It's because the entire developmental system is as shit now as it was before Cherington. He didn't change anything. He doesn't have the money to make over a cheap franchise. Yeah, he's a failure at this point. No doubt about it, but let's not pretend he was given a Ferrari of a job here. The entire franchise is f***ed. There is 30 years of win/loss data to prove that point.
The system sucks, the GM running the system sucks and is handicapped greatly, which means everything below him is as well. There has not, outside of a few year window until Huntington, over the past 30 years, where any sane person could look at any other sane person and go "yeah, this franchise is on the right track".
I'd also like to mention that me being fed up with this franchise and being vocal about it doesn't reflect on any stranger out there. I don't know any of you personally. You all seem like good people and my only wonder is how you can stomach watching something so rotten?
I'm not advocating any of you not watching games, not buy product, mech, etc. That's your own business. I'd wager if everyone stopped going to games and buying crap, things might change, namely MLB would just prop the team up until it was sold but I've long wondered how working class people so casually throw money into a loser?
It's just f***ing depressing seeing a complete teardown with many trades and many high draft picks amounting to what looks like an utter and complete disaster.