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'Culture change' is, indeed, an epidemic in almost all companies/organizations. It buys you time.
And I'm hoping that the new culture for the M's means improvement.
But my sense is that this is going on on two levels. Servais has the much harder job. He has to sell himself to the old line in the Seattle dugout. That may be a lot harder than it seems.
On the other hand, JD can play the long game. Draft who he wants...have McKay mold them as JD wants...and eventually reap the results. Of course, his challenge is the fact that he has to buy what he needs...there's nothing much left on the shelves.
As JD said over the weekend, it's a 'win now' objective. What do we have--two years, maybe three in this window?