Sad news: The head coach of Los angeles dodgers shed tears as two of his best player’s has made a final decision to terminate their contract
On Friday, Anthopoulos said he was too busy to watch Freddie Freeman’s first press conference after joining the Dodgers. between the end of the day, an indirect trade of franchise cornerstones between the teams was completed thanks to an agreement reached between the president of baseball operations of the Atlanta Braves and former Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen.
But Anthopoulos was shown snippets of Freeman’s speech. He also observed Freeman’s roiling anger at the Braves. Freeman was questioned at one point about if he had seen the video of Anthopoulos sobbing while speaking to the media on Monday following his unofficial departure from Atlanta with the acquisition of first baseman Matt Olson.
“It was them,” Freeman remarked. Yes. That is all I have to say.
Cody Bellinger of the Los Angeles Dodgers waits for his time to bat.
The concise response sent a subliminal message: Freeman, if he believed the tears to be genuine at all, didn’t really care for them. He said that Olson’s acquisition by the Braves “blindsided” him. It was an unjustifiably frigid move, in his opinion.
Anthopoulos affirmed the tears were genuine on Sunday. He praised the National League’s most valuable player of 2020 for both his on-field performance and demeanor off it. Freeman was “a partner in a lot of ways,” according to him, and he occasionally thought of him as an assistant general manager. He gave Freeman credit for playing a pivotal role in his four-year winning streak as the Braves front office manager.
