The Atlanta Braves have a new manager in 2026. Brian Snitker has informed the team that he will not continue in the Dugout after the 2025 season, ESPN’s Jeff Passan report. Snitker stays with the organization as a senior adviser, but will hand over the reins in the Dugout to a new rent. De Braves formally announced the decision, just a few minutes after the report from Passan and added that Snitker will be recorded in the Atlanta Braves Hall of Fame prior to a match next season.
The 69-year-old Snitker has spent over the past decade as the Braves manager, but has been in the organization for 49 years. He is previously managed at almost every minor League level in the system and has held roles as the Major League Bullpen Coach and the third base coach.
Snitker was appointed interim manager in May 2016, when the organization fired the then skipper Fredi Gonzalez, who had been working since 2011. Snitker quickly left the interim label that was out of season outside the season after a club in Atlanta who started the season in a 9-28 Swoon in a 9-28 Swoon Ralled to a more respectable 59-65 show. Snitker signed a two -year contract to see the team through a rebuilding, but came forward as a mainstay in the Dugout on the other side of that youth movement. De Braves won 90 games in 2018, which led to not only their first postseas appearance in five years, but also an NL manager of the year victory for Snitker.
Atlanta has since expanded Snitker several times. The Braves Organization Lifer has compiled an 811-668 record as the skipper of the big league, supervision of seven post-season berths (including six straight division titles) and of course the team led to a victory in the 2021 World Series. He will resign as the skipper with the second most victories in the history of Atlanta Braves, with only Bobby Cox’s 2,149. (Frank Selee’s 1,004 victories for the then Boston Beaneaters in the late 1800s are technically second in the history of franchis.)
Brian Snitker was confronted with many questions about his future throughout the season
The 2025 season was the last year of Snitker’s contract. Between that and the fact that he will be 70 later this month, he has confronted many questions and speculation about his future throughout the season. He has remained without obligation and concentrated on his duties in the Dugout, but has never rejected the opportunity to continue as a manager. Likewise, president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos said late in the season That he had “absolutely not” started laying the basis for a potential management search, in which he called the idea of ​​doing this “completely disrespectful” for Snitker and his inheritance within the organization.
Anthopoulos will now seriously start with a management study. Unbelievable, the new recruitment will only be the fourth Braves manager since 1990. Cox led the 1990-2010 team, with Gonzalez who stepped from 2011-16 and Snitker has been helping the club since then. It is common in situations such as this for an organization to enable its coaching staff to at least explore new opportunities, since a new manager generally gets a lot of control over the rest of his Dugout staff. That does not mean that next year Atlanta will have a completely new cast of coaches; Some members of the current staff can even be considered for the newly created vacancy. Bench coach Walt Weiss, for example, has four years of experience in the Major League Managing and has served Snitker’s right hand since 2018.
Snitker’s decision to resign means that there is now a remarkable eight Teams looking for a new manager this season outside season – with the possibility of still existing turnover, depending on the decisions of clubs that are still alive in the late season. The Nationals, Orioles and Rockies all ended the 2025 season with interim managers after firing their skippers in the middle season. The twins and giants Rocco Baldelli And Bob Melvin After the season. The 2025 season was the last year of Bruce Bochy’s contract in Texas, and he Don’t return to the Rangers in 2026. And the Angels, who elevated Ray Montgomery to Interim manager after Ron Washington needed a heart surgery in the mid -season, have announced that Montgomery nor Washington will return Next year to their club. This winter will be the most active low season in recent history with regard to management activity.
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