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Originally Posted by Prison Bitch
What do we know about Picolo? He’s Dayton’s butt-buddy from their George Mason playing days. As is Lonnie Goldberg. Seems like nepotism hires so I’ll reserve any excitement for his supposed qualifications. Also wasn’t he responsible for drafting these pitching duds and not developing them? Did he snow-job Sherman by saying DM prevented him?
There was a large analysis on Royals Reciew or somewhere that lots of our great farm system were scouted by Deric Ladnier and he was canned for either Picolo or Goldberg. Which coincided with our run of busts from 2011-2017. I posted it here but can’t find it now
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The biggest feather in Piccolo’s cap at the moment is the development of hitters and an improved hitting program that has shown tremendous results in the minors and majors levels.
He was out in charge of it and identified the guy to give the reins to… and then got out of the way.
Sherman is betting on Piccolo being able to continue some positive aspects of the previous regime while moving past some of the hang ups. We’ll see how he does.