ATLANTA — President of baseball operations Alex Anthopoulos has secured most of the Braves’ high gamers all through most of this decade. So it solely made sense for the membership to increase him the identical form of safety.
Anthopoulos’ long-term future in Atlanta was solidified on Friday, when the Braves introduced his contract had been prolonged by way of 2031.
“Alex and I’ve loved an exquisite working relationship, and I sit up for that persevering with for a few years to return,” Braves chairman and CEO of Braves Holdings, LLC, Terry McGuirk stated. “I’ve been round this sport a really very long time and know that Alex’s monitor report of success is actually one thing particular. There may be merely nobody higher within the enterprise. This extension offers Alex the runway to make long-term choices and the chance to proceed his monitor report of assembling groups which can be perennial contenders. I’ve the utmost confidence in his capability to ship championship baseball for our followers effectively into the longer term.”
Anthopoulos joined the Braves on the finish of the 2017 season, somewhat greater than a month after a world market scandal had pressured the ouster of former baseball operations leaders John Hart and John Coppolella. It was one of many lowest factors in group historical past.
Remembering the place the Braves stood when he arrived provides to the splendor of Anthopoulos’ success. The crew has gained the Nationwide League East throughout every of his six seasons in Atlanta. The spotlight of this tenure occurred in 2021, when his nice work on the Commerce Deadline helped the Braves win the World Sequence with out Ronald Acuña Jr., who tore his proper anterior cruciate ligament in July.
“I’d prefer to thank Terry for his continued assist and belief,” Anthopoulos stated. “The Braves are an unbelievable group to be part of, and I’m happy with the success we’ve achieved collectively. I’m grateful for the chance to proceed to steer baseball operations and to attempt to deliver one other World Sequence to Atlanta.”
Anthopoulos’ imaginative and prescient has created the likelihood for the Braves to stay among the many elite groups for a few years to return. His pattern of locking up his younger stars started in 2019, when he gave extensions to Acuña and Ozzie Albies. Acuña has membership choices that can pay him $17 million in each the ’27 and ’28 seasons. Albies has membership choices that can pay him $7 million in each the ’26 and ’27 seasons.
Austin Riley, Matt Olson, Spencer Strider, Sean Murphy, Michael Harris II, Acuña and Albies are additionally set to stay with the membership by way of not less than 2027. Riley is assured by way of ’32 and Harris is assured by way of ’30. Olson has a crew possibility for ’30.
In different phrases, Anthopoulos might be seeing loads of acquainted faces over the span of this extension.
