Water under the bridge at this point.
The new management seems to have a clue, time will tell, but after living in the dark ages and fighting off Viking invaders, looks like they finally have a clue, know what the word "analytics" means, and actually are spending on upgrading scouting, coaching and facilities.
Frankly, I think intelligent spending on scouts and coaches will provide far more bang for the buck than throwing money at 16-18 year old prospects. It's becoming more obvious that the physical and mental development of your prospects, and choosing ones with baseball (instincts, coachability) rather than athletic skills on the margin, is the way to go.
When you look at the players who succeed, once you get past a certain minimum of raw skills (velocity, bat speed), things like polishing pitching mechanics to improve command and deception, developing secondary pitches, swing mechanics, using the entire field as a hitter, setting up the pitcher or hitter each AB, are just as important to success as raw ability. It's great to have guys with eyesight, power, speed and a rocket arm, even better if they use that vision to see the spin and know when to lay off, use that power to all fields instead of overswinging and hitting popups and weak ground balls, don't run themselves into outs just because they're fast and think they can outrun every throw, use that arm to throw to the right base instead of overthrowing the cutoff man.
What I really want to see in two years are disciplined hitters who don't chase pitches out of the zone and don't try to pull pitches on the outer edge of the plate, pitchers who attack the zone and don't constantly run up 3-1 counts, who can throw all their pitches for strikes at any time, baserunners who know what they're doing out there, fielders with good fundamentals, etc. Smart, well coached teams that know how to play, talent of course, but applied talent.
Some of this is scouting, always easier to start with a player with instincts and a feel for the game, some of this is coaching, teaching as well as observing (one size doesn't fit all), some of this is culture, a clubhouse where lack of effort and bonehead players aren't tolerated by your peers.
