So he inherited the pick, but not the player. He could've picked any number of players with that pick.
So you want to try and treat what 100 out of 100 people would have done as some kind of accomplishment? He certainly drafted him and you have to do a number of things from signing to development, but he was being called the best catching draft pick ever after like 10 minutes. If he had done something other than the most obvious thing, you could make some type of assessment on his approach.
He also inherited Bundy, Castro, Cobb, and everyone else he traded since he took over.... should he not get credit for any of those players?
Sure he does. The approach you could take for the acquisition of all of those players has an extremely wide variance (compared to 1-1 above) so even for the less obvious things like the Gunner Henderson selection, lots of other passed and that was more of a choice ....but since you seem to think we've accomplished something....a couple of questions...
1) The Orioles likely have the #1 MiL system as soon as some of the promotions hit...if you took AR, GR and DLH out of the system (say, you promoted them all today and they fall off like Wander Franco will soon enough), where do you think the Orioles system would rank?
2) Which player that has been acquired would you project as a core or critical piece of a future roster?
3) Which players that have been acquired were uniquely acquired as a function of 'rebuilding'. For example, this thread is about Jones...did we have to not care about investing in the ML roster to acquire him?
