Eight is Enough

Apparently Diamondbacks CEO Jeff Moorad likes what he sees out of team president Derrick Hall and GM Josh Byrnes — enough to give them both eight-year contract extensions.

Byrnes has cultivated a winner in his short time with the Diamondbacks, though, as Buster Olney points out today [$], he did have a sweet crop of talent awaiting him in Phoenix:

Byrnes took the baton of work handed off by former scouting director Mike Rizzo and has pushed the Diamondbacks’ climb upward, to the top of the National League West last season.

Fueled by the Dan Haren trade — and the tentative return of a, well, tentative Randy Johnson — Arizona’s brimming with optimism.

Now if only they could cultivate a fan base.