I don’t think you’re grasping the other side. In sports, you are mostly evaluated on results. It may have been perfectly reasonable to assume Varsho would be a 5-6 WAR player. I know that was certainly a lot of people’s projections here. Nobody cares what the March projection was in October.
This also isn’t our job. We aren’t paid to determine if Kirk should be traded, if there’s reasons to believe Springer is declining, Vlad may not bounce back, etc.. that’s for a GM to decide and be accountable for going into a season. Same when they sign a FA.
In any business I know, the leaders are responsible for results. Widely Missing projections three years in a row is luckily a position I’ve never been in