{"id":59221,"date":"2025-06-03T00:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59221"},"modified":"2025-06-03T00:09:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T00:09:11","slug":"braves-replace-third-base-coach-with-last-person-anyone-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59221","title":{"rendered":"Braves replace third base coach with last person anyone expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"inline-text-0\">Prior to their series against the Arizona Diamondbacks beginning on Tuesday, the Atlanta Braves announced a change, demoting Matt Tuiasosopo from third base coach duties. While it&#8217;s rare to see base coaches get demoted midseason, it isn&#8217;t shocking that the Braves lost their patience with Tuiasosopo. His replacement being Fredi Gonzalez, though, <em>is<\/em> shocking.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<p id=\"inline-text-2\">Gonzalez managed the Braves for parts of six seasons and had some good moments, going 434-413 before getting fired during the middle of the 2016 campaign, and getting replaced by Brian Snitker, who is still in that same position today.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-3\">Now, this isn&#8217;t Gonzalez&#8217;s first time as a third base coach in Atlanta, as he served in that position before he became manager of the then Florida Marlins, but Braves fans could&#8217;ve never predicted seeing him back in Atlanta after how his managerial tenure ended.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-4\"><em><strong>For more news and rumors, check out MLB Insider Robert Murray\u2019s work on\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The Baseball Insiders podcast<em><strong>, subscribe to\u00a0<\/strong><\/em>The Moonshot<em><strong>, our weekly MLB newsletter, and join the discord to get the inside scoop between now and the MLB offseason.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<h2 id=\"inline-text-5\">Matt Tuiasosopo replacement is as shocking as it gets<\/h2>\n<p id=\"inline-text-6\">Again, having Tuiasosopo do something else was not surprising and ultimately feels like the right call. He&#8217;s been responsible for a couple of brutal sends that have played a key role in a couple of crushing Braves losses.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-7\">Tuiasosopo can&#8217;t fully be blamed for trying to push the envelope at times for this Braves team that can&#8217;t seem to get out of its own way offensively, but the last thing a team struggling to score runs can afford is making outs on the bases, especially when they&#8217;re entirely avoidable.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-8\">Making a change of this magnitude midseason doesn&#8217;t happen often, but is warranted in this case. Still, it feels weird seeing Gonzalez as the replacement.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-9\">Gonzalez has tons of experience in a variety of positions as a coach, and, as mentioned prior, was even a third base coach in Atlanta for several years before getting a managerial gig. Still, with his Braves&#8217; managerial tenure ending with three straight losing seasons, including an abysmal 9-28 mark before getting fired in 2016, it&#8217;s interesting that he&#8217;s back.<\/p>\n<p id=\"inline-text-10\">Ultimately, this feels like a prime example of Brian Snitker wanting <em>his <\/em>guys in town. Tuiasosopo was not the right fit, but Snitker and the Braves didn&#8217;t want to branch out too far to find his replacement. All this shows is that Snitker isn&#8217;t going anywhere, at least this season, no matter how badly Braves fans might want him gone.<\/p>\n<figure><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Braves demoting Matt Tuiasosopo isn&#8217;t shocking, but his replacement certainly is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":59222,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Braves replace third base coach with last person anyone expected - NEWS USA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=59221\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Braves replace third base coach with last person anyone expected - 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