It was neither the time (3:45 p.m. MT, just before he was to start getting ready for a game against the Rockies) nor the place (the visiting manager’s office at Coors Field) that he might have expected it, but Jeff Francoeur’s once-heralded career with the Atlanta Braves came to an end Friday afternoon when he was called into the Bobby Cox’s office and told, “We’ve made a trade and you’ll never guess where: New York.”

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