Ultimately, running a professional sports franchise is a results-based business. The Arizona Diamondbacks determined that it was time to go in a “new direction” and, as club president Derrick Hall said, the team “hit the reset button.”
After making bold and, what many would consider franchise-changing moves, the team finished with 69 wins, 22.5 games out of first place in 2016. To say the season was disappointing represented a gross understatement.
Now, with a depleted farm system, the Diamondbacks seem to the same spot they were in 2010. The difference is the farm system is more comprimised.