After the 2014 season, the Atlanta Braves had a serious problem. The major-league team was coming off another September collapse and overall was just mediocre. Bogged down by bad contracts, under performing players, and impending free agents, the long-term outlook was bleak.
Add all that to a minor-league system that was one of the worst in baseball and you can see the important crossroads the Braves found themselves at in the winter of 2014.
Frank Wren was fired as GM and John Hart was brought in to oversee the rebuild. John Coppolella was quickly named his right-hand man and while the exact dynamic of their roles was unclear early on, eventually Coppy was named GM and Hart the President of Baseball Operations.