February 17 – March 9, 1962

Gene Chandler

Duke of Earl

January 27 – February 16, 1962

Joey Dee and the Starliters

The Peppermint Twist – Part I

Mark Reynolds was certainly adept at hitting Home Runs, and as a Diamondback, he hit 121 of them, including a 44 Home Run campaign in 2009.  His power puts him on this list, but his game was not multifaceted and was marred by many deficiencies.  Reynolds struck out in more than one-third of his plate appearances, and he exceeded 200 three times with Arizona, all of which were National League leading.  His 223 whiffs in 2009 remain a single-season record.  

Reynolds also made a lot of errors, as he was a league leader in that twice as a D-Back.  Despite that, his power game is strong enough to keep him on this list for a while.

Chad Tracy played six seasons for the Arizona Diamondbacks and arguably he lands on this list based on the strength of his second and third season (2005 & 2006) where he was a 20 Home Run hitter.  Tracy’s best season was in 2005 where he had 27 Home Runs with a .308 Batting Average, which was good enough for seventh in the National League that year.  Unfortunately for Tracy he never came close to replicating his two good seasons with Arizona and would be relatively mediocre for the three years after.

Tracy had 654 Hits while batting .280 as a Diamondback.