I don't think the answer is so cut and dry and doesn't have to be an either/or. I'm willing to concede that Avila was smart enough to know what he didn't know and knew what had to be done and got people here to lay the foundation. There's a lot that goes into an organization's baseball operations. It's not just the draft picks and free agent signings, or even the manager and coaches. I do give Harris a lot of credit for this team's success. But I also believe that it would have been impossible to achieve that without some things Avila put in place (hint: It's not just players). There's no shame in understanding that to fully take advantage of what's there you need someone else to come in and take over and build on it, subtract from it, and pull from it. You can hire all the right people but do you know how to put it all together? What assignments to give? You can say that Harris is doing great but that Al wasn't as bad as the results during his tenure indicate.