Opening Day is less than a week away, and pay no mind to the fact that today is April Fool’s Day — I don’t think Braves Chairman and CEO Terry McGuirk was making jokes in his interview with Tim Tucker of the Atlanta-Journal Constitution. For those of you that just want to read the stuff without synthesis or editorializing, here you go:
The main takeaway of this interview, though, I can really just blockquote:
We started last year with the 14th highest payroll (of the 30 teams), and it wasn’t too long ago that we were in the low 20s.