In a story posted this morning on several newsy issues around baseball, Ken Rosenthal of FOX Sports reports that Atlanta Braves manager Fredi Gonzalez “essentially has lost the clubhouse” and questions why John Hart and the Braves Front Office would want to wait any longer in making a change at the helm.
This would not be a total surprise, given the performance of the team since “overachieving” in the first half at 42-42, but the schedule, injuries (chiefly Freddie Freeman) and trades of their better offensive weapons have left this club significantly powerless to stem the downward spiral that leaves the Braves with the 2nd-worst record in baseball and losers of their last 19 of 21 games.