Well, this isn’t what I had in mind. Walt Weiss has been the bench coach in Atlanta for most of the past decade. The 1988 Rookie of the Year, he’s about as much of a known quantity as the Braves could have selected — with the exceptions, that is, of guys like Terry Pendleton and Eddie Perez, whom they have passed over each time they’ve had an open managerial slot.
We all know Weiss, so I’ll keep this briefer than I would have if the Braves had gone for an outsider. My main source for the below, other than his bb-ref page, is his SABR bio, as well as a New York Daily News feature profile that the bio relies on.