The Atlanta Braves hiring Walt Weiss as their new manager was a nice start, but the subsequent purging of the coaching staff made it clear that they wer looking to take things in a different direction after Brian Snitker's retirement. Stealing two highly regarded coaches from the Mets was a good start towards that end, but Atlanta did not stop there.
On Friday, the Braves continued their complete remaking of their coaching staff with the announcement that Atlanta was bringing in Tony Mansolino and JP Martinez to be their third base coach and bullpen coach respectively.