Well, Tim Hyers has survived another season presiding over a not-particularly-good Atlanta Braves offense.
His predecessor more or less fired himself. (Or resigned, I guess, you could say.) Other coaching staff turnovers often happen when a team brings on a new manager, but that already happened and Hyers was the one holdover.
So, what will it take? A third not-particularly-inspiring offensive season? A teamwide collapse that takes Walt Weiss and his coaching staff down?
Maybe the answer, the only answer, is
“Tim Hyers resigns like Kevin Seitzer did.”
Maybe the Braves are just waiting for the bottom to drop out of the aggregate. Across 2025-2026, the team is still ninth in xwOBA, though they’re 15th in wOBA / 16th in wRC+ due to underhitting their inputs a bit. (The park effect probably isn’t a particularly big deal for two-year teamwide input ranks.) They’re also just inside the top ten across those two years in runs, and nearly dead average in walk and strikeout rates.
I think the issue is the feeling of, “The Braves are fine-ish, but not as good as they could be.” So, I guess things have to get not-fine for there to be a change. If you look at the arc of team batting stats over the past two years combined, it feels amoeba-y in terms of still ranking towards the top in various metrics a la exit velocity, but no longer at pretty much the apex of MLB in all of them.
Anyway, now that the Braves have apparently opted to retain Hyers despite a middling offensive performance in 2026, it’s just interesting to think about what marker would need to change substantially for them to not do so in the future.
