Icertainly hope Mike Hazen has some thick skin and an awful lot of suntan lotion. The amount of flack Mike Hazen is getting from the Arizona fans, local media, armchair GMs, and even nationally famous pundits for not moving Zac Gallen on deadline day is overwhelming to the point of near absurdity. Hazen has been questioned repeatedly about the subject in the past 36 hours or so. His reasons have been met largely with a rolling of the eyes. That may or may not be fair, but it is certainly further indication of the general consensus of Hazen’s deadline day performance. In fact, the perceived failure to move Gallen (and potentially others) on deadline day has even resulted in the Diamondbacks making appearances on some of the “deadline day losers” lists.

Most of Hazen’s public reasoning can

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