Arizona Diamondbacks single-game tickets to go on sale in February
Diamondbacks single-game tickets for the 2024 season will go on sale Feb. 26, according to the team.
The Diamondbacks are coming off the second World Series appearance in franchise history and first since 2001.
They won 84 games in the regular season before making a surprise postseason run through the National League in October.
The Diamondbacks’ home schedule this year includes a series against the New York Yankees (April 1-3) and two against the division-rival Los Angeles Dodgers, who signed superstar two-way player Shohei Ohtani during the offseason.
Members of the club’s “D-backs Insider” will have access to a presale opportunity. To register, go to dbacks.com/insider.
Season tickets and mini-plans are currently for sale.
The club begins spring training with its first workout for pitchers and catchers on Feb. 14 at Salt River Fields.
DBacks' spring training tickets already on sale
The Diamondbacks, coming off their surprise World Series appearance, will play their first Cactus League home game at Salt River Fields at Talking Stick on Feb. 24 against the Colorado Rockies.
They have 16 home games scheduled for spring training this season, with the last against the Milwaukee Brewers on March 24 before Arizona hosts the Cleveland Guardians at Chase Field in two exhibition games March 25-26.
The Diamondbacks open the regular season at home on March 28 against the Rockies.
Tickets can be purchased at dbacks.com/spring.
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Season tickets going strong for Diamondbacks
A team official recently told The Republic that 2024 season-ticket sales have been strong since October, and the season-ticket holder base likely will be north of 10,000 for the first time since the early 2010s.
It is clear the Diamondbacks have before them a rare opportunity to keep the momentum going. They do not need to one-up or even repeat what this year’s team accomplished; getting to the World Series is incredibly difficult. But if they could show that 2023 was not a fluke and that the Diamondbacks as contenders are here to stay — if they could get back to the postseason, say, twice more in the next three years — then perhaps what everyone saw and felt and experienced in October won’t be the anomaly.
Perhaps we will be able to see Phoenix in the same light as before — as a baseball town.
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Offseason moves increase DBacks' excitement ... and payroll
In agreeing to a three-year, $42 million deal with outfielder Lourdes Gurriel Jr. last month, the Diamondbacks pushed their payroll into record territory.
The deal, which calls for Gurriel to make $10 million in 2024, moves the Diamondbacks’ internal payroll figure into the range of $143 million, according to a source.
That puts them a little north of the $140 million at which they finished the 2018 season, which had been the previous club record.
The source said the Diamondbacks still intend to add further to the payroll.
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Diamondbacks fans praised for support of team
Right-hander Zac Gallen recently suggested that the club’s run to the World Series — and the Valley’s reaction to it — might have made him view Arizona as an even more desirable long-term destination.
“I love it here,” said Gallen, who is not eligible to hit free agency until after the 2025 season. “Especially after us having the success and seeing that there’s some energy here about baseball, and the fans have proven that they want a winner here. I love it here. That’s where I’m at. If they want to decide to do something, great, we’ll sit down and figure it out and see what happens. As of right now, nothing has been done.”
He continued: “It was good to see that there was life there, essentially. That’s a good thing. As much as we’re athletes, we’re also — for a lack of a better word — we’re performers, too. You want to play in front of a crowd. You want to have energy. It just makes your job that much more enjoyable to go out there and perform and play well in front of a crowd. To have that, I think it helped us in the playoffs.
“We saw crowds show up. When we played the Dodgers — and it’s no secret when we play the Dodgers, there are a lot of Dodgers fans here — when we played them in (the National League Division Series), to see that it was more red than blue, I think it kind of invigorated a lot of guys to be like, ‘OK, the fans are behind us here. We have fans.’ It was cool to see.”
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Diamondbacks still looking to improve roster
GM Mike Hazen said the club is “very active” in its search for a bat. The team remains in touch with free-agent options, and Hazen said the trade market has heated over the past week.
“Just a number of conversations, some creative stuff, that is kind of happening,” Hazen said. “Not sure anything is going to really happen, but I think the conversations have been more frequent.”
Hazen said that if he were to sign or acquire a slugger for the DH spot, it would be the type of hitter who would slot into the middle of the lineup.
Several free agents fit that mold, including J.D. Martinez, Jorge Soler, Justin Turner and Brandon Belt. The trade market is less defined but is thought to include the likes of Chicago White Sox slugger Eloy Jimenez and the Baltimore Orioles’ Anthony Santander.
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