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The Arizona Diamondbacks faced the Texas Rangers in the 2023 World Series. 1 year later, they struggled with an EXTRA talented team. The 2024 Diamondbacks collapsed… but why?
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Title: How a World Series Team Collapsed in ONE Year
By: Purely Baseball
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last year was a fluke
No. Not a collapse. Clickbait title, with all due respect. Though, September was painful but in my book, they showed that 2023 was an upward trend (albeit overachieving at the right time, but still) and not an aberration or an outlier. They had horrible luck in the first half with injuries and were missing Merrill Kelly and Eduardo Rodriguez for large chunks of the year (and even after they came back from injury, they weren't as effective as they could be), along with Corbin underperforming so badly there were fans wanting him demoted back to AAA. Gallen never really was the ace that he was previously (maybe fatigue from a shortened offseason?) and it seems like any time Moreno was out, the pitching staff forgot how to pitch. Injuries and negative regression to the wrong players at the wrong time along with an inconsistent bullpen (they never really had a closer after Sewald turned into post-1997 Mark Wohlers without the wild pitches) did them in. I can absolutely see 91-93 wins and a playoff return in 2025 with a return to form for the rotation (positive regression) being a big reason for that.
We didn't lose the bee delay game Christian walker walked it off 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
lmfao this video is terrible… you’re acting like the dbacks were terrible this year when they won more game than they did in 2023. they’re gonna be fine lol.
Cope.
How is 89 wins a collapse
Bet he wished he stayed in Teaxes LOL
10:00 they won on a walk off home run
Bro talking about them like they didnt win 89 games with a positive w/l and were only 1 or 2 games away from another wildcard spot and arguably had one of the better offenses in MLB this year
unlike the Rangers with 78 and a negative w/l even with Yates doing everything to save them 🤣🤣🤣
We did not collapse we had injuries we will be better next season
dbacks won the bee delay game 10:00
DBacks missed the playoffs by one game 😂 calm down
Had a trip booked to Arizona for Oct. 1st bought tickets for the wildcard game and started watching all the dback games right as there downfall started end of the stretch, depressing to watch lol
Small market WS back to big, MLB all over the place the past 2 years but we love it
far from collapsed lol
Rip the city of Arizona🥲🥲
They really didn’t have a bad year just got unlucky in a strong NL
This video should be about the Rangers 😂. Dbacks didn’t make the playoffs this year by a technicality
if anything the rangers fell harder than the diamondbacks lol
They didn’t collapse yes they did miss the playoffs so did the rangers and our owner said nothing about that
They didn't collapse….they just weren't the Dodgers.
As a Dbacks fan I feel like we did pretty good compared to the Texas Rangers who did horrible despite winning the World Series
This video shold be about the rangers. They shouldn’t have been in the world series and have proved to the league that you can still be poverty even after wining a WS. Their’s is a fluke any way
8:12 how did you pronounce his name 😂😂
Signing monty was hilarious as a ranger fan. Did you not see how hard we rode him? I never fault a player going after the bag. Glad we did not sign him
They didn't lose the bee game Cwalk walked it off
Bro acting like corbins been in the league for 10 years saying he's having his worst season yet like he wasn't a rookie last year😭
One quick note: the dbacks won the bee game
I have to agree with some others here that it wasn't a collapse. They won more game this year actually and were the top in the league for runs and very high for hits. Did they make some mistakes? Sure. Do they need way better pitching? Heck yes. But it was more like a disappointment in their potential than an overall collapse.
Let's talk about the Rangers and how they did this year.
Collapsed??? They had an end of season collapse this season, they didn't all of a sudden collapse after playing in the World Series, they performed for most of this season my 14th favorite team in MLB but man Texas won the World Series, never looked like a playoff team this season, and had a losing record for most if not all season like they finished, my 4th favorite team in MLB only bringing that up to show no bias, I guess i could be more disappointed by a team I like better but the facts is facts, the Rangers were already struggling in the beginning when even the Astros were struggling, then couldn't pick it up when the Seattle started struggling
They actually won more games this year than last year, so I wouldn't say they "collapsed". Rather, I think the Braves and the Mets did better, especially given that one team had been battling with injuries all year and one team didn't really get going until the Grimace and OMG thing.
Injuries plagued them all season didn’t find a rhythm you saw flashes of the previous success for sure
This video should be about the Rangers
They didnt fall off their still good. Do u guys even watch baseball
This is the dumbest video ever. They played incredibly in the last half of the season last year and did about exactly what they should have done then, this year. There's no discussion here, there's no team "falling apart" they just played like they were expected to
We had 6 more wins this year…
Dbacks definitely didn’t collapse since last year. They had a better record and MUCH better run differential in 2024 than 2023. They narrowly snuck in the playoffs in 2023 and narrowly missed the playoffs in 2024. They were like one game away from making the playoffs in the exact same situation as the year before with the WS run. How is that a collapse? You could claim that they had a late season collapse. On Aug 25 they were 75-56. They then finished 14-17 to end up with an 89-73 record. On Aug 25 they were on pace for a record of 93-69 which would have had them comfortably in the postseason with the Mets missing out.
The dodgers just being shit is the only reason why the Dbacks made it that far, 20 minutes wasn't needed no offense