Everybody in baseball knows what time of the year it is. You’re either a buyer or a seller.
“We’re all very well aware of it,” Diamondbacks manager Torey Lovullo said. “There are two paths that organizations take.”
But, on the field, ballclubs have to shut all this out. They’ve got jobs to perform and aspirations that have nothing to do with the front office. But time is fleeting. The trade deadline is at the end of this month.
“We’ve got to take care of today and see where that leads us to tomorrow,” Lovullo said.
That’s his mantra: Feel it now, then move on from it.