Well, that happened all in a hurry. Tony Clark is out, and he\u2019s out not because of some politicized or tactical derailment, but because of what looks like a series of bad personal decisions. The news of his resignation apparently came as a shock to players, who now need to approve interim leadership as they hurtle towards another set of fractious labor negotiations with ownership this winter (and beyond).<\/p>\n
Who is going to receive that interim mantle isn\u2019t clear, to say nothing of longer-term responsibility. Bruce Meyer exists, and has already survived one attempted ouster, but clearly isn\u2019t unanimously popular with players or the ouster attempt wouldn\u2019t have materialized. To the extent Meyer\u2019s fortunes were tied to Clark\u2019s, well\u2026 that\u2019s not auspicious. (The three players that were instrumental in trying to move on from Meyer \u2014 Ian Happ, Lucas Giolito, and Jack Flaherty \u2014 all lost their committee spots in the aftermath.)<\/p>\n
Scott Boras is always lurking around the periphery, but is apparently unpopular enough with players that aren\u2019t his clients that they accuse him of having \u201coutsize\u201d influence in union proceedings here and there. He probably doesn\u2019t have the buy-in to get a nod, but he\u2019s also very pugnacious and persistent.<\/p>\n
Harry Marino was the MiLB CBA negotiator that Happ and the Harvard-Westlake boys wanted to replace Meyer, but since that coup attempt failed, it\u2019s unclear whether there\u2019s any more wind blowing in those particular sails.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s harder to speculate on outside hires, because the field is so large. That said, it appears to be unnecessary, because as Brent Suter suggested yesterday, the players already know who\u2019s next up and aren\u2019t going to conduct a search at this moment. That seems to point to Meyer just because he\u2019s an obvious ready, able, and willing option, but surprising things have happened before.<\/p>\n
Anyway, get to guessing. We\u2019ll probably find out soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Well, that happened all in a hurry. Tony Clark is out, and he\u2019s out not because of some…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":579357,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2394],"tags":[191,46,73299,4166,5,192,4],"class_list":{"0":"post-579356","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-atlanta","9":"tag-atlanta-braves","10":"tag-atlanta-braves-discussion","11":"tag-atlantabraves","12":"tag-baseball","13":"tag-braves","14":"tag-mlb"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116092124937052364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=579356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/579356\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/579357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=579356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=579356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=579356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}