Right from the start after John Hart and John Coppolella took over the Braves’ Front Office, it seems they were intent on changing their team in a big way. On October 2nd, 2014, Atlanta hired longtime Yankees International scout Gordon Blakeley, and almost immediately started to go after the farm full of prospects that both Coppolella (a former Yankee employee himself) and Blakeley knew all too well.
How hard did they pursue Yankee prospects? Several tweets came across last night from MLB Network’s Jon Heyman about a trade possibility that would have stunned fans of both teams:
Heyward/simmons/carpenter/bj upton/c Johnson for severino/judge/banuelos/clarkin/sanchez said floated.