The Braves have fired three coaches who were previously under contract through 2025, with David O’Brien of The Athletic among those to relay the news (X links here). The three coaches are hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, assistant hitting coach Bobby Magallanes and catching coach Sal Fasano. Atlanta will fill the two hitting coach positions but won’t replace Fasano, who was in a role specifically created for him. General manager Alex Anthopoulos had previously said he expected the entire coaching staff to return but O’Brien reports that the club hadn’t yet begun its evaluation process at that time.
Atlanta undoubtedly had a disappointing year, including on offense. The club came into the season with championship aspirations but just barely snuck into the playoffs and then were quickly eliminated. The club’s hitters posted a collective line of .243/.309/.415, leading to a league-average wRC+ of 100. That was a big drop from last year when Atlanta collectively hit .276/.344/.501 for a league-leading 125 wRC+.
How much credit or blame the hitting coach deserves for such a swing is a matter of debate. Seitzer has been the club’s hitting coach since October of 2014 and overseen plenty of good clubs since then, as Atlanta has the playoffs in each of the last seven years and won the 2021 World Series. While the 2024 club didn’t meet expectations, injuries undoubtedly played a role there, with Ronald Acuña Jr., Austin Riley, Michael Harris II, Ozzie Albies, Sean Murphy and others missing significant time. Regardless, the club has decided that a change is necessary, so they will be looking for a new hitting coach for the first time in a decade.
Seitzer played in the majors from 1986 to 1997, suiting up for Kansas City, Milwaukee, Oakland and Cleveland. The Diamondbacks hired him as their hitting coach going into the 2007 season and he later had the same job with the Royals and Blue Jays before coming to Atlanta. Magallanes was a minor leaguer in the ’90s but never made it to the show. He became a minor league coach early in this century and was able to get up to the majors with Atlanta for the 2021 season.
Fasano played in the bigs from 1996 to 2008, playing for nine different teams. He quickly began coaching in the minors, getting hired by the Blue Jays in late 2009, around the same time Anthopoulos became the GM of that club. In late 2017, Anthopoulos became GM in Atlanta and Fasano was hired by the club as a catching instructor that same month.
Thank God
Why because your GM brought in a bunch of waiver replacements and they didn’t hit? This was on your GM.
a lot of guys underperformed…the ones who didn’t get hurt. it also could just be that there aren’t going to be a lot of on-field changes so you want to try and switch up the vibes somehow.
He was the hitting coach for the best offense in baseball last year. Someone will grab him and reap the rewards. I guess the Royals make the most sense.
@metsin4 If not the Royals, Pirates could be calling as well. Hitting coach is vacant in Pittsburgh and he is exactly what Pittsburgh needs to get the best out of their players offensively. It makes perfect sense to land in Pittsburgh behind one of the best potential rotation in the league. Skenes, Jones, and Keller headline the rotation. Then you have Ortiz, Oviedo, Falter, and up comers like Bubba Chandler, Braxton Ashcraft, Thomas Harrington, Anthony Solometo, and Mike Burrows.
There is plenty of offensive potential behind Bryan Reynolds. With guys like Oneil Cruz, Nick Yorke, Jack Suwinski (maybe re-find his form), Nick Gonzales, and Joshua Polacios that have shown promise, it’s and interesting position to have. With Seitzer track record, he can potentially turn around these guys. There are other potential hitters like Billy Cook and Liover Peguero that can surprise a lot of people with the right hitting coach. Then look in the system at guys like Konnor Griffin, Termarr Johnson, Lonnie White Jr, and Tony Blanco Jr, you have to be excited about working with these young kids. The potential is there, just the Pirates need the right coaching
Yes he could definitely make a difference there.
Yes, please. I actually took lessons from him before he got hired by MLB clubs. He was a bug squish guy.
Just let Skenes and Bubba hit.
Laureano had a 128 OPS+ as a Brave. Soler had a 134. Urshela had a 95, and played great defense. Merrifield had a 93, but had a broken foot for much of September.
What hurt the Braves was their pitching issues at the end of the season. Those two rained out games and Sale’s injury screwed up their rotation.
So fire the hitting coach? No one on the Braves needed to be fired. The had one semi down year compared to expectations.
I never said they should have fired Seitzer. That was someone else. I was just pointing out that most of their WW imports did pretty well. Rosario was a bust.
Soler killed you from making better moves in the offseason. He makes 16m a year and is a defensive liability. It wasn’t a good move. He has no were to play next year.
