Diamondbacks president/CEO Derrick Corridor mentioned Monday and he and normal supervisor Mike Hazen “are all the time having conversations about his future,” and that the 2 had talked a couple of potential extension. “I can’t envision us going a distinct course with what he’s constructed and his [leadership] group, too….I’m greater than keen to have conversations with him at any level,” Corridor informed Nick Piecoro of the Arizona Republic.
Hazen is nearing the tip of his seventh season in change of the Diamondbacks’ entrance workplace, and the Snakes are on tempo (79-72) for his or her fourth profitable season of Hazen’s tenure. Arizona entered at the moment’s motion in possession of the second NL wild card slot, although three different groups stay inside a half-game of the D’Backs within the tightly contested playoff race. (The Phillies maintain the highest wild card possession and are 3.5 video games forward of Arizona.) Ought to the D’Backs crack the postseason area, it’s going to mark their first playoff look since 2017, once they claimed a wild card berth in Hazen’s first season with the group after which superior to the NLDS to face the Dodgers.
With profitable information in his first three seasons within the desert, Hazen obtained a contract extension in September 2019, which locked up him up by means of at the very least the 2024 season (the D’Backs have a membership choice on his providers for 2025). Nonetheless, the Snakes struggled badly within the instant aftermath of Hazen’s new deal, going 77-145 over the 2020-21 seasons. Opting towards a full rebuild within the wake of these two seasons, Hazen as a substitute retrenched to some extent, signing Ketel Marte and Merrill Kelly to new extensions and hoping for a comparatively fast turn-around. That rebound appears to be going down this season, and NL Rookie of the Yr favourite Corbin Carroll leads a crop of well-regarded prospects that would present the franchise’s subsequent wave of expertise.
It isn’t stunning that Corridor is thinking about retaining Hazen, nor that different golf equipment have observed the Diamondbacks’ progress. Corridor famous that he and Hazen had mentioned an extension previous to the firing of Crimson Sox chief baseball officer Chaim Bloom final week, and ESPN’s Buster Olney reported over the weekend that the Sox had some curiosity in maybe bringing Hazen again to Fenway Park. Hazen is from Massachusetts, and he beforehand labored within the Crimson Sox entrance workplace from 2006-16.
The D’Backs would have grant permission to another group for an interview with Hazen, and Corridor mentioned the Crimson Sox “haven’t contacted me, and I hope they don’t. He’s underneath contract and we like him.” When requested by Piecoro how the D’Backs would method a state of affairs the place Hazen confirmed curiosity in an interview, Corridor admitted “that will be a tricky one. I really feel like we each negotiated a contract for a purpose; contracts defend him simply as they defend us. He’s conscious of that. He’s meant so much to this franchise. I actually just like the state of affairs he has navigated and created right here, so I simply can’t see us entering into a distinct course.”
