That's your Dombrowski/Leyland axis. JL, bless his heart otherwise, just didn't much value defense and that mindset permeated the org pretty deeply for a long time.
Avila came in talking about defense, and he brought in some decent CF gloves in Maybin, Jones, Cameron, Martin. But he never got as far as improving the corners much and most the CF candidates ended up not hitting or if they proved their value, got flipped like Martin.