Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen met with reporters on Friday for the first time this spring and touched on a variety of topics.
Meeting with reporters for the first time since camp opened, Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen sounded satisfied with what his club was able to accomplish in the offseason and hopeful about its chances in the upcoming season, but he remained tempered in terms of expectations for his young team.
In hopes of doing that, the club addressed its bullpen issues by adding a number of relievers on both major- and minor-league deals. It acquired a frontline catching prospect in Gabriel Moreno and a veteran outfielder in Lourdes Gurriel Jr. in exchange for Daulton Varsho, trading from a position of depth from its well-stocked outfield. It signed veteran third baseman Evan Longoria and brought back veteran right-hander Zach Davies.
Here is what Hazen had to say on a variety of topics, his comments edited lightly for brevity and clarity.“Being in the position to be aggressive at the deadline to buy and play meaningful baseball games in September — that's what I would constitute to be a successful season this year. I don't know what’s going to happen after that. Nobody does. The competition in the National League is pretty stiff. There’s a lot of teams that improved quite a bit. I think we improved.
“We’re still 15 games below, on paper , the best teams in the division. I don’t think it’s satisfactory until that gap gets closed to a much narrower band. Now, in 2017, we were sitting in the exact same situation with a high-70s projection. We won 93 games. So I don’t think there’s a ceiling on, with improvement, where our roster can go. I think there’s a lot of talent on this roster.
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