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Edwin Jackson made his first major league start at Chase Field on Sept. 9, 2003.

Diamondbacks General Manager Josh Byrnes and his front office contingent left the winter meetings on Thursday with their primary off-season goal - adding starting pitching - accomplished, and with a new candidate for a bullpen job via the Rule 5 draft.

Athletics 11. Blue Jays 12. Reds 13. White Sox 14. Brewers 15. Rangers 16. Cubs 17.

The winter meetings reached the finish line Thursday, and for all their meetings and conversations, the Giants netted only a minor league pitcher in the Rule 5 draft.

In 2007, the Diamondbacks were mentioned in tandem with the Rockies. Both National League West squads reached the NL Championship Series thanks to an influx of young, homegrown talent.

When the Arizona Diamondbacks representatives left for the Winter Meetings in Indianapolis they took with them a war chest of roughly $10 million and a laundry list of needs to fill on their roster.

Yankees close to landing Granderson Curtis rGranderson, shown sliding into third base ahead of Ryan Zimmerman's tag during 2009 All-Star Game, is about to be dealt by the Detroit Tigers to the New York Yankees.

Coming into the 2009 season, the Arizona Diamondbacks were well-aware that when it came to offensive depth, there just wasn't that much in the system.

The Arizona Diamondbacks made a move to plug one of their most pressing needs when they acquired right-handed reliever Aaron Heilman from the Chicago Cubs last week.

The team selected the contracts of infielder Cole Gillespie, right-handed pitchers Roque Mercedes and Daniel Stange and left-handed pitcher Jordan Norberto.

Going into this offseason the Arizona Diamondbacks identified three areas they wanted to address before Spring Training 2010 arrived.

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.

Arizona Diamondbacks It was a tough year in Arizona and it ended even worse when the D-Backs No.

Josh Bell, 3b, Chattanooga 11. Jay Jackson, rhp, Tennessee 12. Todd Frazier, of/2b/1b, Carolina 13.

Augie Ojeda had three hits and drove in three runs, Chad Tracy hit his second home run in two games and Arizona beat San Diego 7-4 Sunday.

Tracy hit an 0-2 pitch from Luke Gregerson an estimated 432 feet into the swimming pool area in right-center field to conclude the scoring.

The Diamondbacks will have at least one hole to fill in their starting rotation for 2010, maybe two depending on what they do with injured ace Brandon Webb .

It is still too early to say definitively, but both Mark Reynolds and the Diamondbacks front office expect the third baseman to fall short of qualifying for arbitration for 2010, a scenario that would save the team a huge chunk of change.

When Gerardo Parra hit a long fading fly ball to right field in the seventh inning Friday night, nobody could have been sure what was going to happen.

Only three games separate the San Diego Padres from last-place Arizona Diamondbacks in the NL West, but the differences between the two recently have been much greater.