Atlanta Braves general manager John Coppolella has his fingerprints all over the Braves current rebuild. Involved with the team since 2006 and becoming the general manager in 2015, Coppolella was instrumental, along with John Hart, in the decision to go for a full rebuild of the team including what was, at the time, a bereft farm system. While the results on the field have been less than good during his tenure, the team has been nearly universally praised for the organization’s work building the farm system through the draft and the international free agent market.
Very suddenly, it appears that Coppolella’s tenure with the Braves have come to an end.