Walt Weiss is getting a second chance to skipper a club, hired by the Atlanta Braves on Monday.

Weiss is the fourth man to get the job since Hall of Famer Bobby Cox retired and fills in for Brian Snitker after his highly successful 11 years leading the Braves. Weiss has spent the previous eight seasons as the club’s major league bench coach, winning a World Series in that role in 2021, his second ring, along with his Oakland Athletics 1989 ring as a shortstop.

Weiss led the Colorado Rockies through four lean years from 2013-16, where he went 283-365 in the role. Folks across Denver made fun of him in that role, mainly because Dick Monfort hired him straight from Regis Jesuit High School. Still, as somebody who covered him day to day, he was instrumental in helping the Rockies’ young players build toward their eventual back-to-back playoff runs in 2017 and 2018.

Weiss, now 61, has been just as big a part of the Braves as he has been of the Rockies, spending 11 seasons as both a player and coach. The Braves have gone 680-513 in his time as the vice-skipper, second-best in the National League and fourth-best in Major League Baseball. As a player for the Braves from 1998-2000, the former switch-hitting shortstop slashed .2571.354.329 (210-for-818) and was named a starter for the National League at the Major League Baseball All-Star Game in 1998.

Funny enough, since it’s just like 30 years later, his playing time with the Braves came after four years of up-and-down play with the Rockies, though he was on the club’s first playoff team in 1995.

Weiss was drafted out of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill by the Athletics in the first round (No. 11) of the 1985 MLB First-Year Player Draft. Over his 14-year MLB career, the 1988 American League Rookie of the Year posted a 16.5 bWAR across 1,495 games with the Athletics (1987-92), Florida Marlins (1993), Rockies (1994-97) and Braves.

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The Braves opened with the second-best odds to win the 2026 World Series among NL squads at 14 to 1. They’re coming off their first non-playoff year in eight seasons and that was due to injury as they set an MLB record for players used this past summer. Weiss’ second crack at MLB managing will come with high expectations that he can get the Braves back among the NL’s elite teams.

Meanwhile, the Rockies are still looking for a general manager and a manager.