I’ll admit… I was a skeptic.
After being unimpressed by a lackluster, low-energy start to the 2016 Atlanta Braves season, it was my opinion that Atlanta should move as far away from anyone even remotely associated with Fredi Gonzalez as possible, with the exception of maybe Eddie Perez. Even a few weeks into Brian Snitker‘s interim term, I wasn’t sold.
By early July my optimism about the direction of the Braves organization under Copolella’s leadership had grown, however, and I wrote a column urging estranged fans take off the blinders and look at the big picture.