I don't know who is ultimately responsible for the variety of bad decisions over the last several years, but it is true that the same people who hired Reagins and Dipoto hired Eppler. It's ok to be skeptical.
Didn't the Angels stay out of the international market due to some fallout over a scandal?
Also, given the very clear shift in results as soon as Bane lost control and left, I've always been confused as to why he didn't land an equivalent job after.
I remember Torii's BABIP was crazy in his final year and being fine with them moving on, thinking it was unsustainable. Turns out he just changed his approach and was able to repeat it for a little while longer.
Matheny was fired for failing at quite possibly the only thing that everyone agrees Scioscia is good at: keeping a quiet, drama-free clubhouse. It's really the Cardinals ownership and upper management that wants to frame this as ".500 baseball isn't good enough for this organization".