Arizona’s often spent on the wrong pitchers at the wrong times. The $210 million Corbin Burnes contract may break that slump.

Representatives of the Arizona Diamondbacks have made a pitch to state officials to use sales tax revenue to fund improvements to Chase Field. Two Republican state lawmakers confirmed they had ...

the Diamondbacks were not aggressively pursuing Burnes, but rather that the pitcher's representatives came to them late in the free-agent process expressing a desire to pitch in Arizona.