Roy Clark May Be Returning To The Braves

[CrimsonCowboy]

Jeff Passan ‏@JeffPassan 4m4 minutes ago
Source: Superscout Roy Clark close to returning to Atlanta to head up scouting/player development. Brian Bridges will be scouting director.

[Jay212033]

Please God!

[The Chosen One]

Shanks must be getting a HUGE boner from this news.

[goldfly]

Shanks must be getting a HUGE boner from this news.

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Just saying

[CyYoung31]

Pretty weird that you would think about shanks boners


Just saying

SAV doesn't like to think about too much at a time.

[rico43]

Bridges is a Braves mainstay. As bio puts it:

Brian Bridges has been a southeast scout for the Atlanta Braves since 2008. He has signed David Francis, Jason Heyward, Craig Kimbrel, Mike Minor, Brett Carroll, Brett DeVall, Todd Cunningham, J.J. Hoover, Zeke Spruill and Alex Wood among others for Atlanta. Bridges previously scouted for the Florida Marlins and Anaheim Angels. He signed Rob Zimmermann for the Angels. Overall, he's had eight players make their MLB debuts since 2010.


Tells me we'll be camping out in Cobb County once again.

[thethe]

I was big of a fan of Wren as there was and defended everything he did (because it was mostly good). But, I think its clear why he was ousted. It seems nobody liked working for him.

To get a guy like Clark back into the fold is an amazing sign. This is something that should make Braves nation excited!

[50PoundHead]

Shanks must be getting a HUGE boner from this news.

Good news for the Scout board's premium content.

And having Clark back would be a solid move. He had a really good run while here and could have done more had the front office would have given him a few extra bucks to sign Rendon when they drafted him late in 2008 (guess who the GM was).

[BRule]

Gammons confirms that Clark IS back

[CrimsonCowboy]

Gammons confirms that Clark IS back

[50PoundHead]

Love those Geico "Well, did you know . . ." commercials and I'm sure the Icky Woods commercial is a little obscure for some, but for anyone who remembers Icky, it's classic!

[mossy]

[CrimsonCowboy]

http://www.baseballamerica.com/draft...ng-department/

[mossy]

[bravesnumberone]

Well if we don't do anything else good this offseason, at least we're doing very good things with our scouting department.

[VirginiaBrave]

I just don't understand why Frank was allowed to ruin the organization from ground up for as long as he was GM. If all this were going on, he should have been gone awhile ago.

[50PoundHead]

Well if we don't do anything else good this offseason, at least we're doing very good things with our scouting department.

And this little bit at the end of the BA article says it all:

However, pro scouts from rival organizations generally pan the Braves’ farm system in terms of current talent, and team president John Schuerholz cited general dissatisfaction with scouting and player development when Wren—and assistant GM Bruce Manno, who functioned as farm director—was fired last month.

Scouts in all sports rank as the most opinionated people on the planet, so it's no surprise that rival scouts would look down upon our product, but let's see what our organizational ranking is when that is released later this year. We have graduated a bunch of guys, which is good, but just because you graduate a bunch of guys doesn't mean you can afford to stop developing other guys. Most of the offensive talent in full-season ball this year projects as mid-ceiling and the pitching is very thin. No excuse for that.

[Nerfherders]

This is good, and telling that this happened almost as soon as Wren was let go. I felt for awhile that our farm system was on the low end just because we graduated so many players in such a short time, but by now there should be more quality in the pipeline. Our most recent callups have been less than inspiring.

[buck75]

Good to have Clark back..

[FreemanFan]

This is great news! Things can only get better from here.