Top 50 Arizona Diamondbacks
The city of Phoenix was awarded an expansion team in 1995 and the thriving desert city would see the Arizona Diamondbacks take the field in 1998. The Diamondbacks would immediately become competitive and in 1999 they would make the playoffs by winning their division. In 2001 they again made the playoffs and on the strength of Starting Pitchers Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling, they would win the 2001 World Series, which made them the youngest franchise to win the title.
The Diamondbacks would return to the playoffs the following season but would regress in the following years until they returned to the postseason in 2007 and again in 2011. They would later return to the World Series as a suprise entrant in 2023, but would not come away with the victory, falling to the Texas Rangers.
As this is a new team (relatively speaking) this list will be very fluid in the years to come and with Phoenix being a vibrant sports town we can see Arizona doing well in the years to come.
Note: Baseball lists are based on an amalgamation of tenure, traditional statistics, advanced statistics, playoff statistics, and post-season accolades.
This list is updated up until the end of the 2025 Season.
Going into this process we knew that Randy Johnson was likely going to be ranked number one. What we didn’t realize is just how wide that chasm was going to be between him and everyone else!
For nearly a decade, "Goldy" served as the quiet, relentless heartbeat of the Diamondbacks, transforming from an unheralded 8th-round draft pick into the greatest position player in franchise history. Bursting onto the scene in late 2011, he famously announced his arrival with a massive postseason grand slam that ignited the desert. By 2013, he had evolved into a full-blown supernova. That season remains a masterclass in offensive and defensive dominance: That season, he won the Hank Aaron Award, along with his first Gold Glove and Silver Slugger, while leading the NL in Home Runs (36), RBIs (125), and Slugging (.551),…
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Playing his entire career with the Diamondbacks, sinkerball specialist Brandon Webb had a rough start. In his second season in the Majors, Webb led the National League in Losses and Walks allowed. That was 2004. Two years later, Webb transformed himself into the best hurlerin the National League. Webb would win the National League Cy Young Award while leading the NL in Wins, FIP, and bWAR for Pitchers. This would be the first All-Star Game appearance but not the last. Webb remained in All-Star form in 2007 and 2008, and in both years he was the Cy Young Award runner-up. …
Luis Gonzalez was a good baseball player before he was traded to the Arizona Diamondbacks, but it was in the desert where he became an All-Star and the team’s premier offensive threat. Gonzalez’s 1999 debut season with the D-Backs saw him post career highs in Hits (206), and Batting Average (.336), and it would be his first of three .300/.400/.500 Slash Lines. It also marked the first of five consecutive RBI seasons. 2001 was, without a doubt, the best season of his career. “Gonzo” would blast 57 Home Runs with a Slash Line of .325/.429/.688 and finished third in MVP…
Curt Schilling did not spend a long time in Arizona (three and a half years) but nobody can dispute the impact that he had as a Diamondback.
What a pickup this became! The Diamondbacks traded for Ketel Marte before the 2017 offseason, and few people in Phoenix knew the star they were acquiring. They do now. Still a Diamondback at this writing, Marte became a cornerstone of the organization and will enter his tenth season in Arizona. The versatile infielder had some early franchise moments, becoming the first player in postseason history to have two triples in a game hit from both sides of the plate, which he accomplished in the 2017 National League Wildcard Game. In 2018, he would lead the NL in Triples. This was…
Zac Gallen came up through the St. Louis Cardinals system, but was traded to the Miami Marlins while he was still in the Minors. He would debut for Miami in June of 2019, but he was only a Marlin for seven Games before he was traded to the Diamondbacks at the Trading Deadline. Gallen finished the year 2-3 with a .289 ERA, and was cemented in the rotation going forward. In the COVID-19-shortened 2020, Gallen was one of the top hurlers in the NL, going 3-2 with a 2.75 ERA and 1.111 WHIP. He was ninth in Cy Young voting and a bright…
Zack Greinke was with the Arizona Diamondbacks for only three and a half years, but in that time, he showcased skills that helped him win the Cy Young Award as a Kansas City Royal in 2009. Arriving in 2016 as a Free Agent, Greinke was named an All-Star in 2017, where he also finished 4th in Cy Young voting. He repeated as an All-Star in 2018, and in '17 and ’18, he ranked in the top ten in the NL in bWAR for Pitchers and WHIP. Grienke was again an All-Star in 2019, but shortly afterward, he was traded to…
The signing of Steve Finley via free agency proved to be a fruitful one for the Arizona Diamondbacks, as the Outfielder would put forth some of his best offensive seasons playing in Arizona. The “Third Man of the Offensive Corps” of Arizona’s World Series offense, Finley would have two 30 Home Run seasons and three more 20 Home Run years for the Diamondbacks, and provided a respectable Batting Average and On Base Percentage. Finley represented Arizona twice in the All-Star Game and also won a pair of Gold Gloves there. Perhaps most significantly in this ranking is Finley's postseason performance…