He has trade value as a DH, even if the Braves have to eat part of his salary. BTW, he’s only making $13M in 25 and 26.
I agree it wasn’t a great trade, but it doesn’t really hold them back next year.
Sorry it’s a 16m cap hit and 13m pay. I read that wrong. Nobody else wanted to trade for him last year. I don’t think he’s going to be that easy to move. It will make a difference in the starting pitchers you go get to replace Fried and Morton.
Soler’s “cap” hit is $12.143M in 25 and 26. his signing bonus is irrelevant because the CBT got re-computed after the trade. It won’t affect the Braves’ pursuit of a pitcher. Maybe they’ll sign Severino or Quintana.
@bhambrave you can’t be serious
You do realize if the hitting wasn’t trash they wouldn’t have been playing until the last day to “screw up the rotation.”
Sorry bro but to pin this on the pitching for what “hurt the Braves” is beyond insane.
Maybe the pitching got tired and finally broke after game 162 after carrying the team all season. The offense by comparison broke on game like 20 or something.
But yeah pitching is what hurt them in the end lmao
The offense by comparison broke on game like 20 or something
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Not a Braves fan, but they finished 16th in scoring despite injuries to Acuna, Murphy, Albies, Harris, and Riley.
They’d probably be the highest scoring team in baseball without those injuries.
This team couldn’t score runs all season, it’s BECAUSE of the pitching staff they were even jn position to be in the wild card. They were something wild like 11-60 in games where the opposing team scored 4 or more runs. Also had a WRC+ in the 60’s with runners in scoring position which is dogshit. Someones head had to roll.
Thanks Braves for Taking Soler and all of his contract.
He didn’t do anything for the Giants except swing at pitches a foot outside and in the dirt.
Signed, A long time Giants fan
Nah. If they want to move him, just attach one of our AAAA pitchers or two and somedone withe money but looking to rebuild would probably bite. He shouldn’t be hard to move if the Braves are focused on doing so.
@BravesFan22024
I think BHam just meant the pitching at the end when they got bounced, and he is right. The pen got lit up in the series, and it’s probably because they had been bailing out the offense all year.
I also think some of Snitker’s move were just bad myself. Why pitch Jimenez over Chavez in next to last game. Jimenez was getting hit hard from August on, while Chavez was ultra reliable. They lost the lead, had to burn through even more innings, then had to play serious ball on the last game. Just added to the already worn out bullpen. No one seems to question Snitker, and I don’t think he should be fired, but he makes somes really bad decisions from time to time.
Yes, that’s what I meant. Thanks Steve.
@UGA_Steve: Chavez ERA cratered after June. In July: 5.11 in 12.1 innings. August: 7.84 in 10.1 innings. Much better in September w/ a 1.35 ERA but over only 6.2 innings. Seemed that Snit lost faith in him because of his poor July/August results. Might have been better in September because of limited usage. You’re right about Jiminez. He limped to the finish line in September. Last 22 games: 7.78 ERA, 1.42 WHIP, 4.6 BB9.
What a stupid, uninformed comment.
Spotrac says 16m cap hit. Cap hits don’t get adjusted for trades or everyone would pay huge signing bonuses and make their players more valuable on the trade market. The Giants gave them some money to adjust it for this year.
Wow you really contribute a lot to conversations. Couldn’t think of anything smart to say so you instantly get nasty?
No such thing in baseball as a cap hit, since there’s no salary cap.
I know you are quoting a website but, they’re using terminology that is irrelevant to the economics of baseball.
It was reported in San Francisco that the Braves took on all of his contract !!!
Wouldn’t be the first time Sportrac was wrong. His CBT # is 12.143 for 25 and 26.
Every star player on the team regressed, that’s why.
Kevin will be back. Threepeat
Should have cleaned house entirely.
Confident ATL will be back dominating NL east next year.
You shouldn’t be. Most of your players are seriously regressing. Acuna wasn’t very good the year after returning from knee surgery and your payroll leaves you no room to maneuver.
He made the all-star team the year after his first knee surgery (2022) and won the MVP the following year.
@metsin4: as a fellow Mets fan, if you don’t expect the Braves to be in the thick of it next year, you’re delusional. Olson was on fire over the last two months and Harris closed the season out great. Riley will be back. Murphy will likely be better purely for health reasons. Ozuna will probably regress, but only because he was so good this year. And they’ll have Acuña back.
Pitching-wise, they get Strider back. Schwellenbach looks solid. They’ll probably lose Fried, but will still have Sale and Lopez. Braves are still serious contenders.
