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David Peralta has played his first six-and-a-half seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks where the Outfielder has displayed a balanced offensive game.  Peralta has had four 10 Home Run seasons (which includes a 30 Home Run season in 2018) and in 2015 he would lead the National League in Triples while also batting .312.  Defensively, Peralta won a Gold Glove in 2019, and was arguably in contention for others.

While the best years were well behind him by the time Matt Williams arrived in Arizona, Matt Williams proved to be very popular among the Diamondbacks fans as one of the original members of the team.

While Gerardo Parra was never known for his power numbers (his season-high is 14) he made history where he became the 100th player in Major League Baseball history to hit a Home Run in his first ever at-bat.  Parra may not have had many more of those for Arizona, but he did have three 130 Hit seasons and an impressive defensive resume.  Parra would win a Gold Glove playing both Leftfield (2011) and Rightfield (2013), the latter of which would see him win the Wilson Overall Defensive Player Award.

Parra batted .274 with 728 Hits with Arizona.
Craig Counsell had a four year run for the Diamondbacks (2000-03) and while he was never really that close to being an All-Star the 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.  He would later help Arizona win their first World Series.

Counsell was traded to the Dodgers after 2003, but returned as a Free Agent in 2005 for another two years as a D-Back, where in '05 he had his best defensive season (3.5 Defensive bWAR) in his career.  Overall, Counsell had 611 Hits for the team.