league record for the season fell to 0–4 while his ERA rose to 8.17. It would be his last major league start in the Yankees organization. Kennedy opened the 2009 season in Triple-A but began feeling numbness in his pitching hand that April. On May 8, he was diagnosed with an aneurysm around his biceps and underwent surgery the following week. He began facing live batters again at the start of September, and from there, Kennedy pitched in six minor-league games, including two starts, for a total of innings. He returned to the major leagues on September 20, with manager Joe Girardi intending to utilize Kennedy as a long reliever. Kennedy made his first Yankees appearance in over a year on September 23, walking two batters and hitting another with a pitch during the eighth inning of an eventual 3–2 win over the Angels. Kennedy was subsequently left off of the postseason roster on the Yankees' run to a 2009 World Series championship title. After the season ended, he joined the Surprise Rafters of the Arizona Fall League to make up for the mostly-lost season. Experimenting with developing off-speed pitches, Kennedy had a 4.25 ERA during his fall league stint, putting up a strikeout-to-walk ratio of 5.6 in his innings. Arizona Diamondbacks (2010–2013) On December 8, 2009, Kennedy was part of a three-team, seven-player trade with the Yankees, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Detroit Tigers. Kennedy, Phil Coke, and prospect Austin Jackson went from New York to Detroit in exchange for All-Star center fielder Curtis Granderson, with Kennedy then flipped to Arizona alongside Edwin Jackson so that the Tigers could acquire Diamondbacks pitchers Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth. The Diamondbacks started showing interest in Kennedy when he pitched for the Arizona Fall League, and he earned a position in the Arizona starting rotation by the end of March 2010. The Diamondbacks' player development staff agreed at the start of the season to limit Kennedy's workload to a total of 180 innings, an amount that would help the pitcher extend his durability without pushing him into additional injuries. Kennedy picked up his first win in over two years on April 29, pitching eight innings in the Diamondbacks' 13–5 rout of the Chicago Cubs. Kennedy was able to take a one-run game into the eighth inning before giving up a grand slam to Kosuke Fukudome, and Daniel Stange was called in to pitch a