I'm not trying to pick on you here, but I think people are forgetting/ignoring DD's earlier history with the marlins and the expos. In both cases he did a pretty good job building the farm system. Most of the players on the 2003 Marlins team were drafted by him during his tenure between 1993 and 2001.Buzzkill Pauley said:
Under Dombrowski, the Tigers were one-year wonders with an ace and a superb #3 hitter. They became a dominant team once they got two aces and two superb hitters hitting 3-4. This is also the formula used by the Theo.
In the case of the Tigers, he took over when they were one of the worst teams in baseball; in his first two seasons the tigers had 100+ losses. DD was the guy who drafted verlander, granderson, nate robertson. He traded for Anibal Sanchez and Doug Fister for basically peanuts (best player in the deals was Jacob Turner, IIRC).
He may not be analytical, but DD has an excellent track record for assembling both farm and MLB talent.