Bob Horner’s nine seasons with the Atlanta Braves tenure were rocky almost from the beginning.
Horner barely had time to polish his 1978 National League Rookie of the Year trophy before the Braves’ front office tried to cut his salary by more than 20 percent, resulting in a dispute that landed the two sides in arbitration the following spring. Horner eventually signed for $130,000, the largest salary ever for a second-year player at the time.
But the salary disagreement that cut into Horner’s 1979 spring paled in comparison to the acrimony between the slugger and agent Bucky Woy and the Braves during the 1986-87 offseason.