Melvin’s Pink Slip is Showing

Press, press, press. For two weeks now, the Diamondbacks have pressed. And for a long time before that, if we want to be honest.

Spring Training was Pressure Fest ’09. We shouldn't care about wins and losses in the Cactus League, but we couldn't help notice the way the Snakes were losing. Arizona had Mark Reynolds booting balls, Justin Upton striking out, Brandon Webb and Max Scherzer and the bullpen all not right.

That followed an off-season in which nothing went to script, from Randy Johnson’s departure to San Francisco, to Orlando Hudson’s defection to Los Angeles, to the degradation of the infield defense, to the egg-on-our-faces discovery of money for Jon Garland when Johnson and Hudson were allowed to walk to division rivals.

We understand that an arbitration offer to Adam Dunn could have been a disaster. Were he to accept, he might have commanded a salary in the eight-figure range. The team already has four starting OF and only one 1B job for Chad Tracy, Tony Clark and...

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Tags: Adam Dunn, Bob Melvin, Brandon Webb, Cactus League, Chad Tracy, Conor Jackson, Jon Garland, Justin Upton, Los Angeles Dodgers, Manny Ramirez, Mark Reynolds, Orlando Hudson, Randy Johnson, Rick Schu, San Francisco Giants, St. Louis Cardinals, Tony Clark