October 12, 2007

Bye Bye John, Hello Glavine?

Braves' long-time GM, John Schuerholz, stepped down this morning from his duties, moving up, ironically, to become President of the team. As you may remember, one of the reasons Tom Glavine did not resign with the Braves' before last season was do to the publication, in Schuerholz's book, of the details of Glavine's unsuccessful contract negotiations with the Braves prior to Glavine joining the Mets. Assistant GM Frank Wren moves up to take Schuerholz's place, and this might mean that they will target both Glavine and their own free agent, Andruw Jones, both of whom would not have been in a Braves uni if Schuerholz still ran the show. Although he is president, Wren will be responsible for all player signings and transactions, with input from Schuerholz, of course. However, with Schuerholz stepping into a new position, might Bobby Cox be a year away from doing the same? Will they remain interested in signing Texiera when his contract runs out after this season? Whatever happens, an entire new wrinkle was just introduced into this off-season. Who needs a television drama to follow when we have the off-season?

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

see you later John

Anonymous said...

Please take John

Anonymous said...

Sorry meant Glavine

Anonymous said...

maybe this is the end of the braves killing the atlanta area drafting?

Anonymous said...

who cares...they're gonna take glavine...which could be a destroying factor