Per Baseball-Reference.com, nineteen players who qualified as rookies appeared for the Diamondbacks in 2016 [Note: Fangraphs additionally lists Enrique Burgos, whom B-R says lost his rookie status after 2015. Throughout, I’m taking B-R as authoritative, and using just bWAR] Those players combined to be worth just 0.4 wins better than replacement level. That seemed like a terribly low value, but there was only one way to find out. So, I went back into the records books and dragged out the stats for all 266 rookie-eligible seasons in team history, 121 position players and 145 pitchers.
A history of Arizona Diamondbacks rookies, Part 1: The Seasons
