The Atlanta Braves, who employed just three managers in the past 36 seasons, are keeping it in the family in replacing the retiring Brian Snitker.
Walt Weiss, Snitker’s bench coach since 2018, was hired as manager, the club announced Nov. 3, the second shot Weiss has had at a top dugout job.
Weiss, 61, spent four seasons as Colorado Rockies manager from 2013-2016, finishing last in the NL West twice and in third place, with 75 wins, in his final season. Snitker, 69, announced his retirement shortly after the season, concluding a stint of nine full seasons in which the Braves made the playoffs in all but his first and last season.
Their seven-season run of success under Snitker peaked in 2021, when they won the World Series in six games against the Houston Astros.
Now, Weiss will succeed Snitker, Fredi Gonzalez and Bobby Cox as the lone Braves managers since Cox took over for Russ Nixon during the 1990 season. He was the 1988 Rookie of the Year for the Oakland Athetics and played 14 seasons, his last three in Atlanta.
The Braves finished 76-86 last season, their first losing season since 2017, but the injury-addled club did post a 30-24 record the final two months of the season.