The general manager of the Atlanta Braves believes the team rebuild is ahead of schedule:
“In a lot of the trades we made in the 2014-2015 offseason, the players were a lot further away,” Coppolella said. “With these two trades, you really got six players (big-leaguers Erick Aybar and Ender Iciarte; pitchers Aaron Blair, Sean Newcomb and Chris Ellis, plus Dansby Swanson, the No. 1 pick of last year’s draft) you could see in 2016. A lot of the deals we made last year … were more to restart the system than have major-league impact in the short term.”
Five year plans don’t seem to be the norm anymore. A good GM can go from poor to playoffs in two or three years if he is indeed willing to do a complete tear down and concentrate on developing young talent. As we saw with the Astros, Cubs, and Twins in 2015, young teams can surprise.
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