Rejoice, rejoice, the baseball season is almost here! In an attempt to quickly get some of you slackers up to speed on the year ahead, Big League Stewards Kevin Kaduk and David Brown will again look at a division, hold a conversation about the issues therein and then issues some predictions on expected standings and award-winners. Finishing our series is the NL West . David Brown: Well, Mr. 'Duk, we've covered 25 teams over five divisions and now it comes down to the final group — the National League West. A year ago, most prognosticators figured that the San Francisco Giants would take first place again and that the Arizona Diamondbacks would be lucky to go 73-89. And that's precisely what didn't happen. The Giants offense scored about 50 runs all season and they weren't even in the race, really, over the final weeks. The D-backs, on the other hand, were the surprise of the year and won 94 games. They challenged the Brewers in the playoffs. They were legit a year after finishing 27 games out of first. Was it all a a dream? Some kind of fluke? A hybrid fluke-dream? Did skipper Kirk Gibson simply scare the kids into first handing over their electronic toys and then into...