Rookie Tyler Gilbert gave the last-place Diamondbacks a reason to celebrate with a no-hitter in his first big-league start.
He definitely doesn’t want to become another Bobo Holloman, whose career consisted of a 3-7 record, 5.23 earned run average, and one complete game – the no-hitter – out of 10 starts. Two years after Holloman made history, both he and the two teams involved – the St. Louis Browns and Philadelphia Athletics – had disappeared into the dustbin of baseball footnotes.
Like Bill Veeck’s Browns nearly 70 years earlier, the D’backs need to build from the bottom up. They shaved $5.5 million off their payroll before the trade deadline, moving veterans Stephen Vogt, Tim Locastro, Joakim Soria, and Eduardo Escobar to contenders, but still carry a payroll of $89,089,346, ranked 21st in the majors according to Spotrac.
At the moment, veteran starting pitcher Madison Bumgarner is the highest-paid player at $19 million, with outfielder Kole Calhoun second at $9 million. Bumgarner himself pitched a “no-hitter” in Atlanta earlier this season but did not get credit for it because it occurred in the second game of a doubleheader and went seven innings rather than nine.
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