Dan Haren News

A happy Giants righthander Tim Lincecum talks about his second straight National League Cy Young Award while his pitching coach, Dave Righetti, joins him at AT&T Park.

Also featured on Rotoprofessor.com ! When healthy, the Arizona Diamondbacks have a top-five one-two punch, in Dan Haren and Brandon Webb.

Tim Lincecum of the San Francisco Giants won his 2nd consecutive National League Cy Young Award in one of the closest votes ever, beating out St.

This is a Sept. 8, 2009, file photo showing San Francisco Giants' Tim Lincecum during a baseball game against the San Diego Padres, in San Francisco, Tuesday, Sept.

The World Series may still be fresh in your mind, but MLB GMs are already focusing on next season.

In the end, the D-backs felt the risk of not picking up Brandon Webb's contract option for 2010 was greater than using more than 10 percent of their payroll on a pitcher coming off shoulder surgery.

RoyalsWithCheese.com: Looking Back/Looking Forward - Left Field Our Royals correspondent, Kyle Elfrink reviews/previews the club's left field position.

This will be an important offseason for the Arizona Diamondbacks as they try to rebound from a last-place finish in the National League West.

The Diamondbacks have a lot of work to do this off-season. Lucky for them, it looks as if they will have something north of $28 million to spend on 2010 payroll.

Ita s time to wrap up our early 2010 rankings with the starting pitchers. A Therea s an extremely fine line between many of these pitchers, so look for things to really move around as we get closer and closer to draft day.

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Arizona manager A.J. Hinch says third base coach Chip Hale and first base coach Lorenzo Bundy will not return.

Say bye-bye to Chad Tracy, who's pretty much done as a Diamondback. - This is how the Arizona Diamondbacks' abortion of a season ends, not with a whimper but a bang: The bungling boys in Sedona red took two of three from the Chicago Cubs over the weekend in the Windy City to bring a merciful end to their wretched 2009 season, including a 12-3 ...

The Rays' Opening Day starter looked like his old, reliable self in his final outing of the season, surviving an eighth-inning uprising by the Orioles to secure a 5-3 Tampa Bay win.

Arizona Diamondbacks manager A.J. Hinch and pitching coach Mel Stottlemyre Jr. have been ejected from a game against the San Francisco Giants.

Chad Tracy is in his final week as an Arizona Diamondback, and to say the 2009 season has been a frustrating one for him is an understatement.

About the Diamondbacks: The Giants are 49-29 at AT&T Park and would be guaranteed to finish with no worse than a tie for the best home record in the NL if they win at least two of three in their final series at China Basin.

Where: Chase Field . Pitchers: RHP Dan Haren vs. Padres LHP Wade LeBlanc . TV/radio: No TV/KTAR-AM , KSUN-AM . Notes: This will be Haren's second-to-last start.

Dan Haren hoped to be pitching Arizona into the playoffs. Instead, he is just trying to get the club out of the National League West basement.

Dan Haren is smart, competitive, edgy. He's one of the better pitchers in baseball.