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Originally Posted by duncan_idaho
I would agree under normal circumstances.
With Picollo, being an internal promotion who was touting a willingness to keep the good things (the work Drew Saylor and company were doing with hitters, letting Paul Gibson continue to overhaul pitching development after 1 year) while also ditching the bad things (extreme loyalty to players, lack of ability to be transactional, over-focus on "developing players as leaders and men", unwillingness to dump the shitty ****ing major league coaching staff).
Has he carried through on that?
It's hard to say.
Some of the pitching at the lowest levels has shown promise. Maybe the development there is working. But the hitting has also taken a step back at most levels, including the majors. I'm not sure they have something they can really hang their hat upon.
It's something fans can't get a complete picture on. But it sure seems like the stale air that was causing a lot of problems still is fairly stale and causing problems.
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They're as bad as a team that is tanking on purpose...they really come off as a team that has no idea what it's doing.