{"id":576828,"date":"2026-02-17T04:16:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576828\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T04:16:42","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T04:16:42","slug":"brian-snitker-honored-by-georgia-governor-for-braves-legacy-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/576828\/","title":{"rendered":"Brian Snitker honored by Georgia governor for Braves legacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t Former Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker received an official commendation Monday from Brian Kemp, recognizing his impact on the state and Braves Country.Snitker returned to Atlanta for the honor while continuing his new role as an adviser with the organization during spring training.The 70-year-old spent 49 seasons in the Braves organization, including more than nine as manager. During his tenure, Atlanta made seven consecutive postseason appearances, won six straight National League East titles and captured a World Series championship.Snitker is set to be inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame during the 2026 regular season and will remain with the organization in an advisory role. The Braves open the season March 27 against Kansas City at Truist Park.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tATLANTA \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p> Former Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker received an official commendation Monday from Brian Kemp, recognizing his impact on the state and Braves Country.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThis content is imported from Twitter.<br \/>\n\tYou may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site.\n<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to Brian Snitker, who today received an official Commendation from Governor Brian Kemp for his considerable impact on the State of Georgia and Braves Country! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/eIZ1CDYN4k\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/eIZ1CDYN4k<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Atlanta Braves (@Braves) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Braves\/status\/2023495831417233796?ref_src=twsrc^tfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">February 16, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Snitker returned to Atlanta for the honor while continuing his new role as an adviser with the organization during spring training.<\/p>\n<p>The 70-year-old spent 49 seasons in the Braves organization, including more than nine as manager. During his tenure, Atlanta made seven consecutive postseason appearances, won six straight National League East titles and captured a World Series championship.<\/p>\n<p>Snitker is set to be inducted into the Braves Hall of Fame during the 2026 regular season and will remain with the organization in an advisory role. The Braves open the season March 27 against Kansas City at Truist Park.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Former Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker received an official commendation Monday from Brian Kemp, recognizing his impact on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2394],"tags":[40216,75551,191,46,4166,5,1708,75541,192,75542,47438,63249,74238,75549,75543,25999,64431,75544,75545,1934,1236,75546,15167,55,19,4,75552,7439,75547,75550,3809,1479,75548,151,1682,18767,2071,1039],"class_list":{"0":"post-576828","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-atlanta-braves","8":"tag-2026-season","9":"tag-adviser","10":"tag-atlanta","11":"tag-atlanta-braves","12":"tag-atlantabraves","13":"tag-baseball","14":"tag-baseball-hall-of-fame","15":"tag-baseball-recognition","16":"tag-braves","17":"tag-braves-advisor","18":"tag-braves-country","19":"tag-braves-hall-of-fame","20":"tag-braves-history","21":"tag-braves-legacy","22":"tag-braves-legend","23":"tag-braves-manager","24":"tag-braves-opening-day","25":"tag-braves-organization","26":"tag-brian-kemp","27":"tag-brian-snitker","28":"tag-fame","29":"tag-georgia-governor","30":"tag-honor","31":"tag-kansas-city-royals","32":"tag-major-league-baseball","33":"tag-mlb","34":"tag-new-role","35":"tag-nl-east","36":"tag-north-port-florida","37":"tag-official-commendation-monday","38":"tag-organization","39":"tag-season","40":"tag-sports-honor","41":"tag-spring-training","42":"tag-state","43":"tag-tenure","44":"tag-truist-park","45":"tag-world-series"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":"Validation failed: Text character limit of 500 exceeded"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}