I didn’t say that. The original poster said they would dominate. That isn’t happening.
As a 32 year Mets season ticket holder, I stand by the statement
@metsin4: You said “Most of your players are seriously regressing”. Like who? I was responding to that.
Murphy, Albies, Olsen, Riley. Acuna will have a bad season with two bad knees. He wasn’t that good the year he came back after the first one. Murphy is a back up catcher now. Albies was below league average offensively. Olsen while still good isn’t a superstar anymore. Same for Riley. Strider is a two pitch fastball pitcher and if his fastball declines after surgery won’t be the same. I think the Braves will be good. They aren’t dominating anyone next year.The Phillies and Mets are going to both be really good and the Nationals are coming. The division won’t be dominated by anyone for a long time. They all want to win and got resources to do it.
they have 30MM to spend
Is that enough to replace two starter and multiple relievers and maybe a better outfielder?
metsin4;
Don’t get too big headed.
Braves are one of the best organizations in MLB. They know ball, and know how to bring players along.
A year ago did you know the name Spencer Schwellenbach? Better than any Mets starting pitcher.
Did you laugh when the Braves traded for Chris Sale?
Team has 2-way gamers like Michael Harris II and Ozzie Albies when healthy.
Mets got a starter as good as Spencer Strider when he’s healthy?
Sean Murphy played hurt.
The Braves Acuna is arguably the best overall position player in the NL when healthy.
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You had an incredible season. David Stearns is extremely baseball smart. Enjoy. Don’t get boastful. The Mets have more players on their roster that are aging then than the Braves do.
You haven’t won the ’24 WS, or even gotten to it yet. Don’t
be like the classless Yankee fans. Probably something in the water. Suggest you consider buying bottled water.
Sean Murphy didn’t play hurt. He isn’t as good as you thought he was. He is a backup catcher now. Contreras was better than him when traded and it was a horrible trade. The Mets do have pitchers better than Schwellenbach. Senga, Manea, Peterson are all better. Severino is about the same. Strider is a two pitch fastball pitcher that might lose velocity when returning. He isn’t the long term pitcher you think he is. Who on the Mets is aging? I know we have 6 top 100 prospects that are coming and that doesn’t include young Acuna. You all are in Lala land if you think you’re going to dominate the east again. Not to mention the Nationals are coming and the Phillies aren’t going anywhere. You all are the ones with the big heads saying you are going to dominate the division.
The Braves, Phillies and Mets all have aging players and each of these teams will restock and be as good if not better in 2025. Worry about lifting the trophy at season’s end. Mets are good enough to do it. Phillies couldnt, Braves did.
Dumbest comment of the night.. talk about strider injury but say Senga is better .. then cast off Manea and AAAA Peterson are better than Schwellenbach who absolutely DOMINATED the Mets in every start.. Mets don’t have anywhere near the talent off Atlanta they are the lucky team this yr
According to Cot’s, they have a $186M payroll next year and a $195M CBT. They have plenty of room.
According to spottrac their payroll is at 218m. You are losing most of your rotation and bullpen. You aren’t in a good salary cap space at all.
According to Cot’s, it’s a lot less. Not losing most of either the rotation or the BP. Returning starters are Sale, Lopez, Strider and Schwellenbach. Returning BP are Iglesias, Jimenez, Bummer, Johnson, Lee.
Metsin4 you’re either a troll, 15 years old, insanely clueless or all 3.
@metsin4: Losing 2 of 5 from the starting rotation isn’t “losing most of your rotation.” Braves have plenty of young MLB ready arms to fill the one spot left after Strider returns. The bullpen? AJ Minter and Luke Jackson aren’t “most” of the pen either. Iglesias, Johnson, Jimenez, Bummer, Lee, and Holmes are 6 of the 8 still there. They don’t necessarily have to go after pitching to replace any of those not returning. Plenty of young, cheap in house options. Braves salary cap will be just fine.
You’re losing Chavez too. I guess we can play semantics and say 40% of your starters are leaving. Your internal options didn’t fare well this year so I guess if you think the Braves will dominate the division with them. I’m not sure why Braves fans always get upset when people say they aren’t going to dominate the division.
Keep your strawman out of the discussion. I didn’t say a single thing about who’s going to “dominate the division.” You’re the one who keeps harping on that. Chavez and Jackson are addition by subtraction “losses.” Minter’s an injured FA who may be re-signed. Strider replaces one of the 2 leaving and Morton’s status is undecided at this time.
