Atlanta Braves manager Brian Snitker was feeling restless. The defending champions were keeping him up at night.
When his team dropped the first two games of a series against the Arizona Diamondbacks to close out May, the Braves had fallen four games under .500 and Snitker decided something needed to be done.
"I was rolling around, not sleeping," he recalled. "Then I started jotting some notes down in my hotel room and I needed to get in front of them. We weren't ourselves.
"I was getting texts, 'Are you going to blow these guys up?