And Almaraz. I understand why Klentak couldn't just jump right into that draft with anything other than the existing scouting infrastructure/data, but Almaraz wasn't a good hire to begin with (given he'd been in international at the time), and then they kept him for three more drafts.
But I reckon that's ultimately more on Middleton for hiring MacPhail and being overly deferential to Proven Baseball Men in the first place (which also left Klentak with people still working against him). He got lucky with Dombrowski, who is also obviously a much better manager/politician (both of his employees and of his owner). But if the issues we are seeing now can't be fixed or at least mitigated, we'll be left to wonder if anything about the team's culture or philosophy really changed in this era.
