One of the principle architects – unless I miss my guess, the chief architect – of the worst Braves season in a quarter-century was promoted Thursday. Assistant general manager John Coppolella shed the first word of his title and was handed a contract that runs through 2019. Maybe you think that’s a case of failure being rewarded. Here’s where I say you’re wrong.
And maybe you think that the GM title has become devalued, that what general managers did is now done by the president of baseball operations, who for the Braves remains John Hart, who said, “We’ll still have the same decision-making process as before.