During a series of broadcast interviews the past two days, Mozeliak referred to the questions he has received from fans about the “effort” and “energy” levels of right fielder Dexter Fowler. In a podcast with Fox Sports Midwest broadcaster Dan McLaughlin, Mozeliak tried to walk from Fowler’s lack of production and lack of playing time to a larger comment on how the team, as a whole, “needs to take a hard look in the mirror and decide what they want that next chapter to look like.”
Fowler is away from the team during its series in Phoenix to be with his wife for the birth of their second child.