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"Vargas clicked and then Fister and Pineda turned Jack into a sage of pitching talent...."
2 of those three, Z should get scant or zero credit for. Fister and Pineda were products of the Bavasi era, possibly the two most valuable products, and Z powerflushed both of them. Well, not quite powerflushed, but you get the point.
From here it does feel like this org wants to let their elite minor league pitchers simmer in the minors for a while past where they could be MLB-effective. Unless they were acquired from outside the organization (Beavan, Leutge, French, Olson, Noesi...)
Doc's point has traction to me, that this org seems to be overly risk-averse when it comes to their elite young arms. You coddle them or work them too much in the minors, then you lose out on some productive and educational MLB years.