His team’s continued mediocrity seemed to be weighing heavily into Mike Hazen’s decision-making process, but the Diamondbacks’ general manager wasn’t ready to proclaim his club an outright seller on Monday afternoon.
Still, after dropping three of four games to the Milwaukee Brewers over the weekend – the latest contending club on which the Diamondbacks have failed to gain ground in recent weeks – Hazen sounded more open than ever to shifting the organization’s focus toward the future.
“The belief that a .500 team is going to win the World Series, get through the wild-card format that we have and win the World Series is – I don’t think, objectively, that’s a position we should be staking ourselves to,” Hazen said.