I've been annoyed about Kratz for a while. Yet another C, and a solid one, that the org froze out because of the Thole-Dickey marriage. To use Kat's term, Thole is treated like some sort of "unicorn" with a PhD in knuckleball catching. I refuse to believe that Martin or Kratz could be so unable to work with Dickey that it necessitated employing Thole three years past his welcome. I will maintain that it's been an objectively sub-optimal move until someone slams a comically large binder of proof otherwise onto my desk.