Lou, your argument ultimately devolves into the same drivel as to why Jorge Julio had to be a good closer, because Beinfest figured shit out with Benitez and Jones and Looper and Urbina.
Past success is not at all indicative of future success.
Here's something that is tremendously overlooked about this current team.
With the exception of Hermida, not one single every day position player was drafted, developed and promoted to the club from within. Save for JJ, there is not a single Beinfest produced Marlin to make the All-Star game, Beinfest has yet to produce a multi-season all-star or award winner. All the award winners we've had were plucked from other team's systems.
Does the future look very bright for Coghlan and Johnson? Absolutely, but it looked very bright for 2005 Jeremy Hermida, too.
To just say "Beinfest does it" with young players ignores tremendously the paths the successful major leaguers we have took to the majors, and how, auspiciously, none of the perennially successful ones spent notable time in our minor league system under Beinfest.
That's why I'm skeptical, that's why I'll continue to be skeptical and won't just pencil in anyone we have in our system as a certainty, we as an organization have shown a tremendous EYE for talent, but when the burden falls on us to develop it at any level other than the major league level, we fall embarrassingly short.
Past success is not at all indicative of future success.
Here's something that is tremendously overlooked about this current team.
With the exception of Hermida, not one single every day position player was drafted, developed and promoted to the club from within. Save for JJ, there is not a single Beinfest produced Marlin to make the All-Star game, Beinfest has yet to produce a multi-season all-star or award winner. All the award winners we've had were plucked from other team's systems.
Does the future look very bright for Coghlan and Johnson? Absolutely, but it looked very bright for 2005 Jeremy Hermida, too.
To just say "Beinfest does it" with young players ignores tremendously the paths the successful major leaguers we have took to the majors, and how, auspiciously, none of the perennially successful ones spent notable time in our minor league system under Beinfest.
That's why I'm skeptical, that's why I'll continue to be skeptical and won't just pencil in anyone we have in our system as a certainty, we as an organization have shown a tremendous EYE for talent, but when the burden falls on us to develop it at any level other than the major league level, we fall embarrassingly short.
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