On a gorgeous Arizona spring morning walking about the sprawling Salt River Fields Baseball Complex one could hear the familiar sounds of baseballs popping gloves and the crack of the bat. Everywhere one looked on every field there were groups of players warming up and getting into the day’s workout.
In all there are 79 players from the Diamondbacks organization listed on the early camp Roster. Notably, there are no 40 man roster players participating due to Major League Baseball’s ongoing lockout. The lockout is a topic the team officials were not willing to discuss at any level and the media was expressly instructed not to engage with any of the players on the topic.