“If it wasn’t for her, he or I wouldn’t be here honestly,” her husband said. “I think she’s just slightly overwhelmed at the moment trying to get her mind around the concept that this is actually happening,” Troy Snitker said.Īnd after the Snitker men finishing raving about each other, they both agreed that the true star of this week is Ronnie. No telling yet what she'll wear, how she'll represent her family's teams. But for Ronnie Snitker, wife of Brian Snitker and Troy Snitker’s mom, navigating through this week might be a bit difficult. The entire family is, of course, thrilled about two Snitkers being in the World Series. HPD: No active shooter at Heights HS, source of threat under investigation.UT Austin professor sues Texas A&M over efforts to hire diverse faculty.The panic of not knowing: Houston parents say the worst part of an 'active shooter event' is the silence.Houston's first immersive mini golf destination opens on Friday.Houston nurse charged with killing 6 in LA crash was in mental health crisis, may have lost consciousness.Yes, Texans actually pay more in taxes than Californians do.Houston nurse hit 130 mph before deadly Los Angeles car crash.
I think he’s a good blend of the old-school way of doing things and he’s very open and gets all the new information that’s out there. “Because I raised him in a dugout, on a bus, on the field a long, a long time ago before analytics were ever invented. “I love the fact that he’s meshed (things),” Brian Snitker said. He spent just one season there before moving on to work for Houston's major league club.īrian Snitker is impressed with the way his son has incorporated the things he learned about baseball growing up with his dad with the newer side of the sport. Troy Snitker coached in college for a bit before joining the Double-A Corpus Christi Hooks as their hitting coach in 2018. “He’s just, he’s been through so much in his career where there were plenty of times where he could have easily decided to go do something else,” his son said. He was the manager of the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves from 2013 until becoming the big league club’s interim manager when Fredi González was fired in May 2016.īrian got the job full-time in 2017 and has led the Braves to the postseason in each of the last four seasons. The 66-year-old Snitker spent 15 seasons a manager for various Braves’ farm teams before working as Atlanta’s third base coach from 2007-2013. He’s the same guy every day when you’re in the clubhouse with him.” “I think that’s the biggest thing that I’ve taken away from him, being able to watch him from a young age at the ballpark. “Just his work ethic,” the 32-year-old Snitker said. Brian Snitker taught his son so much during that time, but as he watched him bounce around teams from Macon, Georgia, to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, it was not what he said, but what he did that served as the most important lesson. Troy Snitker grew up in clubhouses and dugouts, following his father as he toiled as a minor league skipper for most of his childhood.
“I kind of validated the fact that maybe I did something right, the way he turned out,” he said. “Quite honestly, tomorrow at 7:09 or whatever, he’s going to want to kick my (butt),” dad said Monday.īut on the eve of the game, the elder Snitker still found time to play the role of proud papa when talking about his son’s success.
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