When I was at the Winter Meetings in Nashville in December and the Braves/Diamondbacks trade went down, bewilderment ran wild among all writers, reporters and TV analysts. The general immediate reaction was, “The Braves got Dansby Swanson? For Shelby Miller? How did Coppy do that? Does he work for the mob?”
After the kerfuffle settled from John Coppolella robbing the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and the initial shock had escaped the Gaylord Opryland Resort, calmer murmurings from writers began to spread. “Dude. They got Ender Inciarte, too.” Or you’d hear, “Wait.