If Jake Diekman has pitched his last game for Arizona, his performance will put him in pretty elite company. Just not in a good way. For his 7.53 ERA ranks third all time among Diamondbacks’ pitchers with more than twenty appearances for the club, behind Eddie Oropesa (7.59 in 2002-03) and Javier Lopez, who somehow managed to make 29 appearances for Arizona in 2005, despite a 9.42 ERA. A trade-deadline acquisition from the Rangers, the D-backs inexplicably sent two players with actual pulses to Texas in exchange for Diekman: prospects Wei-Chieh Huang and Joshua Javier.
Diamondbacks Free-agent Discussion, #4: Jake Diekman
