Regarding Felix Pie,is it a case of him getting too much advice from too many people?

In the majors, Lou Piniella and Gerald Perry were instructing him,now he's back in th minors,where the coaches there will be instructing him...Regarding Felix Pie,is it a case of him getting too much advice from too many people?
Let's face it, the Cub's track record with ';phenoms'; hasn't been so great over the past decade or so...





From keeping them healthy (Wood, Prior) to keeping them from quickly exchanging the ';potential'; label for ';bust'; (Patterson, Pie), they just haven't been a very good developer of talent since the '80s with the run of Dunston, Maddux, Grace etc.





I don't think that he's getting too much advice from too many, but I have a feeling the Cubs don't give consistent coaching in the minors.





Take the Dodgers, for example, a large part of their success with their ';kids'; today is because the coaches work together at all levels and teach the same message. The main reason Rick Honneycutt is still the Major League pitching coach is because he was the Minor Leaague instructor for all those prospects they have waiting to come up. A guy like Blake DeWitt can make the jump from AA in part because a lot of his former minor-league teammates, like Loney, Kemp and Martin, are already there to help him get adjusted.





The Dodgers learned what I think the Cubs need to learn today. Free agents like D.Lee, Aramis and Soriano are great additions, but you cannot keep signing them at the expense of your minor league system. If you do that, then you become overly dependent on one prospect to be THE guy, and not every kid can live up to that.Regarding Felix Pie,is it a case of him getting too much advice from too many people?
I think it's a matter of him not using the advice he gets consistently. When the season first started, they took him out and worked with him for several days and then he came back against the Pirates and his swing looked much, much better. But then it's like he fell back on old habits with that odd swing, probably from not enough playing time which is why I think this time in AAA will help him as he obviously needs everyday play in order for it to stick.
He has never been a great hitter - even in the minor leagues. He has a long long swing. He was hyped to be great. So was Corey Patterson. Pie can only dream that he has any time in the minors that equals Patterson's. He is simply not a hitter.
I think Pie's biggest problem is in his head. He has the tools but always looks tentative at the plate. Felix needs to get his confidence in his ability to hit big league pitching back. Then he will be able to make a positive contribution.
He needs to learn how to hit, and unless he listens to his coaches, which it appears that he isn't, he's going to be a drifter.
He isn't living up to expectations.