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Atlanta Braves hire GM Alex Anthopoulos

By Fred Owens

TORONTO, CANADA - JANUARY 8: R.A. Dickey #43 (L) of the Toronto Blue Jays is introduced at a press conference as he shakes hands with general manager Alex Anthopoulos at Rogers Centre on January 8, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
TORONTO, CANADA - JANUARY 8: R.A. Dickey #43 (L) of the Toronto Blue Jays is introduced at a press conference as he shakes hands with general manager Alex Anthopoulos at Rogers Centre on January 8, 2013 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) /
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TORONTO, CANADA – APRIL 4: General manager Alex Anthopoulos of the Toronto Blue Jays talks to media befoe MLB game action against the New York Yankees on April 4, 2014 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images)
TORONTO, CANADA – APRIL 4: General manager Alex Anthopoulos of the Toronto Blue Jays talks to media befoe MLB game action against the New York Yankees on April 4, 2014 at Rogers Centre in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. (Photo by Tom Szczerbowski/Getty Images) /

The Atlanta Braves moved cautiously forward in the last week, hiring coaches and making minor personnel moves. After pining for Dayton Moore for weeks, Sunday night we heard they’ve hired Alex Anthopoulos as the new GM.

When I started writing this it was a post about the internal disagreement between John Schuerholz – who wanted Jim Hendry – and John Hart who favored Anthopoulus. I had decided to lay out each man’s less than successful past for everyone to chew on.

As I was proof reading I learned that Anthopoulos had been hired.

Sherman’s earlier post indicated that Hart had usurped Schuerholz as McGuirk’s go to guy for baseball advice. McGuirk’s hiring of  hired Anthopoulos as the team’s final decision-maker in baseball-related matters seems to verify that feeling.

Hart keeps the title of president of baseball operations for now but becomes a “counsel/figurehead”.  Oddly that was the role Schuerholz took after his retirement in 2007.

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