The Braves don’t yet know what attributes they’ll seek in a permanent manager. They could opt for an analytics-based man. They could go old-school. They could wind up promoting from within. Theirs is now an almost-blank slate, but here’s the “almost”:
The new man has to want to be part of this. He has to want to manage the Braves as they are, which is in transition. There’s a plan in place. You might think it balderdash, but the Braves believe this is the only way they can get and stay good again. They’re not backing off because they fired one manager and, via an emailed one-way flight confirmation, botched the firing.