My answer to some of your questions is as follows:
1. I pretty much agree with you, chemistry is over emphasized and tends to show well when your winning.
2. I think he was implying that the team had learned to jell well together as a team, and there was no need to make the amount of changes that were made in total.
3. I think he meant that leaders have to develop over a period of months. Managers, coaches and player leadership qualities are quite different. A manager makes hard decisions regarding who plays, who sits, many in game decisions, bating orders, etc., and must be in a position to reprimand and encourage a player as necessary. He shouldn't have to justify every decision he makes, and must be isolated somewhat from the players. The coaches fill an intermediate role, they can be closer to the players, sometimes consoling and encouraging them. Player leaders come in all types, part of it is they have to lead by example to some degree to have a much credibility. Some can be poor performers and be leaders, but I believe that is rare.
4. No one is saying that the manager and coaching staff have done an outstanding job this year. I would think their performance is under review mostly by DiPoto, and somewhat by Moreno. Not every player is playing poorly compared to their norm. Unfortunately this team has little depth, and the highest paid players on the team are under performing for various reasons. A few are injured, and there is no depth to step up and fill the void created by these injuries.
Making changes to a baseball team, employees in a company, or almost any situation where team performance is required to succeed will many times set the entire team back a few steps until they learn to work with one another, not always but many times it will. I believe this wasn't taken into account by either Arte or DiPoto. I still believe this team will come together and win somewhat consistently, but not until some of the players come back from injury, it's just not a deep enough team. I've said this in previous years, you need between 40-50 effective players to win a championship. That's how many different players the Angels run out at the Major League level each year. Unfortunately our numbers 25-50 on the depth chart are very poor right now compared to other clubs.
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