Mike Hazen has a sense of urgency to win games. He demonstrated that urgency by deciding to DFA Madison Bumgarner sooner instead of later.
“I ask our players and staff to have urgency around how we are going to play, and attack. And so I have to do the same thing. I can’t be a hypocrite, ask for that and not do it in my job. And so that was part of the reason we made a decision.” — Mike Hazen, April 20, 2023
Urgency drove actions by the Marlins.
In her first two seasons as GM, the Marlins experienced two seasons of losing baseball (95 losses and 93 losses).