Last month I was on a podcast (pause for impressed murmurs) and the host asked me if the Diamondbacks were going to try to contend this year or tear it all down. I paused, and said I wasn’t really sure, not because I didn’t have that info, but because the way the team is constructed at the moment it could go either way.
Fast-forward to now, and even after a few moves prior to and during the Winter Meetings, the same is true. It falls on a fundamental thing that I think the new F.O. has also taken to: It’s not too much of a stretch to imagine this team being at least kind of good.