LOS ANGELES – Young relievers Jake Barrett and Enrique Burgos helped nail down a Diamondbacks win on Saturday night, turning in the sort of performances that Dave Stewart sometimes calls “small victories.” They are the kind of moments worth focusing on for a team buried in last place.
After further dismantling their relief core with Sunday morning’s trade of veteran Tyler Clippard, the Diamondbacks are viewing the final two months of the season as a sort of drawn-out audition for their 2017 bullpen. Plenty of jobs are available.
For all the attention given to their subpar rotation and porous defense, the Diamondbacks’ bullpen rates among the worst in baseball, its 4.