[Toscano] Breaking: The Braves are making changes to their coaching staff. Hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, assistant hitting coach Bobby Magallanes and catching coach Sal Fasano will not return in 2025. The Braves will hire two hitting coaches, but will not fill Fasano’s role.
October 10, 2024
[Toscano] Breaking: The Braves are making changes to their coaching staff. Hitting coach Kevin Seitzer, assistant hitting coach Bobby Magallanes and catching coach Sal Fasano will not return in 2025. The Braves will hire two hitting coaches, but will not fill Fasano’s role.
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Wow, I can’t believe they pulled that trigger. Before last year he was highly regarded.
I’m surprised they got rid of Fasano. I have only seen the catchers and pitchers praise him. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
really really surprised tbh. 2024 seemed more like an outlier than the norm when looking at all of our offenses under seitzer. really wonder who is going to fill that role (and there’s one person who everyone would absolutely love to fill it)
> but will not fill Fasano’s role.
Oh Travis *is* that role.
I’m not totally sure if I’m surprised or not. Thought maybe the org would think last year was an outlier, but here’s to greener pastures hopefully. Let the Chipper and Travis speculation begin!
Definitely think this is the right move.
lol Braves reddit gets dunked on again.
Expected, but I still believe it’s an overreaction. Seitzer was the coach in 2021 and 2023, plus this year is a flat-out anomaly given the injuries and the league-worst luck on batted balls. Seitzer couldn’t control the pitching shitting the bed against the Phillies last year and Padres this year.
I love AA.
“We are retaining the coaching staff.”
::immediately fires parts of coaching staff::
I’m wondering why they canned Fasano. I figured d’Arnaud would step into that role at some point, but I understand Travis will still be playing next year.
Anyone else think that letting Seitzer go is a huge mistake and an overreaction to one bad offensive season?
Maybe it’s not just about results. Maybe they want a change in approach/philosophy to hitting.
I am truly shocked. I cannot help but feel this is an overreaction. Especially cannot believe that Sal is out. Never heard a negative about him…
This doesn’t surprise me. It felt like everything offensively was stale and one-dimensional with our adjustments taking way too long to materialize this year. It was probably time to insert some fresh perspectives into the hitting department.
Well I’m sure the team knows what’s best so I’m down with whatever.
Just maybe someone else did what one of our fellow redditors did, and analyzed the Braves postseason hitting under Seitzer. Protip: Even with 21, it’s horrible
Oh my god we’re so fucking back
Christmas in October
The writing was on the wall. It took way too long for these hitters to make adjustments to how they were being pitched. Thankful for their service to the organization and thankful they are all gone next year.
The Atlanta Braves announced today that they have traded Eli White to the Angels for Ron Washington and a case of icey hot for the windmill.
I love how everyone on here believes that it’s gospel what the team says in press conferences. This is win now franchise, and outliers or the like are not acceptable. The team couldn’t adjust the entire season and it’s due to an ineffective coaching style. You can’t praise the good of 2023 without recognizing the poor performance of 2024.
Just another example of why you can’t take what AA says at those exit interviews as gospel 😂. I like the move. Let’s get some fresh minds in there
Holy shit
Glad Seitzer is gone. Approach at the plate has been awful and when we can’t hit homers, it’s a shit sandwich. Good move by the organization.
I dont care how many injuries we had, their hitting approach was so god awful this year that I wanted to scream.
Their philosophy seemed to be:
-Watch four seamer get piped
-Swing at sweepers 10 feet off the plate
-Dont swing on close third strikes
-Swing out of your shoes with a guy on 2nd and no outs
Yea Im ready for something new lol
I agree that our approach in 2024 was ass and that the last few postseasons have been terrible, but Seitzer won MLBs coach of the year in 2023 where offensive records were broken so this is a massive shock. Especially considering AA made it seem like all were on board for 2025. I REALLY dont understand the Fasano firing.
It makes me wonder what the plan forward is and what may have been the rationale for this change of heart. I disagree with anyone who says Seitzer is *useless*, but I wonder how resistant he is to feedback/adopting different approaches when things aren’t working. This year it felt like they stuck to the same approach when circumstances were different and Seitzer likely plays a role in that.
