{"id":947999,"date":"2026-10-31T20:54:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:54:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947999\/"},"modified":"2026-10-31T20:54:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-31T20:54:10","slug":"braves-hire-dana-brown-for-scouting-advisor-role","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/947999\/","title":{"rendered":"Braves Hire Dana Brown For Scouting Advisor Role"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Braves are reuniting with Dana Brown as a senior advisor in their amateur scouting department, as per USA Today\u2019s Bob Nightengale<\/a>.\u00a0 It\u2019s a homecoming for Brown, who worked as Atlanta\u2019s VP of scouting from 2019-22 before he was hired as the Astros\u2019 general manager.<\/p>\n

Brown and Braves president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos have a long working relationship dating back to their days in Montreal, when Anthopoulos was Brown\u2019s assistant when Brown was hired as the Expos\u2019 director of amateur scouting in 2002.\u00a0 Brown continued in that role with the Expos\/Nationals through the franchise\u2019s move to Washington and until 2009, when Anthopoulos (now the Blue Jays\u2019 GM) hired Brown for a special assistant\u2019s role in Toronto.\u00a0 Once Anthopoulos was hired by the Braves following the 2017 season, Brown reunited with Anthopoulos once more within a couple of years.<\/p>\n

The Astros\u2019 hiring of Brown was a rare case of a team making a front office change right after a World Series title, as former GM James Click was let go after the playoff run due to clashes with owner Jim Crane (who is known for playing a direct role in baseball operations).\u00a0 While Brown didn\u2019t capture a championship during his time in Houston, he also had a much better record than most GMs who are shown the door.\u00a0 Houston made the ALCS in 2023 and won two AL West titles in Brown\u2019s three full seasons as GM, and the Astros even ended up winning the division again this year, albeit with an 81-81 record.<\/p>\n

Since that last ALCS trip, however, the Astros haven\u2019t won a playoff game, let alone a series.\u00a0 Between their short-lived 2024 postseason run and missing the playoffs altogether in 2025, there was plenty of buzz that Brown and manager Joe Espada were both in danger of being replaced.\u00a0 The speculation proved to be correct, as the Astros parted ways with Brown in August and Espada was officially let go a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n

In the aftermath of the Astros job, it\u2019s no surprise that Brown is again teaming with Anthopoulos and a lot of other familiar faces in the Braves\u2019 front office.\u00a0 Brown brings decades of scouting experience to his (somewhat) new position, and may more or less be able to pick right up where he left off before he left Atlanta for Houston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Braves are reuniting with Dana Brown as a senior advisor in their amateur scouting department, as per…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":948000,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,232872,591,85],"class_list":["post-947999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-dana-brown","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=947999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/947999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/948000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=947999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=947999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=947999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}