PHOENIX -- Braves president of baseball operations John Hart and general manager John Coppolella have come to this week's General Managers Meetings with an agenda that differs from the ones they carried to this event the previous two years, when they were engineering a massive rebuilding process.
Instead of feeling the need to create financial flexibility or overhaul their farm system by trading some of their most popular and proven players, the Braves have come to Arizona with a desire to move closer to filling some of those holes that are blocking their path toward a return to respectability and potential prominence.