ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta manager Brian Snitker is unsure about his future with the Braves.<\/p>\n
The 69-year-old Snitker, whose contract expires after this year, has been subjected to questions about whether he will retire following the season, his ninth as Atlanta\u2019s manager and 49th with the organization.<\/p>\n
The Braves are out of playoff contention for the first time since 2017. Snitker, who has been with the Braves organization in some capacity as a player, coach and manager since 1977, has been undecided about his retirement since he was asked about it for the first time this season on Sept. 10, when he said he was not \u201c100% sure which direction I want to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snitker still did not have his mind made up as of Sunday\u2019s season finale against the Pittsburgh Pirates.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve teetered on the fence (about retirement),\u201d Snitker said. \u201cI\u2019ve never been through this before. I wasn\u2019t sure how to navigate it. I\u2019ve talked to a lot of people who have been through it who got some good advice. I\u2019ve just tried to stay in the moment and focus on today … As we\u2019re sitting here right now, I still feel good.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snitker said the club has not reached out to him about the future.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not their fault,\u201d Snitker said. \u201cI haven\u2019t approached them. We\u2019re (going to) talk this week (after the season). That\u2019s kind of where I wanted it to go. That\u2019s on me.\u201d<\/p>\n
Braves general manager and president of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos said on Sept. 8 that Snitker will be a \u201cBrave for life\u201d but did not go into detail about the manager\u2019s immediate future.<\/p>\n
\u201c(Snitker) will be part of this organization no matter what well past when I\u2019m here,\u201d Anthopoulos said. \u201cHe\u2019s a Brave for life. (Coaching staff roles) are things we always address at the end of the year.\u201d<\/p>\n
Snitker, the 2021 World Series-winning manager, was encouraged by Atlanta\u2019s play in the final month-plus of the season, which included a 10-game winning streak from Sept. 14 to Sept. 23.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s been really encouraging,\u201d Snitker said. \u201cYou just like to see what these guys do (as a whole). It\u2019s been good how (those) guys have kept fighting.\u201d<\/p>\n
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Rick Farlow, The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ATLANTA (AP) \u2014 Atlanta manager Brian Snitker is unsure about his future with the Braves. The 69-year-old Snitker,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[363,99],"class_list":["post-188134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-mlb","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}