We have had players come to this club and immediately start hitting better, even in 2024, which makes this even more confusing. I wonder if this is an attempt to correct to the league again since they may have started pitching to the Braves differently (in other words, maybe they think Seitzer’s game is figured out?) Guess we will have to see moving forward but for good or bad this was shocking.
Did someone say “Catching Coach Travis d’Arnaud”?
… cause that’s what it sounded like to me.
Okay I’ll do it. I can tell everyone my secret to baseball hitting.
1. You have to swing the bat in order to get a hit 2. If you hit the ball with your bat, it increases your chances of getting a hit 3. Keep your eye on the ball
I’ll take $1.5m thanks
So happy on this. Now just crossing my fingers that the new coaches work out lol.
The handwriting was on the wall for the hitting coaches.
William Contreras is partly why Sal is gone.
This needed to be done but I’m surprised they actually did it.
The Braves have a history of being loyal to a fault so I expected them to chalk this year up to injuries & not make many changes. Happy to be proven wrong. Glad AA is less complacent than our GMs of the past.
well i guess the message to hitting coach candidates is “the leash here is EXTREMELY short”
Cool. This is what I wanted. Not Sal Fasano but Seitzer. Hope it doesn’t backfire
Tells me AA isn’t the idiot fans want to pretend he knows what he’s seeing and that it can be better and that guys like Murphy need legit outside interference to help get right that they don’t seem to be getting.
It was a bad look that Soker and Whit came in and immediately had some of the best AB’s in the lineup nightly.
Great news. The approach was terrible all season long. The one & only game that I saw all year where the offense seemed to be locked in with the ab’s they were taking was game 157 vs Severino & the Mets. They actually worked up the pitch count & kept chasing to a minimum that game. They really looked locked in. I foolishly thought that would be the turning point for the offense, then the hurricane hit…2 days off…& went back to hit or miss again.
Fuckin finallyyyyyyyy…enough with the home run or nothing approach that doesn’t do shit in the playoffs
I just wanna say that the front office is seeing things we aren’t. On the outside you’d think firing your hitting coach from a historic offense in 2023 would be a mistake but they’re probably seeing something we’re not. I trust them to make the right moves.
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Wow, I can’t believe they pulled that trigger. Before last year he was highly regarded.
I’m surprised they got rid of Fasano. I have only seen the catchers and pitchers praise him. Will be interesting to see how this shakes out.
really really surprised tbh. 2024 seemed more like an outlier than the norm when looking at all of our offenses under seitzer. really wonder who is going to fill that role (and there’s one person who everyone would absolutely love to fill it)
> but will not fill Fasano’s role.
Oh Travis *is* that role.
I’m not totally sure if I’m surprised or not. Thought maybe the org would think last year was an outlier, but here’s to greener pastures hopefully. Let the Chipper and Travis speculation begin!
Definitely think this is the right move.
lol Braves reddit gets dunked on again.
Expected, but I still believe it’s an overreaction. Seitzer was the coach in 2021 and 2023, plus this year is a flat-out anomaly given the injuries and the league-worst luck on batted balls. Seitzer couldn’t control the pitching shitting the bed against the Phillies last year and Padres this year.
I love AA.
“We are retaining the coaching staff.”
::immediately fires parts of coaching staff::
I’m wondering why they canned Fasano. I figured d’Arnaud would step into that role at some point, but I understand Travis will still be playing next year.
Anyone else think that letting Seitzer go is a huge mistake and an overreaction to one bad offensive season?
Maybe it’s not just about results. Maybe they want a change in approach/philosophy to hitting.
I am truly shocked. I cannot help but feel this is an overreaction. Especially cannot believe that Sal is out. Never heard a negative about him…
This doesn’t surprise me. It felt like everything offensively was stale and one-dimensional with our adjustments taking way too long to materialize this year. It was probably time to insert some fresh perspectives into the hitting department.
Well I’m sure the team knows what’s best so I’m down with whatever.
