Former Braves pitching coach Leo Mazzone -- one of the stalwarts during the team's unprecedented run of 14 consecutive division titles from 1991-2005 -- only has a 25 percent chance of making the Hall of Fame, writes Graham Womack as part of a lengthy profile on Mazzone for the Sporting News.
Despite Mazzone’s long-time success developing young pitchers like Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and Greg Maddux into Hall of Famers, Womack writes that no one has yet been inducted as an assistant coach, and Mazzone has only a decent chance to be the first.
The Mazzone profile goes deep into his career, and relays stories from the 1990s Braves teams. He says, as much publicity as Glavine, Smoltz and Maddux received, the winning culture went way beyond them.
“There was a whole lot more to it than those three guys,” Mazzone said. “And we had the third guy after we’d been to the World Series twice.”
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