00:00Braves make one huge change after disastrous season.
00:04The Atlanta Braves are entering a new era after missing the MLB postseason for the first time since 2017.
00:11The organization announced sweeping offseason changes, beginning with the departure of longtime pitching development director Paul Davis.
00:18The move comes just days after Brian Snitker transitioned into an advisory role, ending a managerial tenure that began in 2016 and included the 2021 World Series Championship.
00:30Atlanta finished the 2025 regular season with a 76-86 record, its worst since 2017, largely due to a cascade of injuries that season.
00:41Every member of the team's opening day rotation spent time on the injured list, including Ronaldo Lopez, Spencer Strider, Chris Sale, Spencer Schwellenbach, Grant Holmes, and A.J. Smith-Shauver.
00:53The relentless attrition derailed a staff once considered among baseball's deepest and most dynamic.
00:59According to reports, the Braves have parted ways with director of pitching development Paul Davis.
01:06Davis joined Atlanta in 2020, helping engineer one of MLB's most consistent pipelines, with fingerprints visible from Spencer Strider and Spencer Schwellenbach to A.J. Smith-Shauver.
01:16Before arriving in Atlanta, he worked for the St. Louis Cardinals as minor league pitching coordinator and manager of pitching analytics, then served as the Seattle Mariners pitching coach in 2019 before shifting to a front office role.
01:31Within the Braves organization, Davis became known as a data-driven innovator, blending biomechanics, pitch tracking technology, and video analysis to refine pitchers' mechanics.
01:40His progressive methods helped elevate Atlanta's development reputation to one of the most respected in the league, even as his exit signals a philosophical shift in the Braves' player development model.
01:52The club's next hire will help define the future of an organization aiming to recover quickly from its first playoff miss in nearly a decade.
01:59The club's next hire will help define the future of an organization aiming to recover quickly from its first playoff miss in 2020.
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