I don't disagree with any of that, at least not totally.
But I also feel that's not just on Hyde...that's an organizational issue. I mean, I'm too young to remember the "Orioles Way" teams but I know enough to know that those things, the fundamentals, were drilled into everyone across the organization...that if you came up from A ball to AA, you had an understanding of situational awareness, same with AA to AAA and AAA to the majors. That's what made it special, a method of how to play the game correctly spread across the entire organization so that everyone was on the same page.
So while it's easy to pick Hyde to be the fall guy here, I think the blame should be spread across the entire organization, not just Hyde. I mean, a guy like McKenna and a guy like Hays should know better by now. Hyde can't be on the top step of the dugout yelling at them to throw the ball to the correct base like a Little League coach. Hyde can't be calling timeout to make sure that each guy knows what to do in a situation.