The Diamondbacks’ coaching staff under manager Torey Lovullo will remain unchanged for 2021, team sources said, an indication of how the organization is framing a disappointing season within the context of playing just 60 games due to the pandemic.

Given the club’s struggles this year in a number of areas, it seemed possible that changes could be coming, and Lovullo suggested shortly after the season that he planned to evaluate everyone on his staff.

The length of the season was one reason the club opted not to make changes, a source indicated. Lovullo and General Manager Mike Hazen have been saying for weeks how difficult it will be to evaluate what that happened this year given the season’s unusual circumstances.

Another factor, the source said, was Lovullo’s faith in his coaches and the work he saw them put in throughout the year, something Lovullo discussed at length multiple times during the final weeks of the season.

“I can speak on behalf of my coaches in knowing the effort they gave me and the focused work that they gave me was fantastic,” Lovullo said on the final day of the season. “Obviously, we didn’t get the results we wanted in certain areas at certain times, but I watched this group work every single day tirelessly, whether it was early work, whether it was normal pregame work.”

The Diamondbacks finished the year with a 25-35 record, leaving them in last place in the National League West.

It remains to be seen how many other issues the organization will be willing to attribute to the short season. Hazen’s comments to reporters last week seemed to indicate that he wasn’t going to make major changes based on this year’s results.

“My instinct would tell me that what we’ve seen is likely abnormal,” he said.

Hazen later added, “My mindset going (into the offseason) is I feel like we have a good baseball team. I feel like we have a good baseball team that did not — and as a group, for whatever reason — we didn’t come out on the end of making the playoffs. That still doesn’t take away from what I feel like is the talent base of the roster and we need to make sure we maintain some focus on that and not overreact in the other direction.”

Offensively, the Diamondbacks ranked in the bottom half, if not the bottom five, of the National League in a variety of categories, and they struggled to generate production for long stretches that lasted weeks at a time.

The pitching staff struggled as well, particularly the rotation, which ranked fifth-worst in the NL with a 5.04 ERA. This year’s rotation ranks among the worst in franchise history in a number of categories.

The club’s coaching staff includes bench coach Luis Urueta, hitting coach Darnell Coles, assistant hitting coach Eric Hinske, pitching coach Matt Herges, bullpen coach Mike Fetters, first-base/outfield coach Dave McKay, third-base/infield coach Tony Perezchica and quality control/catching coach Robby Hammock.

Reach Piecoro at (602) 444-8680 or [email protected]. Follow him on Twitter @nickpiecoro.

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