So much for a boring Monday with no baseball news.

BREAKING: #Braves GM John Coppolella expected to resign today, sources tell The Athletic.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 2, 2017

Resignation of Coppolella believed to stem in part from issues with #Braves’ talent acquisition in Latin America.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 2, 2017

Special assistant to the GM Gordon Blakeley also involved in issues #Braves are facing, sources tell The Athletic.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 2, 2017

Jeff Passan adds a little detail here.

Sources: Major League Baseball has been investigating Braves GM John Coppolella in recent weeks. @Ken_Rosenthal says he plans on resigning.

— Jeff Passan (@JeffPassan) October 2, 2017

And then the Braves confirmed it.

#Braves confirm Coppolella resignation, citing breach of rules in international market.

— Ken Rosenthal (@Ken_Rosenthal) October 2, 2017

Obviously, with this little information out there, it’s impossible to know what went down, but if it really leads to Coppolella resigning as GM, it has to be pretty serious. MLB has punished teams for breaking rules surrounding international signings before, but it hasn’t led to a high-level executive being pushed out since 2009, when Jim Bowden resigned in the wake of allegations of a host of improprieties under his regime.

For the Braves, this is obviously not how they wanted their offseason to begin. John Hart seemingly remains as the team’s president of baseball operations, and will likely handle the regular GM duties until the team finds a replacement, but with the team just recently bringing in several new assistant GMs and restructuring the front office, it will be interesting to see how the new front office will operate. An outside hire would likely want to bring in their own staff, so I wouldn’t be surprised if Hart just served as the team’s de facto GM for 2018.

Either way, the Braves are going to have to make more decisions now than they had planned on, and it will be interesting to see whether any course direction is made coming off a disappointing season and now a resignation of the team’s GM.