The Atlanta Braves moved cautiously forward in the last week, hiring coaches and making minor personnel moves. After pining for Dayton Moore for weeks, Sunday night we heard they’ve hired Alex Anthopoulos as the new GM.
When I started writing this it was a post about the internal disagreement between John Schuerholz – who wanted Jim Hendry – and John Hart who favored Anthopoulus. I had decided to lay out each man’s less than successful past for everyone to chew on.
As I was proof reading I learned that Anthopoulos had been hired.
Can report now Anthopoulos is getting #Braves GM job, announcement possible at GM Meetings
— Joel Sherman (@Joelsherman1) November 13, 2017
Sherman’s earlier post indicated that Hart had usurped Schuerholz as McGuirk’s go to guy for baseball advice. McGuirk’s hiring of hired Anthopoulos as the team’s final decision-maker in baseball-related matters seems to verify that feeling.
Hart keeps the title of president of baseball operations for now but becomes a “counsel/figurehead”. Oddly that was the role Schuerholz took after his retirement in 2007.