do with the Braves payroll, read this. This is from the Braves beat writer.
http://atlantabraves.blog.ajc.com/2016/05/10/braves-future-looks-a-lot-brighter-than-present/
Braves general manager John Coppolella and I were discussing the team’s brutal start and Fredi Gonzalez’s job status and other matters Friday when the GM reiterated that, as disappointed and upset as everyone is over the major league team’s performance, it doesn’t change the front-office view of the big picture.
Entering Tuesday’s game against the Phillies, Matt Wisler has a 2.70 ERA and .198 opponents’ average in his past 12 games including 10 starts. (Getty Images)
That is, the Braves believe their rebuild was necessary to build a long-term sustainable contender, rather than continuing to try to plug holes each winter and try to field a competitive team.
(He didn’t say this, but it’s pretty obvious: You can’t be a serious contender doing it that way when the purse strings are as tight as Liberty ownership has made them for the Braves in recent years. When Ted Turner was the sugar-daddy owner and the Braves were a top-five payroll team, yes, they could buy a couple of free agents and trade for a couple high-priced players, add them to a solid farm system and, voila, annual division titles. But not when your team has sunk to bottom-five payroll level, where the Braves are at least until they move into the new ballpark, at which point they say the payroll will rise significantly.)
He says later in the interview that the Braves want the franchise to have players under their control over a longer period of time. Braves fans had better hope that if these players pan out that someone else, who is invested in operating a championship-level franchise, is owning the team when they become free agents, or the likelihood of the Braves doing this again is still there.
http://atlantabraves.blog.ajc.com/2016/05/10/braves-future-looks-a-lot-brighter-than-present/
Braves general manager John Coppolella and I were discussing the team’s brutal start and Fredi Gonzalez’s job status and other matters Friday when the GM reiterated that, as disappointed and upset as everyone is over the major league team’s performance, it doesn’t change the front-office view of the big picture.
Entering Tuesday’s game against the Phillies, Matt Wisler has a 2.70 ERA and .198 opponents’ average in his past 12 games including 10 starts. (Getty Images)
That is, the Braves believe their rebuild was necessary to build a long-term sustainable contender, rather than continuing to try to plug holes each winter and try to field a competitive team.
(He didn’t say this, but it’s pretty obvious: You can’t be a serious contender doing it that way when the purse strings are as tight as Liberty ownership has made them for the Braves in recent years. When Ted Turner was the sugar-daddy owner and the Braves were a top-five payroll team, yes, they could buy a couple of free agents and trade for a couple high-priced players, add them to a solid farm system and, voila, annual division titles. But not when your team has sunk to bottom-five payroll level, where the Braves are at least until they move into the new ballpark, at which point they say the payroll will rise significantly.)
He says later in the interview that the Braves want the franchise to have players under their control over a longer period of time. Braves fans had better hope that if these players pan out that someone else, who is invested in operating a championship-level franchise, is owning the team when they become free agents, or the likelihood of the Braves doing this again is still there.
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