The FO deserves 100% of the credit when they do good things and they deserve 100% of the blame when they do stupid s***. They brought in Collins, a guy who is clearly a defective bat, and decided to roster him at the major league level instead of trying to develop him at AAA. Even when they brought in Zimmer, they sent Katoh down instead of Collins. That tells you they want to play him. You don't go out of your way to roster three catchers if you don't want that third guy getting play.
Stuff like this is retroactively cleansing the hate I had for Montoyo over things like playing Joe Panik too much. I don't believe there's a chance in hell he was playing Panik against the FO's wishes. I think the FO had him played as long as they could until they realized he was a pumpkin and then they traded him away. Hopefully they're right about whatever they see in guys like Collins, Tapia and Zimmer because, from a distance, that looks like a f***ton of bad plate appearances to give to projects in an all-in contention year before you get to the Joe Panik point of cutting them loose.