"DiPoto thinks character is way, WAY up the charts"
This just in, character wins. Nah, that doesn't mean everybody on your team must be a goody two-shoes, but it doesn mean they need to share a vision and have a bit of a hard-nosed devotion to it. The guys that didn't share that...get rid of them.
Z got rid of his manager instead.
No slap-to-the-face of HoJO, but is there anybody in baseball more well regarded for their "character" than Edgar? Funny how we get good when he's around and Rodney (who I thought was just a big-armed flake...Your mileage may vary) isn't.
OK...that's WAY too simple.
But if DiPoto is a smooth operator who wins and values character, then what the heck is the delay? Pay him some large clams and give him the key to the city.