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Before thankfully winning against the Brewers on Monday night, the Atlanta Braves were in free fall.<\/p>\n
They had just lost seven games in a row including some true gut punches and almost nothing seemed to be going right.<\/p>\n
With Atlanta struggling so much, there were no shortage of fans that were calling for the team to get rid of manager Brian Snitker as soon as possible.<\/p>\n
While a pretty normal sports fan reaction, the idea that the Braves would fire Snitker in the middle of the season is laughable.<\/p>\n
Aside from the fact that he has been with the organization for nearly five decades, Snitker also led the Braves to division titles from 2018-2023 including a World Series win in 2021.<\/p>\n
As MLB insider Ken Rosenthal recently said, the team just isn’t going to do that to Snitker as much as upset as fans are right now.<\/p>\n
Again, nothing earth-shattering there. However, what does seem possible is that if the Braves finish the 2025 season out of the playoffs, both the Braves and Snitker could decide that a mutual parting of ways is the best thing for everyone.<\/p>\n
If the Braves don’t turn things around, Brian Snitker retiring feels pretty likely<\/strong><\/p>\n To be clear, we aren’t blaming Snitker for the Braves’ struggles in 2025.<\/p>\n While there have certainly been some times this season where Snitker didn’t do his best work as an in-game strategist, the bulk of the blame belongs on the players who are far too talented (and well paid) to be playing like this.<\/p>\n If you are looking for a column blasting Snitker and calling for his head, you can look elsewhere for that.<\/p>\n However, Snit has already hinted that retirement has been on his mind and whether or not the 2025 season would be his last season would depend on how he is feeling.<\/p>\n Some of that is certainly a physical\/health consideration at 69 years old, but there is also just the matter of how long he wants to put up with all of this at his age.<\/p>\n Perhaps Snitker retiring after the season is the best outcome for everyone.<\/p>\n Snitker gets to leave the game and team he loves on his own terms and the Braves get to install a new voice at the head of the coaching staff that might be able to get more out of these guys and perhaps is more receptive to modern analytics.<\/p>\n Firing Snitker in the middle of the season would both be unnecessarily disrespectful to a franchise icon and probably just make things worse in the short-term.<\/p>\n However, that doesn’t mean that Atlanta’s struggles in 2025 may not be the beginning of the end.<\/p>\n That said, please don’t hire Fredi Gonzalez for the job, we beg of you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before thankfully winning against the Brewers on Monday night, the Atlanta Braves were in free fall. They had just lost seven games in a row including some… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":60870,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-mlb"],"yoast_head":"\n