The Braves introduced Friday they’ve signed supervisor Brian Snitker to an extension via the 2025 season. He’d been headed into the ultimate assured yr of his contract, which additionally contained an choice for 2024. Atlanta has preemptively triggered that choice and tacked on a further season for the Illinois native.
It’s acquainted territory for Snitker, who has signed a handful of short-term extensions since taking up the dugout halfway via the 2016 season. An organizational lifer who has spent greater than 4 many years with the franchise, he stepped into nearly fast success as skipper. Snitker gained the NL’s Supervisor of the Yr Award by his second full season on the helm after overseeing an 18-win enchancment between 2017-18.
That 2018 marketing campaign noticed the Braves win 90 video games and an NL East title. It kicked off a stretch of 5 years (and counting) atop the division, one which has seen the membership play at a 90-plus win tempo in 4 of these seasons (together with the shortened 2020 schedule). The lone exception, an 88-73 exhibiting in 2021 that seemed like a relative “down” yr, was greater than salvaged in October. Regardless of carrying the worst regular-season report of any playoff crew, Atlanta knocked off the Brewers and Dodgers earlier than profitable a six-game World Collection over the Astros.
It was the Braves’ first World Collection win since 1995. The membership rewarded Snitker by exercising a 2023 choice on his contract a yr early. They didn’t replicate their playoff success final season however had their greatest regular-season exhibiting in practically twenty years. Atlanta gained 101 video games, topping the triple-digit mark for the primary time since 2003. An otherworldly second half was capped off with a late-season sweep of the Mets to all however clinch the division, erasing a deficit that had reached as excessive as 10.5 video games in the beginning of June. Sadly for Braves followers, it was the third-place Phillies who made the deepest playoff run amongst NL East golf equipment, with Philadelphia eliminating Atlanta in 4 video games throughout their Division Collection.
Whereas it clearly wasn’t the style through which the Braves envisioned their season ending, there’s no query of the success they’ve had underneath Snitker. The membership has gone 542-451 in components of seven seasons with him on the helm, a 54.6% win share. Solely the Dodgers, Astros and Yankees have an extended energetic postseason streak than Atlanta. No different membership has gained its division in 5 straight years.
The 67-year-old Snitker has actually had the fortune of working with extraordinarily gifted rosters. No supervisor is solely and even primarily liable for a membership’s successes and failures, and the Braves’ robust run is primarily due to their core of younger stars. But Snitker has helped hold the membership remarkably constant over the previous half-decade, and the entrance workplace is clearly assured in his potential to proceed doing so over the subsequent few years.
