Atlanta extends manager Snitker through 2025

Shortly after Brian Snitker led the Braves to the 2021 World Series title, the staff rewarded its supervisor with a three-year contract extension. Now, Snitker is about to handle the Braves for even longer.

Atlanta and Snitker have agreed to a different extension that runs by 2025, the staff introduced Friday. The phrases of the deal weren’t disclosed.

The new deal provides a further yr to Snitker’s contact, which had been set to run out after the 2024 season. The 67-year-old skipper has held this function since changing Fredi González six weeks into the ’16 season.

Since then, Atlanta has achieved little however win with Snitker on the helm. He’s guided the Braves to 5 straight division titles and the 2021 championship, serving to the staff by the ultimate a part of its rebuild and into perennial competition. He is the primary supervisor in franchise historical past to succeed in the postseason 5 instances in his first six seasons, owns a 542-451 report (.546 profitable share) over these seasons and is the sport’s sixth-longest tenured skipper.

Snitker additionally gained the 2018 NL Manager of the Year Award and has completed high 4 within the voting annually since ’19. He beforehand spent greater than three a long time within the group as a coach or supervisor on the Major and Minor League ranges.

Snitker will flip 70 in October 2025, proper across the time this new deal is about to run out.