Arizona Diamondbacks Offseason Report Card

Photo by Sarah Sachs/Arizona Diamondbacks/Getty ImagesThere is no sugar-coating it. The 2021 season was an unmitigated disaster, the Diamondbacks finishing the season tied for the worst record in baseball. Only by virtue of sucking less in 2020 than their cellar-dwelling counterparts in the previous season did they manage to technically finish the season ranked 29/30 instead of dead last. This led to no shortage of calls for Ken Kendrick and Derrick Hall to clean house and start over. That did not happen. Instead, Mike Hazen and Torey Lovullo were given the opportunity to fix things. While the repair process is far from complete, the 2022 version of the team was massively improved, if not still one with plenty of flaws. The level of improvement was enough to warrant giving Mike Hazen yet another winter to get to work on improving the Diamondbacks, both now and in the future. With the calendar having flipped to February this morning, pitchers and catchers are on the cusp of reporting. So, it is time to have a look at what Mike Hazen has done this winter in his continued attempts to salvage the Diamondbacks. Did he do enough to get them back into contention for the playoffs, enough to at least play better than .500 ball, or are they doomed to languish in the lower third of the standings again?

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