In his first week on the job, Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen seems to be feeling out his new front office more than restructuring it. But he does have some ideas of what he’d like his baseball operations department to eventually become.
“Hopefully, it’s going to be a strong team environment where we have dynamic, forward-thinkers mixed with guys who know the game and bring different skill sets,” Hazen said. “Hopefully, it will be collaborative -- an open environment where people in scouting and player development and others in baseball operations can challenge each other on assumptions and come to some good decisions.