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This has been covered repeatedly in numerous fora. Swarbrick by VaDblDmr

screwed the hire up, evidently because of a mistake by one of his subordinates whom I won't name (but you can find it if you look). Not even the homer beat writers tried to assert otherwise. At best, you'd see euphemisms like "confusing" or "puzzling" or "unfortunate," and the like. Simple as that. It was keystone cops all the way down.

And the Denbrock hire, whether good or bad, and I'm ambivalent at best, does not address my response to SEE, which is that last year Swarbrick did NOT meaningfully support Freeman when Freeman needed it. That point is wholly independent of whether Ludwig would have been better or worse than Denbrock.