Just maybe someone else did what one of our fellow redditors did, and analyzed the Braves postseason hitting under Seitzer. Protip: Even with 21, it’s horrible
Oh my god we’re so fucking back
Christmas in October
The writing was on the wall. It took way too long for these hitters to make adjustments to how they were being pitched. Thankful for their service to the organization and thankful they are all gone next year.
The Atlanta Braves announced today that they have traded Eli White to the Angels for Ron Washington and a case of icey hot for the windmill.
I love how everyone on here believes that it’s gospel what the team says in press conferences. This is win now franchise, and outliers or the like are not acceptable. The team couldn’t adjust the entire season and it’s due to an ineffective coaching style. You can’t praise the good of 2023 without recognizing the poor performance of 2024.
Just another example of why you can’t take what AA says at those exit interviews as gospel 😂. I like the move. Let’s get some fresh minds in there
Holy shit
Glad Seitzer is gone. Approach at the plate has been awful and when we can’t hit homers, it’s a shit sandwich. Good move by the organization.
I dont care how many injuries we had, their hitting approach was so god awful this year that I wanted to scream.
Their philosophy seemed to be:
-Watch four seamer get piped
-Swing at sweepers 10 feet off the plate
-Dont swing on close third strikes
-Swing out of your shoes with a guy on 2nd and no outs
Yea Im ready for something new lol
I agree that our approach in 2024 was ass and that the last few postseasons have been terrible, but Seitzer won MLBs coach of the year in 2023 where offensive records were broken so this is a massive shock. Especially considering AA made it seem like all were on board for 2025. I REALLY dont understand the Fasano firing.
It makes me wonder what the plan forward is and what may have been the rationale for this change of heart. I disagree with anyone who says Seitzer is *useless*, but I wonder how resistant he is to feedback/adopting different approaches when things aren’t working. This year it felt like they stuck to the same approach when circumstances were different and Seitzer likely plays a role in that.
We have had players come to this club and immediately start hitting better, even in 2024, which makes this even more confusing. I wonder if this is an attempt to correct to the league again since they may have started pitching to the Braves differently (in other words, maybe they think Seitzer’s game is figured out?) Guess we will have to see moving forward but for good or bad this was shocking.
Did someone say “Catching Coach Travis d’Arnaud”?
… cause that’s what it sounded like to me.
Okay I’ll do it. I can tell everyone my secret to baseball hitting.
1. You have to swing the bat in order to get a hit
2. If you hit the ball with your bat, it increases your chances of getting a hit
3. Keep your eye on the ball
I’ll take $1.5m thanks
So happy on this. Now just crossing my fingers that the new coaches work out lol.
The handwriting was on the wall for the hitting coaches.
William Contreras is partly why Sal is gone.
This needed to be done but I’m surprised they actually did it.
The Braves have a history of being loyal to a fault so I expected them to chalk this year up to injuries & not make many changes. Happy to be proven wrong. Glad AA is less complacent than our GMs of the past.
well i guess the message to hitting coach candidates is “the leash here is EXTREMELY short”
Cool. This is what I wanted. Not Sal Fasano but Seitzer. Hope it doesn’t backfire
Tells me AA isn’t the idiot fans want to pretend he knows what he’s seeing and that it can be better and that guys like Murphy need legit outside interference to help get right that they don’t seem to be getting.
It was a bad look that Soker and Whit came in and immediately had some of the best AB’s in the lineup nightly.
Great news. The approach was terrible all season long. The one & only game that I saw all year where the offense seemed to be locked in with the ab’s they were taking was game 157 vs Severino & the Mets. They actually worked up the pitch count & kept chasing to a minimum that game. They really looked locked in. I foolishly thought that would be the turning point for the offense, then the hurricane hit…2 days off…& went back to hit or miss again.
Fuckin finallyyyyyyyy…enough with the home run or nothing approach that doesn’t do shit in the playoffs
I just wanna say that the front office is seeing things we aren’t. On the outside you’d think firing your hitting coach from a historic offense in 2023 would be a mistake but they’re probably seeing something we’re not. I trust them to make the right moves.
Best news I’ve seen all day (except for Fasano)