This makes it more important than ever to properly manage the remaining valuable assets.
That extra year they gave up on Swanson, Albies and possibly Acuna will hurt even more now that the pipeline of new talent has taken such a huge hit.
But yeah, they were an above average FO that understood the cost of these early promotions. Riiiiiight.
How have AA's drafts been? If they're good maybe this won't be so bad...then again if the Braves try to compete he'd be dealing with a lesser talent level.
This is hard to try to figure out a way around...
Aggression with prospects is fine, but being stupid is not. There should be a way to find a happy medium between a Pirates like idea of being overly cautious with prospects and going stupidly fast with prospects.
It sucks that it took MLB stepping in but hopefully "the Braves way" is officially dead. And if that's what it took to get the John's out then so be it.
Stockholm, more densely populated than NYC - sturg
This is one way to take it.
All BS aside if Coppy had truly alienated his staff and his fellow GM's there was no way he was ever going to be able to take us any further. If you do not have people skills you cannot be sucessful in any business long term, much less big business.
if I'm AA I'm thanking Coppy for doing the dirty work the last 3 years, as well as making everyone hate you. I have a stacked farm system and everyone thinks I'm the "good guy" here to save the franchise.