Highlights
- Cronkite News published a full roster accounting of the 2001 Arizona Diamondbacks, the only major men's professional sports championship in Arizona history.
- Brian Anderson, the team's No. 2 overall pick in the 1997 expansion draft, is now a full-time TV analyst for the Tampa Bay Rays and a Suncoast Sports Emmy winner.
- Miguel Batista, who posted a 0.00 ERA in 8 World Series innings, has since earned at least one law degree, according to the Cronkite report.
- The Cronkite News series is ongoing, produced by ASU Walter Cronkite School students working with professional editors out of the Phoenix bureau.
Twenty-five years after Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling delivered Arizona its only major men's professional sports title, Cronkite News has published a full accounting of where the 2001 World Series champion Diamondbacks ended up, finding careers ranging from German sausage making to wildlife photography to Wall Street.
The piece, reported by Ethan Ignatovsky for the ASU Walter Cronkite School's news service, is part of an ongoing series on the championship. It profiles the roster in alphabetical order, with career stats and current whereabouts for each player.
Brian Anderson, a starting and relief pitcher who posted a 3.38 ERA across 5.1 World Series innings, is among the more prominent post-baseball stories. Anderson was the Diamondbacks' first pick in the 1997 expansion draft and one of only four pitchers on the staff to reach 100 innings that season, joining Johnson, Schilling, and Miguel Batista. After three UCL tears ended his playing career, he transitioned to broadcasting, sliding into the Tampa Bay Rays' TV booth as an analyst. He became the full-time analyst in 2011 and has since won a Suncoast Sports Emmy Award.
Batista, who threw 8 scoreless World Series innings with 6 strikeouts, took a different path. According to the Cronkite report, his post-baseball whereabouts are largely unknown, though he holds at least one law degree.
The Cronkite News series is produced by student journalists at the ASU Walter Cronkite School of Journalism, which operates reporting bureaus in Phoenix, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles. The full where-are-they-now roster piece is available at Cronkite News.
The next installment in the series is expected to continue the retrospective coverage ahead of the 25th anniversary of the championship.
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