Chavez is a reliever. He was an emotional favorite, but not a particularly high-leverage pitcher. Grant Holmes will fill his multi-inning spot, if he doesn’t become a starter himself. Only one person said they’d dominate. Most fans understand it’s going to be a dogfight.
I forgot about Holmes.
The whole conversation was from the poster saying you were dominating the division and you all jumping on me because I said they wouldn’t. I don’t think the Braves are going to suck. I just said they wouldn’t dominate the division.
Actually, we responded to you because you were making fallacious comments about the Braves. No one ever rebutted your contention that they wouldn’t dominate.
How many people on this site were mad because he didn’t make the all star game. I’m not sure how me saying the Braves wouldn’t dominate the division to you all acting like I’m saying the Braves are horrible. They obviously are not but either are the Mets or Phillies and maybe the Nationals.
I didn’t “jump on” you. I was attempting to discuss your comments regarding the Braves rotation, pen, and salary cap. I actually agree w/you that w/the exception of the Marlins (at this point) the Division is a 3 way dogfight w/the Nats also rapidly improving.
In the first half he had a 1.74 ERA. We wanted him to go out an All-Star, and his stats were worthy.
It will be a fun off season to see what everyone does. We all have exciting baseball to watch for years to come. Best division in baseball.
I’m glad you admitted you had the dumbest comment of the night before you spotting that garbage. Atlanta only made the playoffs because the Mets handed them the last game of the season. Try watching baseball next year before saying Manea is a cast off and Peterson is a AAAA player. Maybe you won’t be so ridiculous. I’m sure blowing a 10 game lead on the Mets was luck. How did the game go against the Mets in Schellnbachs last start? I was there and remember that game very well.
Schwellenbach exited that game w/a lead. 7 innings 1ER, 0 BB, 5 K. Not his fault the Braves pen blew that game. Sounds like you don’t remember it as well as you claim.
I didn’t say it was his fault. Just pointing out what happened even with him pitching. Just rubbing it in a bit because a lot of Braves fans getting offended because I said they wouldn’t dominate next year. His a good pitcher but acting like the Mets pitchers are garbage is ridiculous.
I don’t see any Braves fans getting offended because you said they wouldn’t dominate. Most Braves fans agree with you on that point.
The Braves won the season series. You could just as easily say that the Braves let the Mets into the post-season.
Lmao, looks like you’re trying to convince yourself. Half the comments on this post are you lol
The other half are Metsin4. We’re having a conversation. Do you have anything to add?
Cots doesn’t account for Ozuna, D’araunds and Bummers options. I don’t think it would wise to use that number again.
That’s a good point about Cots. I’ll have to keep that in mind going forward.
If you are worried about losing Chavez I guess you have a lot of free time….
“Internal options didn’t fare well” – best pitching results as a team in all of baseball and without the #1 starter. Losing Fried and Minter will hurt and I also doubt Strider is as good as Max was this year in his first year back from injury, but this team will easily be forecast for 90+ wins.
Game should recognize game. NYM have holes next season but trust great GM Stearns to successfully fill them. AA is a great GM. One would be very naive to discount him doing the same. Be confident after the big win over PHI. Mets have always played PHI tough. Confident- but not cocky.
mestsin getting roasted harder than a woman in Salem.
I really don’t like the word “fired”,; I’d give them the option to be reassign to “locker room attendant”. This would at least give them a choice.
I see the kids got home from school today.
Things were going good in the comment section earlier.
Wow I remember having Kevin Seitzer rookie cards up the wazoo but none of them looked like the picture of Seitzer MLBTR put up for this article.
lol i know right I had to look it up to see if it really was the same guy
What took them so long?
Wild card team beat the top seeded team again in nl playoffs. Womp Philly
Come on Mariners hire seitzer!
Pirates plz get Seitzer
@ hilly. No. We have Edgar
Not full time I bet…
I don’t see the hate for Seitzer. In 2023 they set a major league record for slugging percentage. He can’t help all the injuries this season, and he can’t help that the majority of the players that Atlanta has acquired has a lot of swing and miss in their game.
From my understanding his philosophy has always been about making hard contact up the middle and towards the opposite field gap. There has been a lot of praise for his approach in the past.
I’ve also saw data that showed that Atlanta has more hard hit outs than anyone else in baseball while their percentages of hard hits, flat balls, line drives, and ground outs were all comparable to 2023 when they had a record setting year. That points mainly to bad luck or significantly better defensive positioning by the other teams.
So what has happened behind the scenes?
