There were no shortage of stories that connected the Atlanta Braves’ front office vacancy to Dayton Moore, the Royals general manager with strong Braves ties including to John Schuerholz. Many thought that a deal would get done assuming Moore was going to be given authority over all matters related to baseball and if the money was right. However, Moore has remained loyal to the Glass family who own the Royals and the Braves were denied permission to even interview him.
Despite some local writers, notably including Bill Shanks, fervently declaring that Dayton Moore was still going to end up being the Braves and even going so far as to call for John Hart’s ouster to seemingly allow that to happen, the Braves have been fairly quietly interviewing other candidates for the job with varying degrees of autonomy necessary to acquire their services.