The Diamondbacks have a strange history with managers. They’ve embraced dictatorship and anarchy. They hired and fired a candidate within four days after failing to do a background check. They employed one of the game’s greatest field generals to do everything but manage.
This time, it looks like they found the right guy.
The hiring of Torey Lovullo, a former Red Sox bench coach, checks all the right boxes. He has experience but has never really proven himself, yet to run his own major-league team on a full-time basis. He has the pedigree that comes from a winning operation.