Awful look from Baseball America, no clue what they’re thinking.
Vironic
He did his time and he’s reinstated. Good for him.
Wandering_Mallard
Coppy obviously broke the rules, but he was still a smart GM outside of that. I’m not advocating for him to be reinstated but I’m still looking forward to reading his perspective on BA
Regal---Lager
His only real crime was allegedly sending 2,000 word TEXT MESSAGES to other GMs
I_am_Burt_Macklin
OOTL what did he do?
North-Rhubarb1410
Last I heard, he was an executive at Home Depot. That’s where he needs to still be
Bigboi88888
Probably because you’re an old bastard who got banned from the MLB for 5 years
DetectiveTrickyCad
I know the general sentiment here is that he’s a bad guy for breaking the rules, but I really think his crime, insofar as he was deviating from other teams’ practices, was getting caught. The federal government was investigating a different team around the same time for doing basically the same thing he got banned (and then unbanned) for and it’s an open secret that every team did/does sketchy deals with literal children in Latin America.
Guymcpersonman2
I’m just surprised at Baseball America. There’s no way the insight of this guy is worth the backlash.
InvasionXX
Carlos Beltran is in the HOF. This guy can write for Baseball America.
2muchflannel
Guys got in real trouble for what ATL was doing in Latin America and that makes it easy to overlook what they were doing domestically
The Braves developed relations with high school and AAU coached across Braves territory and had those coaches under report player metrics to scouting networks while giving the Braves scouts accurate info. This reduced interest for guys who should have been considered top tier prospects, losing those prospects signing bonus money.
The most blatant example is Jason Hayward. If not for this market manipulation, Hayward goes top 5 out of high school and gets a much larger signing bonus than he got from the Braves at iirc 13th overall
Vivid_Ad_1016
A lot may hate you in Braves country, Coppy, but they can never make me hate you. He knew how to build a farm system, i can only imagine the wonders he could have done with this new PPI system and how persistent he was to get our guys ranked
draw2discard2
I don’t have a dog in this fight but the self righteousness about this is (characteristically for Reddit) over the top. He basically engaged in white collar crime (though not criminal per se) and to the extent that much more significant white collar crime does not prevent someone from owning New York’s second most prestigious baseball team the precedent seems to be on the side of rehabilitation.
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Awful look from Baseball America, no clue what they’re thinking.
He did his time and he’s reinstated. Good for him.
Coppy obviously broke the rules, but he was still a smart GM outside of that. I’m not advocating for him to be reinstated but I’m still looking forward to reading his perspective on BA
His only real crime was allegedly sending 2,000 word TEXT MESSAGES to other GMs
OOTL what did he do?
Last I heard, he was an executive at Home Depot. That’s where he needs to still be
Probably because you’re an old bastard who got banned from the MLB for 5 years
I know the general sentiment here is that he’s a bad guy for breaking the rules, but I really think his crime, insofar as he was deviating from other teams’ practices, was getting caught. The federal government was investigating a different team around the same time for doing basically the same thing he got banned (and then unbanned) for and it’s an open secret that every team did/does sketchy deals with literal children in Latin America.
I’m just surprised at Baseball America. There’s no way the insight of this guy is worth the backlash.
Carlos Beltran is in the HOF. This guy can write for Baseball America.
Guys got in real trouble for what ATL was doing in Latin America and that makes it easy to overlook what they were doing domestically
The Braves developed relations with high school and AAU coached across Braves territory and had those coaches under report player metrics to scouting networks while giving the Braves scouts accurate info. This reduced interest for guys who should have been considered top tier prospects, losing those prospects signing bonus money.
The most blatant example is Jason Hayward. If not for this market manipulation, Hayward goes top 5 out of high school and gets a much larger signing bonus than he got from the Braves at iirc 13th overall
A lot may hate you in Braves country, Coppy, but they can never make me hate you. He knew how to build a farm system, i can only imagine the wonders he could have done with this new PPI system and how persistent he was to get our guys ranked
I don’t have a dog in this fight but the self righteousness about this is (characteristically for Reddit) over the top. He basically engaged in white collar crime (though not criminal per se) and to the extent that much more significant white collar crime does not prevent someone from owning New York’s second most prestigious baseball team the precedent seems to be on the side of rehabilitation.