{"id":83127,"date":"2025-08-25T11:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83127"},"modified":"2025-08-25T11:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T11:52:18","slug":"team-usa-coach-named-as-potential-brian-snitker-replacement-for-braves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=83127","title":{"rendered":"Team USA Coach Named as Potential Brian Snitker Replacement for Braves"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-featured-container-id\">\n<div id=\"post-featured\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2161653383-e1751397862573.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 820px) 95vw, 780px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2161653383-e1751397862573.jpg?quality=65&amp;strip=all&amp;w=780 780w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2161653383-e1751397862573.jpg?quality=15&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1100 1100w, https:\/\/heavy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/GettyImages-2161653383-e1751397862573.jpg?quality=35&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1350 1350w\" alt=\"Team USA Coach Named as Potential Brian Snitker Replacement for Braves\" width=\"780\" height=\"439\" \/><\/figure>\n<div>\n<p>Getty<\/p>\n<p>Brian Snitker looks on during a game against the Diamondbacks.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Atlanta Braves have multiple problems, which could lead to some massive changes during the offseason. While the Braves have arguably been one of the worst teams in baseball at 58-71, Brian Snitker could\u2019ve already been entering his final season. Snitker is a legend in Atlanta and one of the better managers in franchise history.<\/p>\n<p>However, already 69 years old, it might be a mutual agreement to part ways. The Braves haven\u2019t played well, Snitker is only getting older, and there must be some sort of change.<\/p>\n<p>When searching for who that change could be, Chase Irle of SportsTalkATL named Mark DeRosa, the Team USA manager, his potential replacement. DeRosa doesn\u2019t have any experience coaching in Major League Baseball, and he has a good job at MLB Network, but he coaches for the USA Team and could be interested in making it his full-time job.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMark DeRosa grew up in the Braves farm system and spent his first seven seasons with the club. He\u2019s yet to try his hand at managing in Major League Baseball since retiring as a player in 2013, but he has been the manager for Team USA in the World Baseball Classic. Given he\u2019s currently got a pretty good gig over at MLB Network, it won\u2019t be easy to convince him to get off the couch. However, perhaps he might be more willing to do so for a familiar organization like the Braves,\u201d Irle wrote .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Could Brian Snitker Leave the Braves?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>In his report, Nightingale noted that if Snitker decides to hang them up, Walt Weiss and Skip Schumaker could be potential options for the Braves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer Marlins manager Skip Schumaker and bench coach Walt Weiss are expected to be strong candidates to replace Brian Snitker as Atlanta\u2019s manager when he retires after the season.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSchumaker could also wind up in Texas if Bruce Bochy retires,\u201d he reported .<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h2><strong>Is Mark DeRosa an Ideal Candidate for Atlanta?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>There are also some other things to consider for the Atlanta Braves. DeRosa is a bit outspoken and is obviously a former big leaguer.<\/p>\n<p>He understands what it takes to play every day. Still, according to The Athletic\u2019s Matt Gelb, some Philadelphia Phillies players didn\u2019t like what DeRosa recently said when the Phillies met with commissioner Rob Manfred about potentially implementing a salary cap in the next CBA.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe commissioner\u2019s a powerful guy, don\u2019t expletive around with him,\u201d was what DeRosa was saying, per Gelb .<\/p>\n<p>When speaking about the situation, DeRosa later admitted that he thought he had a better relationship with the players, given he\u2019d coached some of them during the USA Team days. Still, clearly, guys weren\u2019t too happy about that.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShame on me for thinking I had a better relationship with some of the players in there than I guess I do,\u201d said DeRosa. \u201cThe comment I made was completely in jest, completely kidding, amongst a group of about 10-12 players. Guys were laughing, guys were joking. I had managed some of them with Team USA, I had played with Bryce in 2012. Literally making a joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jon Conahan covers the NBA and NFL for Heavy.com. Since 2019, his sports coverage has appeared at Sports Illustrated, oddschecker, ClutchPoints and Sportskeeda. More about Jon Conahan<\/p>\n<h2>More Heavy on Braves<\/h2>\n<p>Loading more stories<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Team USA coach has been identified as a potential candidate to succeed Brian Snitker as Atlanta Braves manager.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":83128,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83127","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>Team USA Coach Named as Potential Brian Snitker Replacement for Braves - 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=83127\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Team USA Coach Named as Potential Brian Snitker Replacement for Braves - 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