What has happened since Snitker said that everyone would be returning?
He’s taking the fall.
To be honest, it has always been easy for someone to take the fall so it makes it look like the team is being proactive. That may very well be the case here.
I believe that if Seitzer wants to continue to coach that he will NOT be long without a job.
The angry mob must be appeased.
Well stated southi. Great question to end your thoughtful post.
Sometimes when a coach is fired it isn’t necessarily about the fired coach. Could be the Braves have a young ( cheap) hitting coach in their system that they would like to hold on to. Seitzer is 62 so maybe the Braves are looking for someone for the long term. Of course watch the Braves go out and hire Rod Carew totally destroying my theory
Enter Chipper??
Chipper isn’t interested.
Make him an offer he can’t refuse, in the form of a challenge.
Braves lifer and fan who can’t stand watching “swat and strand” offense.
He doesn’t want it.
GM is in cover his backside mode.
Seitzer was a great hitter when he played for the KC Royals. I’d love to see them bring him back.
It’s a fickle business just last year he was the best hitting coach in baseball with a record setting offense and now he’s looking in the help wanted section of mlbtraderumors.
But it’s the players and their attitudes more than anything you can lead a horse to water but that horse will still hack away with runners on 2nd and 3rd and less than 2 out with wiff because “chicks dig the long ball” and meanwhile those hens on 2nd 3rd never come “Home” to Roost and nobody is feeling “Chipper” about that.
I’m beginning to wonder if there will be anything but first year hitting coaches in MLB next year.
Its time to play Match the Fired Hitting Coach with the Team with a Hitting Coach Vacancy. They will all end up looking better to another team and get rehired!
Hitting Coaches TM
Taking the fall for the offense since time immemorial.
Something that should have been done three months ago
Employees not fired with enthusiasm soon will be.
Beatings will continue until morale improves!
Wondering if Contreras’ improvement after leaving Atlanta contributed to Fasano’s firing. That trade and the Adam Wainwright/J.D. Drew trade are the two trades I most regret them making.
Braves wanted to win at the time and had enough pitching depth, just not the offense. David justice /grissom to Cleveland for Kenny lofton and Alan embree was bad too except for embree.
At the time, Wainwright had a big growth spurt and lost his release point. The Braves downgraded their estimate of him, making him trade bait. The Braves had plenty of offense. Trading Wainwright for one year of Drew was shortsighted.
Contreras hasn’t improved that much. He was pretty good with the Braves. He was actually better offensively with the Braves. He should have never been traded.
His defense is much better. I agree about the offense, and that he shouldn’t have been traded.
That would be really odd since his OPS has gone down just a bit since his last year in Atlanta.
He was a platoon/part time player in Atlanta.
Cards need a hitting coach…
So he was a good hitting coach when they won the World Series and now he is a bad hitting coach?
Andy Haines is looking for a job
You can fire Sal, but you can never fire his mustache.
No but you can shave it
MLB causing a lot of hitting coaches there jobs this year putting that dead ball back in this year
I would so hate to be a coach right now.
Sometimes a team needs a new voice in coaching. Sure the Braves had someone lined up already or they won’t have moved on from them.
Chipper Jones in like August of 2024 really attacked the way the Braves were hitting. The Braves really failed at the basics, with things like getting a runner in from 3rd; 2 strike approaches, etc.
Shitker should go as well so we can get rid of all the bobby cox cronies.. Go get david ross and start from there.
Yep Snitker the old turtle should retire. He is overrated and over matched
If team would go back to hitting line drives and quit swinging for the fences the homers would come. Go back to old school: see ball hit ball run like hell. Batters should be fined by the team every time they take more than one shot at the fence per at bat. Braves have had to many strikeouts verses the number of homers just because of launch angle GO BACK TO BASICS: SINGLES, BUNTS, LINE DRIVES BEAT US THIS YEAR!!!!!!
“Every time I see you hit one in the air, you owe me twenty pushups.”
-Lou Brown
I thought the Reds should have used that with Billy Hamilton.
That’s who I think of every time I watch that scene.
Fire Snitker. If there was a WAR for managers his would be negative
great at developing players but his in-game management is atrocious
I prefer starting an inning with a fresh reliever, not bringing in the reliever from the previous inning and hoping that he still pitches well.
yea i dont get it. hes so relaxed in regular season but when it comes to post-season he destroys the BP
He basically just sits there you may as well get a statue. Anytime an ump makes a bad call he does nothing and he even has challenges to challenge the bad call and he will still just sit there.
