Atlanta announced Monday that it has hired Walt Weiss to take over as the 49th manager in franchise history.<\/p>\n
Weiss, 61, has been a part of the Braves organization for 11 seasons and had served as the team’s bench coach since 2018. He was a player with Atlanta from 1998 to 2000, appearing in 286 games with the club, earning an all-star nod in that ’98 campaign.<\/p>\n
A 14-year MLB veteran, Weiss spent time with Oakland, Florida, Colorado and Atlanta as a player, winning AL Rookie of the Year in 1988 and the 1989 World Series with the Athletics.<\/p>\n
This will be Weiss’s second time managing an MLB team. He previously served as the Rockies manager from 2013 to 2016. In those four seasons, he went 283-365 and never finished higher than third in the NL West.<\/p>\n
The job in Atlanta was open for the first time since 2016, when the Braves took an interim tag off Brian Snitker.<\/p>\n
Snitker announced his retirement following the 2025 season. His 10 seasons at the helm were among the most successful in Braves history. Atlanta made the post-season in seven of Snitker’s 10 years, going 811-668, winning the NL East in six straight seasons and the World Series in 2021.<\/p>\n
In 2025, however, Atlanta disappointed with a 76-win season, finishing fourth in the division and missing out on the playoffs for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Atlanta announced Monday that it has hired Walt Weiss to take over as the 49th manager in franchise…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259766,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[435],"tags":[49,48,462,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-259765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-mlb","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}