Greinke Drawing Interest

[Ronin]

But Hazen said he can’t envision a scenario in which the Diamondbacks are both in the race leading up to the deadline and open to moving one of their frontline players, particularly Pollock and Greinke.

“I don’t believe we’re going to be in a position to make the playoffs if we do that necessarily,” he said. “Those are two of our best players. You’re fundamentally changing the shape of your team.

“Speculating on what could happen in the next 60 days is difficult in this game because a lot of things change. But I can’t envision that scenario taking place, unless there was some kind of adequate replacement, which I don’t see how that would make sense for us or somebody else. But I understand the speculation and I get it.”

http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor.../?hootPostID=2dda13f737ce84be5d85f6b4d5a330ed

 

[Dude]

http://www.azcentral.com/story/spor.../?hootPostID=2dda13f737ce84be5d85f6b4d5a330ed

There are some who view the Diamondbacks’ foray into contention as a potentially negative development in that it could push back what they consider a necessarily replenishing of the farm system. Hazen doesn’t see it that way. He says it’s a “great thing” for the Diamondbacks to be where they are in the standings at this point in the season.

“If the opportunity has passed on trading one guy or two guys as opposed to the opportunity to win?” he said. “To me, I’m going to take that tradeoff. That’s a tradeoff that I think we have to take.”

So winning might not be good to someone?

 

[overseascardfan]

So winning might not be good to someone?

Same thing happened with the Suns the year they got Bledsoe. Was suppose to be start of rebuild but they finished above .500 and people including management thought we were closer to playoff contention than we actually were.

Is this team for real or a flash in the pan?