Maybe it’s like a Weekend at Bernie’s situation and Snitker died years ago and the team is just carrying the corpse around just not in a hilarious way like Weekend at Bernie’s.
Snitker is overrated just like Bobby Cox was. But the Braves will stupidly stay with him until he retires.
I would have been a very interested fly if I had been on the wall when this decision was made
This is dumb, put you can’t fire the players.
fans come to see the players not the coaches
Chipper jones come on down
I like Seitzer, he was great for a few years, but this year it felt like our offense had no plan of attack and all the other teams had a book on how to pitch to our hitters and we never adjusted. Was it 100% his fault? I don’t have an answer for it, but I think he could have done better this year and he didn’t
The Braves hitting philosophy from the minors to the majors is flawed. None of the teams hit worth a crap this season. I am friends with a couple of the Braves minor leaguers and they both told me it is an organization wide problem. They need to rethink their approach and not stress home runs over high on base percentage and intelligent base running.
Not a fan of this whatsoever. Seitzer has led the offense through some great years and just because of one down year he gets fired. Going to be hard to replace him, maybe Chipper could but is he really going to join the coaching staff? And why fire Fasano? Year marred with injuries and players rarely getting a chance to settle in to a certain position. This was just one of those years you write off, while also calling it a success considering the circumstances.
Very telling comment by Seitzer in his interview w/DOB at the Athletic: “It was the hardest season of my life, because guys were trying so hard and couldn’t get going, and I couldn’t get them to (not press),” Seitzer said. “if they can find somebody to get these guys to not try so hard, that needs to be the guy that they hire. You can talk about mechanics until the cows come home, but this (struggles this season) was all between the ears.” Seitzer also noted that he missed time w/the organization due to health problems his wife dealt with. Class guy. Doesn’t blame the Braves, mentions he’s extremely grateful to have been given the opportunity to be w/the organization for the last 10 years.
Anyone who has played serious competitive baseball will tell you that no matter how good your mechanics have been, when you are pressing they stink.
The braves obviously have a lot of very competitive guys. The injuries started early and nobody got in sync at the same time. Guys tried their hardest to carry the team, and they pressed.
It was only towards the end that they started improving together
I believe Kranitz also missed a good bit of time for his wife, as well. It’s telling that he wasn’t getting through to them. 10 years is longer than most hitting coaches — longer than even Snit has been ATL manager — I don’t see why this is such a shock. It’s great that he helped them attain the numbers of 2023, but the talent is still there, they just need a healthier year and hopefully someone that can get through to them, and possibly alter their hitting philosophy. I really wish they can find/develop more placesetters, which seemed to also be the death of the mighty PHI offense in the playoffs. When big bats go cold and only an occasional solo HR or relying on 3B Vientos to bobble for a run, time to rub Jobu.
White Sox should jump on this. They haven’t had a good hitting coach in years.
As a Braves fan, everything has been said already. However, I remember Seitzer missing extended time in the summer to deal with family matters. This past year has been a whirlwind watching the Braves, and I honestly don’t remember how long he was out. But being away from the team and dealing with personal stuff had to have weighed on the poor guy.
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It was colon cancer in his wife. He told DOB. It’s on the paysite.
Rays need to get rid of Mottola and take a flyer on Seitzer. Fasano is a great guy and would do a good job getting some defensive value from a big bat/no glove catcher that they desperately need to sign. Maybe they can do a package deal and trade Mottola/Snyder for Seitzer/Fasano/Max Fried.
Why is it always the hitting coaches fault. That is the 6th or 7th one fired this offseason already and I doubt half those team’s current hitters are much better next season.
Hitting coaches are more expendable.
Fasano was a nice guy. He signed m y Royals hat when I was at a White Sox/Royals game as a little kid. He is well liked and will land on his feet.
Should have been the entire coaching staff especially Shitner
Cards should grab him
Suppose Acuna would have had 5.0 WAR this year then Atlanta would have won 94 and that’s post-season guaranteed. There the problem pinpointed, why would you go shuffling something when it’s no even an issue?
Look at what they ranked in sac flies, sac hits and w/ RISP. Seitzer was the longest-tenured MLB hitting coach — why isn’t reasonable to want a new voice? Even with Acuna, that 2024 wouldn’t have lasted long in the playoffs with an inconsistent and untimely offense that went stagnant for long periods, couldn’t bring in runners or manufacture runs. LAD is hitting .288 w/ RISP during the playoffs. During the season, ATL hit .247 (20th) w/ RISP.