re: 2022 MLB Predictions

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But I had the Braves winning and AA getting revenge on his old team.

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Why would he look to get revenge? Is because he wasn’t granted full responsibilities of a GM when Shapiro took over as team president in 2015 like he did under the previous? Baseball is a business. AA and Shapiro didn’t see eye to eye and didn’t share the same sense of direction. AA rejected a 5 year extension because of Shapiro. He loved Toronto and they loved him but Shapiro didn’t.

Reading more into it, I find it interesting how different AA was as the GM with the Blue Jays compared being the GM with the Braves. With the Jays, he traded away top prospects to get players like Price, Tulowitski, etc. Also, I didn’t realize included Noah Syndergaard in that trade to get RA Dickey.