Randy Johnson has passed all the tests in terms of health and is on his way back to the majors. He will take the mound Monday for the Diamondbacks against the Giants, which will essentially be a third minor league rehab start. The Diamondbacks would be foolish to expect The Unit to be […]
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UPDATE (4-8-08; 5:43 PM): Young’s extension is worth $28 million over five years. Part of it will be paid in way of a $1 million signing bonus attached to this year’s salary. The team option is worth $11.5 million with a $1.5 million buyout.
The breakdown of his contract will look like this:
2008 - […]
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Randy Johnson will make a start for the Diamondbacks’ Triple-A team tonight, and is likely to make one more minor league start on April 8. After that, it’s on to the big leagues.
After his two starts at Triple-A, Johnson will assume Doug Davis’s spot in the rotation on April 14. Davis is scheduled […]
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Chad Tracy’s return from microfracture knee surgery has progressed, as he is now running every other day with no setbacks. Tracy traveled with the Diamondbacks to Cincinnati for the opener and spent part of the pregame running in the outfield.
He’s been taking batting practice since the start of the year, but he hasn’t been […]
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Making the road back from another back surgery, Randy Johnson is scheduled to make his first start of Spring Training on Monday.
“This is exactly where we had it mapped out to, yet we weren’t going to get too far ahead of ourselves,” Diamondbacks manager Bob Melvin said.
Melvin didn’t indicate how long Johnson’s start would be, […]
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Randy Johnson is moving closer to coming all the way back from back surgery. He took a step closer to that return on Thursday when he faced hitters in batting practice for the first time this spring.
Johnson threw 53 pitches and is scheduled to throw another round of batting practice in three or four […]
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Shawn Green, a major league outfielder for 15 years, has decided to retire in order to remain at home with his family. Green indicated that he received interest from six or seven teams, but none of them were close enough to his California home to consider.
“I had planned on retiring at the end of […]
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Randy Johnson, who continues to make progress on his return from back surgery, threw his second bullpen session since the beginning of Spring Training on Thursday.
“He looked great today,” General Manager Josh Byrnes said. “He threw the ball with some velocity with very little effort. That was a good sign.”
Johnson threw 35 pitches yesterday and […]
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Jerry Crasnick of ESPN.com is reporting that Trot Nixon and the Arizona Diamondbacks agreed to a minor league deal today. The two parties have been in discussions for some time now, but the Diamondbacks only wanted to sign him if he’d accept a minor league assignment later in the year.
The Diamondbacks will likely only […]
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Diamondbacks’ second baseman Orlando Hudson has been cleared to by the team’s training staff to be a full participant in drills during Spring Training. Despite being cleared, manager Bob Melvin hopes to ease him back into the swing of things.
After suffering a torn ligament in his left hand, Hudson sat out every game after […]
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