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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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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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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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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In his first bullpen session of Spring Training, Randy Johnson impressed Diamondbacks’ manager Bob Melvin with his ability to locate his pitches after having his season come to an end due to back surgery a year ago.
Johnson threw 27 pitches during the Sunday session with wht appeared to be his normal delivery.
“From the first pitch, […]
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Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic is reporting that Brandon Lyon will enter the season as the Diamondbacks closer. With the team trading their former closer, Jose Valverde, to the Houston Astros, there were were a lot of questions as to who would fill the role. Tony Pena and Chad Qualls also figure […]
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