Here at Fanster.com, we’ll be spending the last few weeks of 2008 counting down the biggest sports stories in the Valley over the last 12 months.
Many Diamondback fans complained about the lack of a big bopper in the middle of the Sedona red lineup. GM Josh Byrnes took care of that problem at the trade deadline, when the first-place Snakes picked up slugger Adam Dunn in a deal that sent pitcher Micah Owings and utility man Wilkin Castillo to Cincinnati. On August 11, when the trade went down, the Diamondbacks were 60-58 and 1½ games ahead of the Dodgers in the NL West. With Dunn in the fold, Arizona went just 22-22 and lost the division by 2 games. In those 44 games, Dunn hit 8 home runs, drove in 26 and hit .243. He wasn’t offered salary arbitration, and won’t be in the Valley in 2009.
Links from around the web on the Diamondbacks’ deadline deal to pick up “The Big Donkey”…
