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I just think that the masses are not really appreciating several things:
1) How bad it really was when Z arrived.
2) That Z worked really hard to get "quick" talent into the pipe, (French, Vargas, Olson, Robles, etc.) - making the picture of the state of the farm seem better in the short term.
3) That Z elected to gut the farm of lower level arms (and Morrow), in order to pull off the Lee trade.  He got back Smoak from that - a good thing - but Smoak is off the farm, too.
My assessment is that Z has done a masterful job of making a rotting corpse look much better than it really was.  But, he leveraged the situation to produce as much talent QUICKLY.  So, (when Ackley is called up), what remains behind is still a rotting corpse.
I think - realistically - it'll take 4 or 5 drafts of high caliber to fix the damage done in the last decade.  I'm sure Z will work to accellerate that as much as possible - but you can only do so much so fast.
I think believing that the farm is suddenly fine is akin to thinking the economy is going to magically go from 10.2% unemployment to 5% unemployment in a couple of years.  It's just not realistic.  One could agree that the economy is improving - but that doesn't mean we're going to have 5% unemployment next week.
Some things take time.