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Slowhand wrote:

Derek Jeter doesn't even own the Marlins yet, but he already has informed the team that he plans to fire two special assistants who are in Baseball's Hall of Fame (Andre Dawson and Tony Perez), the manager who led them to the 2003 World Series championship (Jack McKeon) and the player known as Mr. Marlin (Jeff Conine), according to two MLB sources.

And here's the twist: Jeter asked Marlins president David Samson to fire those four Marlins luminaries for him, because Jeter didn't want to do it.

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Bill McNeal wrote:Just saw that the nationals at the end of the season will have played 120 games against teams under .500

smitty wrote:

Bill McNeal wrote:Just saw that the nationals at the end of the season will have played 120 games against teams under .500

Only seven NL teams above .500. But you're right. The NL east sucks except for the Nats. And that helps.

JeffPassan
Sources: Major League Baseball has been investigating Braves GM John Coppolella in recent weeks. @Ken_Rosenthal says he plans on resigning.
Numerous issues with John Coppolella came up as the league looked into the situation. At least one anonymous complaint was filed with MLB.
The Braves organization has been a wasteland of infighting in recent weeks, according to numerous sources. Chaos centered around Coppolella.
Early on in investigation, little evidence had been found to corroborate a number of accusations levied against Coppolella, per sources.
MLB was looking into everything from Braves' int'l operations to its domestic draft to Coppolella's treatment of Braves employees.

Ken_Rosenthal
BREAKING: #Braves GM John Coppolella expected to resign today, sources tell The Athletic.
Resignation of Coppolella believed to stem in part from issues with #Braves’ talent acquisition in Latin America.

BNightengale
The #Braves make it official. John Coppolella is out for violation of international rules. It's unlikely he will re-surface in #MLB

Last year, a prominent agent received a phone call from a 770 number. On the other end was John Coppolella, the general manager of the Atlanta Braves. He wanted to talk about one of the agent’s clients. The agent found this particularly curious, not because the Braves liked the player but because he was playing for a different organization and it was August, a full 2½ months before he would hit free agency. Never before had he seen a general manager so blatantly disregard tampering rules.

The domestic allegations are unlikely to carry the severity of penalty as the alleged international misdeeds, though the anonymous complaints offered a number of threads to investigate. One involves Drew Waters, a second-round pick this season whom the Braves allegedly offered under-the-table benefits to sign for under the slot value. In interviews with the league, Coppolella and Keith Grunewald, Waters’ agent, denied the allegations, saying that Coppolella’s offer of a car to bridge the difference between the $1.5 million he signed for and the $1.675 million slot value was made in jest, according to sources. When reached by Yahoo Sports, Grunewald declined comment.

Agents across the game said Coppolella is particularly aggressive in trying to cut pre-draft deals with amateur players, a practice in which other teams engage but is frowned upon and, taken in concert with other violations, could deepen the team’s penalties. It dovetails with Coppolella’s modus operandi as GM, in which his assertiveness – multiple GMs still recoil at the 2,000-plus word text messages he has sent – soured them.

td11 wrote:Sign maitan please