The Atlanta Braves have hired Walt Weiss as their manager to succeed Brian Snitker. Weiss has been the Braves’ bench coach since 2018 and was on Snitker’s staff when they won the World Series in 2021.

The Atlanta Braves search for a new manager has had a lot of twists and turns. For a while, internal options like Walt Weiss felt like the logical choice, but then most of the reporting turned to external options while completely discounting the internal ones.