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AA will finally have the opportunity to choose his own guy. He's kind of been saddled with Snit since he got here, and had no opportunity to fire him since they've made the playoffs every year besides this one. He's handled it admirably, but now he really needs to make the right choice.

Weiss should be given a token interview if he wants the job, but should not be under serious consideration. Him and Fredi should both leave after a new manager is chosen.

Well his job is to fill seats, and the Braves drew nearly 3 million fans again. I highly doubt he is on the hot seat. There doesn't appear to be any pressure to win in Atlanta.

Interesting that other teams have been having their GMs speak to the media for end of season press conferences, but we haven't heard anything out of the Braves yet.

This thread made me realize how long I've been hanging around these boards. My earliest memories of joining the Shanks board was 2005 NLDS. I literally followed along to the 18 inning playoff game against the Astros for the entire game thread. Sad to see message boards like this dying out. You...

It sucks to see Fried have such a good outing in his first postseason game for the Yankees, especially after how many disastrous outings he had for the Braves in the playoffs. At least we'll always have world series game 6.

Was just reading an article on MLBTradeRumors about Ron Washington and if he's coming back to coach the Angels next year. An interesting thought I hadn't considered was brought up, in that teams may be hesitant to bring on a new manager next year because of the impending lockout in the year...

Looks like Morton is now listed as the probable starter for Sunday.

That's true, but there has also been serious underperformance which is more concerning.

I agree with this. I mean, just watching the games and observing him in the dugout, he looks disconnected. There is no visible connection to his players, who it appears he just lets them go about their business without interjecting.

Another article on Waldrep's stuff https://pitcherlist.com/hurston-waldrep-is-finding-his-groove/

Great Waldrep article on Fangraphs today. Even addressing some of the pre draft hype towards his pitches. https://blogs.fangraphs.com/i-am-declaring-victory-i-was-right-about-hurston-waldrep-all-along/

Speaking of dodged bullets. D'Arnaud having a rough year in Anaheim

Poll on mlbtraderumors today https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2025/08/poll-nl-rookie-of-the-year-check-in.html

I don't see him selling either. But my thoughts are that's for the fan base, in hopes of keeping attendance up. Feels like there is a large portion of the fan base who is dumb enough to believe the team is still a contender this year.

My biggest observation is that it doesn't appear Snitker is any longer the guy to get the most out of his players. Whether he was ever that guy is debatable. But as others have noted, there seems to be a real leadership issue, and nobody seems to be held accountable. That seems to have led to an...

I know he sucks right now, but we could very easily make Albies that guy.

Have to factor in the reaction on this board at the time. I'm not sure anyone here expected he'd still be performing at this level at this age. In fact I'm pretty sure the general consensus is that first baseman age horribly. So hindsight is 20/20.

I always have had the impression that AA didn't want to keep Snit but has no choice. Especially due to the success of the team since AA has been here. Feels like it would be a PR disaster to fire a manager who hasn't even missed the playoffs since AA got here.

Same, and now I got an email saying my inbox is full here lol. All spam