GM Mike Hazen says the Diamondbacks have extended the contract of manager Torey Lovullo for one year with a club option for But they have enough faith in me to continue running this team from the dugout level and I am going to give my absolute best effort every day to get this thing turned around and pushed in the right direction.
Lovullo called that an area in which he has evolved; he believes he has learned to create more barriers between himself and players to allow him to make more difficult decisions with less friction. Whatever it is. I learned that over the past couple of years.
Easy to be around, easy to play for, easy to root for and want to do good for. Hazen said he decided to bring Lovullo back at some point over the past week to 10 days, ultimately reaching agreement with Lovullo on contract language on Wednesday. All of the coaches under Lovullo are on contracts that expire at the end of the season; Hazen intimated that Lovullo will have the autonomy to reshape his staff however he wants.
Entering Thursday at , the Diamondbacks are on pace to finish with the worst record in franchise history. The club went While Hazen said the club never expected to win games this year, it never expected to lose , either. I think that I have, in reflecting on this, that is a piece to this evaluation. You learn a lot about somebody through those periods, too. I think a couple things with that.
I think that puts too much power in that seat. Torey is going to make decisions on some parts of all this. That is an area that is fairly comprehensive and that we are percent going to be taking hard looks at. Certainly in a season like this, it is a very challenging environment for everybody involved. We made the decision to play through the season and not have the focus be on any of those things.
Knowing that those are always real things for everybody. I tried to do that through a lot of information gathering, tried to have a process around it and not just react at times. There were plenty of reactive moments during the season given the amount of games that we lost, but we tried to remove some of that stuff.
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Stories Schedule Roster Stats. Filed under:. Reddit Pocket Flipboard Email. The deal announced Thursday includes a club option for , according to general manager Mike Hazen. Arizona had lost 14 of 17 before rallying for a victory over Atlanta on Thursday. Only Baltimore entering Thursday's game against Texas has a worse record in the major leagues.
I know what can happen in these circumstances. I couldn't be more grateful for the trust they have in me. I'm lying if I said I never thought out it. Of course I did. These are turbulent waters.
I'm not the same manager I was four, five years ago. Lovullo, 56, was Boston's bench coach from to , serving as interim manager during the last two months of the season while John Farrell was treated for lymphoma.
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