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Expectations are high in Diamondbacks land. Not only are they coming off an encouraging 85-win season, the team is fresh off an offseason in which it made several high-profile additions. For those wearing the rosiest of glasses, the moves left them dreaming not just about the Diamondbacks reaching the playoffs, but about them chasing down the Los Angeles Dodgers in the National League West.
It is clear not everyone views the Diamondbacks this way – in particular, the projection systems in place at Baseball Prospectus and FanGraphs, two of the leading baseball analytics sites on the internet.