So before Fredi Gonzalez was finally axed, John Coppolella appeared on The Jonah Keri Podcast. There’s not much point in going over the brief words used to describe the difficult task in front of Fredi, because it’s now moot—Coppy may have already known he was planning to end Fredi’s tenure the same day he and Keri talked. But he said a lot of other interesting things in one of the broader looks at his life and processes that we’ve gotten to see (or in this case, hear, and you should listen to the whole thing if you’ve got the time):
Coppy said he knew that Jason Heyward was gone after 2015; not only that, he said he didn’t blame him.