This week, Diamondbacks general manager Mike Hazen has discussed the team’s situation at the trade deadline. Appearing on the Wolf & Luke Show on Arizona Sports radio on Wednesday, Hazen spoke about where they have to be in the standings in order to be buyers. “We need to be within distance.
My intention is to buy. I want to buy, I want to push further in. I know I’ve already pushed pretty aggressively in on this team.
I want to watch July, August, and September happen with really good baseball. We need to play a little better than we have and play a little bit more consistently than we have been playing. I think the next three to four weeks is going to tell us quite a bit.
” Arizona finds themselves in the midst of perhaps the toughest 13-game stretch of their season . That very well could determine the direction of where they go when it comes to the trade deadline. They lost the first game of that stretch in heartbreaking fashion, playing well for 8 1/2 innings only for the Dodgers to walk them off when they were one strike away from an impressive win.
Due to injuries and poor performances across the roster, they find themselves at a 41-44 record losing a lot of ground quickly in the Wild Card race. They are now 3.0 games back of the St.
Louis Cardinals for the final Wild Card spot and have been recently passed by the San Francisco Giants. There are now five teams ahead of them in the Wild Card race. Where the Diamondbacks stand right now, they have a very thin margi.
