What Could Be...Goodbye Gallentines Day

The treacherous trade deadline looms this upcoming week.

As a Diamondbacks fan, our worlds are about to be tossed around, from rumors to actual trades. After losing a series to the lowly Pirates, in which we managed only one run, the sell looks to be full steam ahead. Arizona has already made two moves: Josh Naylor and Randal Grichuk. No offense or shade towards them, but that is nothing compared to what could be on the Arizona horizon. Today, as D-backs fans, we may have witnessed our final Gallentines Day...oh right so for the casuals, I’m talking about pitcher Zac Gallen.

In this day and age of sports, you don’t always get to witness players on your team for as long as we’ve been lucky enough to enjoy Zac Gallen on the mound every five days. Gallen was acquired from the Marlins in his rookie season all the way back in 2019. He went through some of the darkest times in recent D-backs history(I mean soo rough seasons for the team), but many would find it hard to argue he wasn’t the leader of the pitching staff’s transformation in 2023. The ace of the staff, Gallen helped get our D-backs to the playoffs and contributed in any way he could as we won the NL Pennant. Also this included two very well pitched games in the world series, including leaving in line for the win in game 1! People seem to forget that...

Without Gallen, the D-backs don’t even sniff the success we’ve had over the past few years. Zac is the unquestioned ace of the last six-plus seasons for this team. Yes, 2025 has not been anywhere close to his usual form, and the pressures of a contract year, then being caught in trade rumors...surely haven’t helped him from a mental standpoint. Still, Gallen will be remembered as one of the D-back greats on the mound. There’s no doubt in my mind about that. It's so shitty for him that social media lives in a 48-hour cycle, they only care about your last start. I'm shocked of how many Dbacks fans are ready for him to be dealt, it's either denial or them showing their true colors of being a total casual. But the true D-backs fans know what Gallentines Day has meant to this franchise.

These trade deadlines, when you’re a fan of a team that’s selling, are the worst week of the season...no doubt. You sit back and watch everyone else take, take, and take.

We don’t know what’s next. As a D-back lifer, I truly hope Gallen is still a Diamondback on August 1st, and into 2026 and beyond. He’s still only going to be 30 and has some really good years left in him. I firmly believe this year was an anomaly. I just don’t know how we move forward without seeing Gallen on that mound every fifth day. For those who lost faith in him this year...how quickly you forget what he has given us as fans. I’ll never forget my first game at Wrigley Field in fact, and him hurling a complete game shutty. He’s the guy who you want in your locker room and on your side, a player always looking to improve and be better for the team. I don’t understand any fan looking forward to his departure. You see again, that’s the problem with some fans...if you are one of those.

I dearly hope this isn’t a goodbye blog to Zac Gallen, but if the high powers of baseball make it so, this needed to be said. Gallen, either way, will go down as a great in D-backs history, including a World Series–led season. He’s done so much for this franchise, and if this is the end, he deserves to go out with a standing ovation full of love online from the D-backs faithful.

WAIT real quick...Arizona management how about this though, let’s throw a Gallen-style curveball and re-sign this man now!

If not… we will miss seeing #23 on the mound in AZ with the specs on, celebrating Gallentines Day.