When a team finishes a tie-breaker shy of the playoffs, the blame can go anywhere. The result of a single ballgame - perhaps hinging on the outcome of a single inning, a single at-bat, a single pitch - going differently than it did would have changed the Diamondbacks 2024 season outcome. It can be maddening that after 162 games, the margin for error would be so small that events as small as a single pitch could be the difference between who plays October baseball and who gets an early start on the offseason. If you dwell on it too long, trying to hyper-analyze every pitch that could have gone differently, you would probably go insane.
The ‘Others’: The Problem with the Diamondbacks Bullpen
