Not really... I remember at the time the favored guys were Bud Black, Joe Espada, Rocko Baldeli, guys like that. Montoyo’s name came out of nowhere and then from the moment he was hired the media tried to spin the “he has lots of experience and is praised all throughout baseball” angle.
Montoyo himself said he likes to manage using a combo of analytics and old school baseball. We’ve seen the team use analytics moves like the opener, only twice through the order, more platoon stuff, but clearly Montoyo is a terrible in-game manager.