The Atlanta Braves are playing their best brand of baseball in a long while. However, there is no chance they will make the MLB playoffs this season. With a struggling campaign and manager Brian Snitker in the final year of his contract, the Braves are likely to move on.
“Because of that consistent recent success, Snit would normally be afforded a ‘mulligan’ year—even though going from the second-best preseason World Series odds to possibly the third-best odds of winning the draft lottery is a pretty serious mulligan,” Bleacher Report’s Kerry Miller wrote. “At 69, though, he's already the oldest manager in the National League by a several-year margin and was likely to retire at the end of this season, which is the last one in his current contract.