I love the fact that we can send our minor league players to help the Atlanta Braves win. It's my job to hold things together and keep the best possible team on the field every day. It's something that happens. It's part of the game. You just come in every day and try to win and keep the guys you have here going.
"Brian Gerald Snitker" is the current manager of the Gwinnett Braves. From 2006 to 2013, Snitker served as Atlanta Braves third base coach. He was named to that position on October 3, 2006, replacing Fredi González, who left to join the Florida Marlins as manager. Snitker had previously been manager of the Durham Bulls, Myrtle Beach Pelicans, Greenville Braves, Mississippi Braves and Richmond Braves, all in the Braves farm system. He was also the Braves' bullpen coach in 1985 and 1988-1990. He has been in the Braves organization in many different roles since joining the club as a player in 1977. He played mostly catcher and some first base in the minor leagues.
A few of his honors during his fifteen-year run as a minor league manager are winning two championships with the Myrtle Beach Pelicans in 1999 and 2000, and in those same years he won the Carolina League Manager of the Year. He is a graduate of the University of New Orleans and is married with two children. He makes his home in Lilburn, Georgia.
Snitker was a member of the 1971 Macon, Illinois high school baseball team. The team's surprising run to the state championship tournament was documented in Chris Ballard's 2012 book "One Shot at Forever: A Small Town, an Unlikely Coach, and a Magical Baseball Season."
More Brian Snitker on Wikipedia.The guy has gone out every time and given us a chance to win the game. It's nice to see him get a reward for it tonight. It was nice for him to get that last out, so he could get in the dugout and we could get the decision for him.
We'll probably see him before the year is up. From what I've heard of him, he's comparable to Huston Street who's now with Oakland.
I told him, 'The thing you have to understand . . . is put yourself in a position when it happens again to be the one they want to move.
That makes it even more remarkable. We'll take those any time we can get them, because they've been hard to come by.
For as long as he is (6-foot-8, 210 pounds), he's got a pretty coordinated swing. He had pretty good arm action, too. You can tell he's a very coordinated athlete.
I thought he had the whole package going.
You don't know what will happen in spring training, but it was an encouraging board to look at.
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