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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
The abysmal drafting and treating of 2nd round picks like they were trade currency ruins it for me. He was a horrible amateur talent evaluator and never had a plan past riding Iggy and Kipper into the ground. That said I have him and Treliving are neck and neck and I just think Coates would have done a better job than both of them if he had their resources.
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To me, this is what made Sutter good as a manager.
He got a team without the scouting and development system in place to be able to make good decisions for evaluating amateur talent and develop player we picked. Like good self aware managers should do, he recognized the limitations and made the best out of the situation. He invested in the future by building up our scouting and development system. But at the same time knew we did not have the system in place yet, and the good players on the team would not be valuable by the time our system was improved. So instead of wasting picks with the existing bad system, he traded them to get the most value based on what our organization;s strengths were at the time.