The secret to baseball success is in the pitching staff. Everything else is secondary.
The Diamondbacks have great hitting, fielding, and baserunning. Even a reasonable bullpen, but the starting rotation is a shell of a competitive team's staff. This World Series is particularly irksome in that regard, since half the pitchers are our former pitchers and it is the one thing we now lack. Just look at the pitching talent on display in this series, and it's no mystery why these teams are there. Our roster is better than these, otherwise.
Cole, Verlander, Greinke vs Scherzer, Strasburg, Corbin
Even our former thrown away managers are coaching in this series (Hinch, Hale)
I have a lot of faith in Hazen and Lovullo, and think they'll do quite well if we can just bring in and pay the tab to retain quality starting pitching. We can't keep on being the farm system for the coastal teams.