Epstein is a great GM and I wish he was still here, but he's also on a ridiculous streak of things working out to their absolute best-case scenario. Arrierta and Hendricks turning into aces out of nowhere in consecutive years. Their purposeful sucking rewarded with Rizzo/Bryant/Schwarber falling into their laps in the draft. Dexter Fowler turning down more money from Baltimore and putting up a .392 OBP. Scoring on his long term FA deals (Lackey/Lester/Zobrist). The Heyward deal looks like a notable miss, perhaps a sign of things to come? There are plenty of alternate universes where Arrieta and Hendricks are Clay Buchholz and Henry Owens. It's actually much like his first few years here.