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Nov 21 2017 04:19pm
http://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/21506598/ex-atlanta-braves-gm-john-coppolella-placed-mlb-banned-list-team-loses-prospects?sf173932526=1

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Ex-Braves GM John Coppolella permanently banned; team loses prospects

Former Braves general manager John Coppolella has been placed on baseball's permanently ineligible list, and Atlanta will lose one of its top prospects as part of MLB's penalties against the team for rules violations in the international market.

Commissioner Rob Manfred ruled that the Braves must forfeit 13 international prospects, including highly touted Kevin Maitan, an infielder from Venezuela who signed for $4.25 million in 2016.

MLB announced the penalties Tuesday in a statement written by Manfred.

Atlanta must forfeit Maitan, Juan Contreras, Yefri del Rosario, Abrahan Gutierrez, Juan Carlos Negret, Yenci Peña, Yunior Severino, Livan Soto, Guillermo Zuniga, Brandol Mezquita, Angel Rojas, Antonio Sucre and Ji Hwan Bae.

All 13 players will become free agents and are eligible to sign with any team. Manfred also announced that the Braves have been prohibited from signing prospect Robert Puason.

Former Braves special assistant Gordon Blakeley will be suspended for one year and won't be allowed to work for any team during his suspension.

"I intend to discipline other Braves' International Baseball Operations employees who participated in the misconduct after the completion of our internal procedures," Manfred said in a statement. "My staff will speak to the Players Association and officials in the Dominican Republic regarding appropriate consequences for the representatives of the players who intentionally participated in schemes to circumvent our rules, none of whom are certified by the Players Association."

Coppolella lasted only two seasons as Atlanta's GM before being forced to resign last month after MLB announced its investigation.
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Nov 21 2017 05:31pm
what he do? bet on baseball?
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Nov 21 2017 06:24pm
Wow
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Nov 21 2017 06:34pm
Any of them good

Time for the Phillies to start paying some players
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Nov 21 2017 06:43pm
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Any of them good

Time for the Phillies to start paying some players


Yea some have potential
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#6
Nov 21 2017 07:13pm
Maitan is a huge loss
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Nov 21 2017 11:07pm
Dang they were forced to release bae
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Nov 21 2017 11:30pm
braves got hit pretty hard for something that everyone knows happens with foreign signees because of mlbs lack of an international draft or something similar
shows you can literally hack other teams and steal drafting information and use devices to steal signals during games but not sign players for their worth
loss of a decent amount of potential but nothing too bad on the braves farm which is still top 3

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Maitan is a huge loss


if by huge you mean pablo sandoval at SS then yeah

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Dang they were forced to release bae


only one of concern

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Nov 22 2017 12:01am
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Dang they were forced to release bae

I, too, enjoyed his name being Bae
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Nov 23 2017 04:02am
this is quite the article and story
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