The Diamondbacks are 7-2. They started last season 7-2. They rather famously exposed the Giants’ Mark Melancon problem despite Madison Bumgarner’s two home runs on Opening Day. Then some other stuff happened, and then the Diamondbacks were swept by the Dodgers in the NLDS. But that happened after a season where they went 69-93 and looked to be in for an unknowable stretch of simply terrible baseball as an organization.
For a few years, they were committed to the idea of ManBall... or GruntBase... something that was primal, that only a caveman could play... that reflected what Real America thought of Real Baseball.