You have to enjoy every day because you're never guaranteed tomorrow.”Ī year after murder, Darryl Hamilton's brother reflects: 'I miss him now even more'
Life's too short for me to be beating players over the head every day. And I think I changed as a baseball manager. That summer put a lot of things in perspective for me. Two weeks after that, my wife was diagnosed with breast cancer. “My dad had a massive heart attack and died.
“I remember a year when I went through a lot of personal issues,” Snitker said, referring to the summer of 1993. And there is joy in grasping his wife's hand on a chartered flight, more than two decades after losing loved ones, and living with the fear of losing Ronnie, too.
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There is a joy in the present evident in what Snitker says and does, something required of a manager who needs to look past the team's record and focus on the little victories of a pitcher improving the command of his third-best pitch, or a hitter learning how to hit the grounder to the right side of the infield to advance a runner from second to third. I wanted to get back to the major leagues as a coach, but I just never thought I'd be a manager.” “My time had come and gone, it wasn't going to identify me by any stretch. “But after going back to Triple-A, I just kind of put it out of my mind,” Snitker recalled. He'd decided he was ready about 10 years ago, right around turning 50, but then the call didn't come, and he returned to Class AAA after serving as Atlanta's third-base coach from 2006-2013. Then there's the surprise nature of the job for Snitker. But when you've been through all the tribulations of the minor leagues-you're short players, you have guys up and down, once you get up here, it just makes it easier, the nature of what you're dealing with.” And you see guys put into this position with very little managerial experience. I used to have an old general manager who told me, 'Don't worry about wins and losses, worry about making sure three or four of your guys moved to the next level and performed. “Your job was to get the guys on that team better.
“In the case of myself, really, and Brian, we spent so long in the minor leagues, and that was all you did,” Mets manager Terry Collins said. The Braves are 15-19 under Snitker after their season-high six-game winning streak was snapped Wednesday in a 3-0 loss at Miami. Gonzalez was fired after getting off to a 9-28 start. And so while it may be counterintuitive to have a 60-year-old in charge of that effort, this is a 60-year-old who's done little over the past 30 years that hasn't involved working at making young baseball players better. No one is pretending the Braves are in anything but a rebuilding phase. In Snitker, the Braves also have a man whose entire life has been an apprenticeship for the months and years to come in Atlanta. So when guys get here, the coaches are guys who have been here-guys like Terry Pendleton, Eddie Perez-guys who were here when we were putting all those flags up.”Ĭubs' Willson Contreras leads crop of MLB's top summer call-ups How you're expected to play on the field. “And that encompasses doing things the right way. “We talk about a Braves Way,” Snitker said.
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