On October 1, 2015 the Atlanta Braves announced that John Coppolella was being promoted to General Manger and had signed a four-year contract. But that wasn’t the beginning of the 37-years-old (yes, Coppy is only 37) days in Atlanta.
Coppy joined the Braves organization in 2006 as Director of Baseball Operations and worked his way up the latter to Assistant General Manager in 2012. Once Frank Wren was fired in 2014, John Hart took over with Coppy heavily involved. Then the official move came in October of 2015.
With the two John’s in place, the entire organization took a complete left turn.