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 multi-faceted and it came with a lot of deficiencies.    Reynolds struckout 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.

Omar Daal had a couple of decent seasons with the Arizona Diamondbacks.  In 1998 he only win 8 Games (with 12 Losses) but had a 2.88 ERA, which was good enough for fifth overall in the National League.  Daal had a much weaker ERA in 1999 but he did win 16 Games that year.

Daal had an overall Arizona record of 26 and 31 with 325 Strikeouts.