“We traded for Dylan Floro at — what time was the deadline? 6:00 PM [EDT], so our was at 3:00 [MST], so at 2:57, 2:58, we hadn’t had the deal done,” Diamondbacks’ Executive Vice President & General Manager Mike Hazen told the Baseball Isn’t Boring podcast last week.
“So we go back and forth with the Nats over multiple players, we didn’t get a physical done — so that’s always, that’s never good.”
Without time for physicals, did whatever due diligence on Floro’s healthy they could, but it came down to trust. “You got to trust the Nats, and the Nats have to trust us.