Watching the baseball playoffs on television is must-viewing for Diamondbacks General Manager Mike Hazen. As in, he must do it because it’s part of the job, perhaps the least enjoyable part.
“It’s hard to watch,” Hazen said in a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “It’s hard to sit here, two days after the season, in an empty baseball stadium. It is not an ideal day for anybody in this job, or in our organization.”
Worse, it’s becoming a habit for Hazen and his organization.
It’s the third consecutive year the Diamondbacks have missed the playoffs, the third consecutive year Hazen and manager Torey Lovullo held news conferences days after the final game to answer questions about what went wrong and how to fix it.