In the post season presser he claimed they've made upgrades in the pro scouting dept and it's improving. Yet no reported personnel changes in the upper echelons. 🤷♂️
why in the long run, the GM/PBO is the most important guy in the org. Anyone can 'go get a player' but it takes a lot more than that to build a team that wins.
Definitly can't let Chipmonks or Red Squirrels get happy nesting under your hood or too near your house. Never had any trouble with fox squirrels getting into things.
I could take other side on that debate though. Kenta looked like he was on an ordinary age related decline, Javy was coming back from a fairly major surgical repair. I think it's a fair argument that you did have more reason to see what Javy had than Kenta. The counter point - Kenta is a pitcher, and if a pitcher has a pulse, they get a look.
That's been true for him right along. His MiLB results weren't that overwhelming either.
He is incredibly inexperienced to be where he is, so it's unfair to expect more than he is doing, which is keeping them in almost all the games he starts. I think people have gotten their expectations skewed after watching Skenes, but Skenes is a true unicorn. Almost anyone else needs 500+ IP at least at college and/or MiLB to figure out what they are doing - Jobe is just starting to get there at 300 IP total as a pro.