J.D. Martinez powered our offense over the second-half, in a way rarely seen here. He hit 29 home-runs for the Diamondbacks - enough to get him into the franchise single-season top 20, even though J.D. appeared in just 62 games. And it wasn’t an empty slug-fest either, with Martinez batting .302. Over his brief spell spell with Arizona, he was worth 2.6 bWAR: pro-rate that to 155 appearances, and it comes out to 6.5 bWAR. That’s a level only reached by two outfielders in D-backs history: Luis Gonzalez in 2001, and A.
Re-signing J.D. Martinez: The case for and (mostly) against
