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Braves surprising top candidate is a 2-time World Series champion with strong Alex Anthopoulos ties
The Atlanta Braves had one of the most disappointing seasons in all of Major League Baseball last year. Longtime manager Brian Snitker had never experienced a season quite that bad during his tenure. Given that, many believed Snitker wouldn’t return.
“Because of that consistent recent success, Snit would normally be afforded a ‘mulligan’ year—even though going from the second-best preseason World Series odds to possibly the third-best odds of winning the draft lottery is a pretty serious mulligan,” Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller wrote. “At 69, though, he's already the oldest manager in the National League by a several-year margin and was likely to retire at the e