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The Diamondbacks' Best Story Just Keeps Getting Better

Arizona Diamondbacks On SI·Alex D'Agostino·27 days ago
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By now, Ildemaro Vargas is no longer an Arizona Diamondbacks secret. He's national baseball news. Earlier this week, Vargas was named the National League Player of the Month for an exceptional stretch of April play. In the 10th year of the journeyman's major league career, all of baseball now knows his name. "It's like a dream come true," Vargas said through a translator. "[With] so many... great players out there, for me to be named, it's special for myself and my family. "Not so long ago I was playing in an independent league. Not so long ago I was released by five different organizations. So, what I'm going through, what I'm living right now is a dream come true." That type of dream-come-true is to be expected when one puts up a monthly slash of .372/.393/.663 , with an OPS of 1.056 and five home runs. "He got everybody's attention in Major League Baseball," manager Torey Lovullo said. "Probably never thought that he'd be getting that type of attention.…

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