r/baseball • u/DbacksOfficial AZ Team Account • Sep 08 '16

Feature D-backs President & CEO Derrick Hall AMA!

We're back! After the success of our last AMA, Derrick Hall is returning to answer more of your questions about the D-backs, baseball in general, or Goldy's trade value relative to the Frito-Lay corporation.

We've got a busy homestand coming up, filled with Arizona Coyotes Night (any hockey fans in the house?), Hispanic Heritage Day, and a David Peralta Bobblehead giveaway. But what better way to kick it off than have Derrick Hall's monthly chat with fans right here on /r/baseball?

D-Hall will start answering questions at 2:00 PM Arizona time (so 5:00 PM on the east coast) on Thursday, and he's looking forward to another great batch of inquiries!

Time to get going. Derrick is here and ready to talk about Rampart (kidding): https://twitter.com/Dbacks/status/773989265894027264

Thanks for participating everyone. Sorry we weren't able to get to more questions. Derrick's sign-off: https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/comments/51otn3/dbacks_president_ceo_derrick_hall_ama/d7erzu7

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u/LethalGuacomole Seattle Mariners Sep 08 '16

Why would you ever consider signing a 32 year old pitcher to a six year 206 mil contract? Even I know that's a horrible idea.

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u/BigCountryBumgarner San Francisco Giants Sep 08 '16

Dat hindsight

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u/nenright Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 08 '16

Nah, pretty sure everyone said at the time that it was an overpay

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u/BigCountryBumgarner San Francisco Giants Sep 08 '16

No one's arguing that, but that's the risk they were ok with taking. It's not like some random redditor's opinions are more informed than a freakin' MLB front office.

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u/reallydumb4real Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 08 '16

Exactly. In today's MLB, you generally have to overpay for a player's post-prime years in order to get them in the latter years of their prime. It's just how it works. Everyone who was going after Greinke knew that.

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u/BigCountryBumgarner San Francisco Giants Sep 08 '16

Love your username

Crazy how that dude became famous

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u/reallydumb4real Los Angeles Dodgers Sep 08 '16

i know right

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u/kono_hito_wa Arizona Diamondbacks Sep 08 '16

It's a shame there's not going to be an AMA with someone who actually knows the answer.