CEO Derrick Hall on manager Torey Lovullo: ‘He’s not the problem’

During a radio appearance this week, Diamondbacks CEO Derrick Hall sounded frustrated with his team’s recent performance and hinted at possible fallout, but he stopped short of suggesting one such change would come in the form of a new manager.

“You really have to blame everybody,” Hall said Thursday morning on Arizona Sports 98.7’s Doug & Wolf. “I hear, ‘Oh, it’s on the players. Oh, it’s on the coaches. Oh, it’s on the front office.’ It’s everybody. We have to fix it.”

Hall lamented the fact that the Diamondbacks have stumbled for long stretches for several years in a row and seemed to suggest the team’s core might need to be reassembled. He noted how the organization gave last year’s roster…