseball Inc. His experience as majority owner of NBA team the Phoenix Suns was useful and in 1995 was held the "name the team" contest. The first prize was a season ticket for life. The winning option was Diamond Back, the name of a rattlesnake, common in Arizona. This snake five feet long can inject a significant amount of venom, when strikes. The team is nicknamed D-backs and snakes. The team logo is red and a black triangle above the script Diamondbacks purple. Colangelo's group received the franchise in 1995 to play throughout the 1998 season with Tampa Bay Devil Rays (St. Petersburg). The grounds of are the fields of Chase, which were formerly known as Bank One Ballpark (aka The BOB) and has a retractable roof again.
The team played its first season in 1998 with the first game in March Rookies 31.1998 against Colorado before a crowd of 50,179 filled. He lost the match by 2-9. The Arizona Diamondbacks won their first World Series title in 2001, the youngest franchise to do so. Also in the first five seasons he also won three division titles. The Arizona Diamondbacks won the NL West on four occasions in 1999, 2001, 2002 and 2007. The number of retirees is 42, Jack Robinson, who was retired by Major League Baseball. In 2007, Bob Melvin, their manager, won the Manager of the year. PD Jose Valverde won the Fireman Award in 2007. LHP Randy Johnson won four Cy Young in 1999, 2000, 2001 and 2002, and Brandon Webb High Level Group in 2006. In 2006, Craig Consell 2B won the LCS MVP. During 2001, the team won the World Series, LHP Randy PD Johnson and Curt Schilling won the World Series MVP. The other distinguished achievement do not include batters 5/18/2004 by Randy Johnson (prefect) and Cycle Hitters by Luis González (7/5/2000), Greg Collbrunn (9/18/2002) and Stephen Drew (9/1/2008).
The Arizona Diamondbacks' best season was 1999 with the count at 100-62 and the worst season 51-111 count in 2004. The change of hands of property to Ken Kendrick, Jason Ellis, Paul Castillo in 2004 due to declining performance of the team. The team manager is Bob Melvin since 2005. They have had four managers in 11 seasons to date; Buck Showlater from1998-2000, Bob Brenley 2001-2004, Al Pedrique in 2004 and Bob Melvin, 2005-Present
The Mascot is D. Baxter the bobcat. Rating Pavilion sun can provide about 35 guests the opportunity to see the work of diamond while enjoying the sources, the pool or hot tub. The computer has a TV tie up with Fox Sports Net Arizona and MAS (Spanish), the radio KTAR (620 AM): KSUN (1400 AM)
After the 2004 season, the Diamond Back Wally hired to be the manager, but dismissed him within 10 days due to legal problems and irregularities. Bob Melvin, the new manager and became the team spent heavily on free agents to rebuild. The Arizona Diamondbacks signed Royce Clayton, SS, 3B Troy Glaus, Russ P Otis and Craig Counsell 2B. Casey Fossum exchanged for Jose Cruz Jr., Randy Johnson for Javier Vazquez, Brad Halsey and Dioner Navarro. Then recently negotiated acquired Dioner Navarro by Shawn Green. This helped the Diamondbacks to improve the report in 2005 by 26 games to 77-85.
For the 2007 season, Luis Gonzales, a bulwark diamond and fan favorite joined the rival Los Angeles Dodgers. Miguel Batista joined Marnier. Craig turned to his lawyer his hometown team the Brewers Milwaukee. But the season was relatively successful for the Arizona Diamondbacks with Tally 90-72, thanks to a young team of Connor Jackson, Brandon Webb, Carlos Quentin, Chris Young, Chad Tracy, Mark Reynolds and Stephen Drew. Rockets beat Colorado to secure a playoff position and also won the Western Division title and one in the series of National League Championship for the first time since 2001.
For 2008, the Arizona Diamondbacks traded Carlos Quentin for Chris Carter. They PD also acquired Dan Haren for six players. Dan Haren signed a 4 years of 44.75 million U.S. dollars. The veteran free agents, Tony Clark and Livan Hernandez not re-sign. Orlando Hudson underwent surgery after a collision with Brian McCann of the Atlanta Braves. Another important player was injured Eric Byrnes. Due to injury, the Diamondbacks trade C Wilkin Castillo and Micah Because Adam Dunn PD. Further away the World Series MVP David Eckstein acquired the second baseman to fill in Orlando Hudson. The season ended at 82-80 mark.
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