Sorry this npoor argument has been soundly debunked months ago.
The scouting director says the name when they are on the clock but the scouting director doesn’t create the draft board all by himself. His input and reports are used to help make the draft board up and they rely on his opinions on players, but the entire FO meets before the draft and discusses every player that gets on the board and the only thing the scouting director actually does on draft day is to pull the names off the board as they get picked and then say the name of the guy thats left at the top of that board when our time is up!

To suggest otherwise jus5t shows that you have no clue about how a corporate structure or chain of command works,

Middle management makes suggestions to his superiors before he acts, those superiors tweak and make small changes and then he carries out those orders with approval of his boss.

It is not as you suggest the guy gets hired has no interaction with his bosses, just does whatever he wants, takes whoever he wants GM and FO direction and philosophy be damned!

Maniac was taking a poster to task (not Alex) for complaining about Omar’s drafting ability.
In fact this entire article seems to suggest all that crap we were hearing earlier in the season about how the players from our Farm that were doing good were a product of the OVERHAUL Sandy made happen in the MiL system.

As was just said…They didn’t do a lot just put a little bit of focus on some things that may or may not have been focused on before!

I am in no way suggesting Omar, Phillips, Sandy have 0 to do with players drafted.

I am suggesting that if that player becomes successful in the big leagues (and wasn’t a no brainer guy like say Harper), then the GM has much less to do with that than field coordinators and coaches etc. Which is why DePodesta gave credit to those guys.

I love how we’re knocking DePodesta for giving OTHERS credit.

- In most instances, the Scouting Director. You don’t wanna hear that though because you want to divide credit up and assume the GM of any team is reading through over 1,500 scouting reports and seeing tape of over 1,500 high school and college players.

-”if a player is picked in the first round, and he becomes a bust, then who gets the blame?”

- I can certainly concede a GM has more to do with a 1st round pick than any other pick. However, you may blame the GM if Nimmo or whoever becomes a bust. But if he becomes a bust for any reason other than injury, it’s in all likelihood the scouts and coaches fault. The target is the GM because he’s the face you see.

The GM hires amateur scouting directors for a reason. The problem is people like to point a finger at the GM because the GM is the name and face they know.

Dick Scott, Wally Backman, Tim Teufel, Terry Collins when he was minor coordinator or whoever etc all have more to do with ANY young player becoming a productive big league player than Omar, Sandy, Steve, Paul, or JP.

That’s probably why he didn’t credit Minaya for these players emergence, because Minaya didn’t teach them anything.

Lol, says the guy who throughout his career has done nothing as a GM, or assistant GM or scout…. Omar minaya as a scout is 10x better than this clown..