FF fires agent. While I don’t think FF is completely excused from how it all went down, firing the agent following the series in Atlanta is pretty telling.
But seriously, agents work for you. If you are not directing them according to your wishes, that's on you. The agent went out and got FF the best deal. If staying in Atl meant something to FF, then he should have instructed his agent to accept a deal with a hometown discount to assure that he re-signs.
Yeah at the end of the day if Freddie wanted this badly to stay in ATL, he has no one to blame but himself that it didn't happen.
But I can see a scenario where Freddie's agent convinced him they could still get a lot more money from ATL by leveraging other offers, and where his agent convinced him that in order for leveraging other offers to work there needed to be no communication between Freddie and ATL that did not use the agent as a middleman. Then Freddie's agent overplayed his hand without Freddie understanding what was happening and ATL moved on to Olson. It's surprising to me that ATL did not reach out to Freddie directly (not through the agent) to say something along the lines of "sign the contract that is on the table in the next hour or else we are moving on to another option."
Regardless of whether they work for you or not, players (usually rightfully so) trust that their agent has expertise in negotiations and therefore are going to usually do what the agent suggests as far as how the negotiating is handled.
I'd bet good money Freddie has another stint with Atlanta, probably to end his career. Dodgers will probably have at least one bad year in the next 6 and be sellers, or the Braves will scoop him up as a DH at the end of his contract. Unless, of course, Matt Olson wins 2 rings and an MVP, and then Freddie will be a bit of an afterthought.
Not to get ahead of ourselves but the path to us going from 10.5 back on 5/31 to leading the division by the All Star break is there. Need to take care of business in the 7 with the Nats and 3 with the Reds before the break; and also not get swept by the Mets in two weeks.
No clue about the credibility of this, but...