With a wide variety of pitches, Dan Haren used equal parts skill and craftiness to carve out an effective thirteen-year career in Major League Baseball, the best of which was spent with the Diamondbacks. While Haren’s rank may seem high for someone who only played two full seasons and a large chunk of a third, it was what he accomplished in those two full seasons that helped to warrant him such a high rank. In both of those years, Haren would lead the National League in SO/BB and would finish fourth in bWAR for Pitchers. He was also the league…
Justin Upton was the number one draft pick in 2005, and to nobody’s surprise, he was able to crack the Diamondbacks roster as a teenager. Upton would quickly take over as the team’s starting left fielder, and in 2009, he was named a National League All-Star, a feat he would repeat for Arizona in 2011. That was his best season for the Diamondbacks, where he smacked 31 Home Runs with a .529 Slugging Percentage while finishing fourth in MVP voting. Upton also had two 20-20 seasons with Arizona, with 739 Hits and 108 Home Runs, before he was traded to…
Too soon? Not at all. The Arizona Diamondbacks selected Corbin Carroll in the First Round of the 2019 Amateur Draft, and it only took the Outfielder until August of 2022 to reach the Majors. Carroll finished the year strong and staked a claim as an everyday player going into 2023. Carroll immediately established himself as the man to beat for the National League Rookie of the Year, and nobody came close despite some solid competition (Kotai Senga and James Outman). An All-Star in his first full year, Carroll finished the year batting .285, with 25 Home Runs and 54 Stolen…
The first seven seasons of A.J. Pollock's career were with the Arizona Diamondbacks, where he may have displayed flashes of greatness, but was often known for injuries derailing complete seasons. Pollock had a full year in 2015, when the Outfielder was named an All-Star, won a Gold Glove, and finished 14th in MVP voting. That year, he also had 20 Home Runs with 194 Hits and batted over .300. At the end of the 2018 season, Pollock signed with the Los Angeles Dodgers, thus ending his run in Arizona. With the Diamondbacks, he had 640 Hits, with a Batting Average…
Merrill Kelly was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in 2010, but after four years in the minors, he never made the big leagues and was released after the 2014 Season. Kelly persevered and went to Korea, where he played for SK Wyverns for four seasons, winning a league title in 2018. After that, he gave the Majors another try, and he signed with the Diamondbacks, making the team out of Spring Training. Kelly became a competent starter, throwing 183.1 Innings with a 4.42 ERA. He only had five Starts in 2020, though had an ERA of 2.59. Although his stats went back to…
The first nine seasons of David Peralta’s career were in the desert, but to get there, the Venezuelan-born player had to convert from a failed Pitcher in the St. Louis Cardinals organization. “The Freight Train” played at Leftfield and truly arrived in 2015, when he led the National League in Triples (10) and batted .312 with 17 taters. He later won a Silver Slugger (2018) when he had career highs in Home Runs (30), RBIs (87), Slugging (.516), and OPS (.868), and a year later, he won a Silver Slugger. Arizona traded Peralta to the contending Tampa Bay Rays during…
The fact that Christian Walker is on any Top 50 MLB baseball list at all is incredible, considering how he bounced from organization to organization, playing only 13 Games in the Majors before he was released in 2017. The Diamondbacks signed Walker, and it proved to be one of the most pleasant surprises in franchise history. The First Baseman played a handful of games in 2017 for the D-Backs, a few more the year after, but he broke out in 2019 with 29 Home Runs and 137 Hits, and he played well during the COVID-shortened 2020, but missed a section…
Miguel Montero spent nine years with Arizona Diamondbacks gradually working himself to a full-time starting role with the team. While he never had a season where he collected more than 140 Hits, he did have back-to-back 139 Hit seasons where he batted over .280 with 15 Home Runs (2011 & 2012). Montero would also provide solid defense, most notably where in 2011 the Catcher led the National League in Caught Stealing Percentage throwing out 40% of all who dared to steal against him.With Arizona, Montero had 795 Hits, and was well regarded for his durability and intelligence behind the plate. …
While Chris Young was never known for having a great Batting Average, he would bring some good power numbers to the Diamondbacks lineup. In his rookie season (2007), Young went yard 32 times, swiped 27 bases, and finished fourth in Rookie of the Year balloting. He would have three other seasons with 20 or more Home Runs, and three 20-Stolen Bases years for the D-Backs, but as good as the Power-Speed combo was, he did not take that consistent leap to the next level, which was the initial expectation for a number one overall pick.. Young was named an All-Star…
An established veteran when he signed with the Diamondbacks in 2000, Craig Counsell was never going to be a player who challenged for an All-Star, but the infielder Shortstop did show decent Batting Average on occasion (he batted .275 and .282 in the two seasons where he had over 100 Hits for Arizona), and he had good defensive prowess. Essentially, Counsell was best served as a utility infielder throughout his career, but D-Back fans will always remember his performance in the 2001 NLCS, where he was named the MVP of the series (.381 BA/4 RBI). He would later help Arizona…