As if the Diamondbacks’ season hasn’t been miserable enough, a cruel twist of the baseball schedule will bring shortstop Dansby Swanson to Chase Field Monday night for the start of his first road trip in the major leagues.
Swanson will not only face the club that traded him just six months after drafting him with the No. 1 overall pick, he will represent all that has gone wrong for the Diamondbacks this year, the key piece of what has been a disastrous trade that is threatening to define both a season and the legacy of a front office.