Via BBTF, the Braves front office scandal appears to be deeper than originally reported:
Word is that Coppolella was offered a financial buyout of severance from the Braves and turned it down this past week and that he has hired an attorney with lawsuits possibly coming. I asked several scouts if they had ever heard of a fired executive being offered a severance, especially after being let go for these type allegations. All were amazed that Coppolella would be offered a financial package after being forced to resign.
For now, the Braves continue to try and conduct regular business. This past week near Orlando, the team held its organization meetings with around a dozen scouts and front office personnel. Some came in after being interviewed in New York.
John Hart, the president of baseball operations, led the meetings and many continue to wonder if Hart will face questions regarding his knowledge of what was happening.
Was Hart just an absentee executive or was he complicit in his department’s illegal actions? And will Major League Baseball formally question Hart as they have others in the organization? Why would Major League Baseball not want to know what Hart knew?
The severance sounds like hush money to me.
Note that the reaction of all this will be to double down on the rules regarding international signings. The problem, of course, is that changing the signing system from what amounted to full fledged free-agency to a highly regulated system caused the problem in the first place. Put rules in place, and people will find loopholes or ways to violate those rules. Maybe the free agency system wasn’t perfect, but we didn’t have organizations wasting their time trying to game the system. Scrap the rules now!
from baseballmusings.com http://ift.tt/2gd3I81
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