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Paul Snyder (baseball)

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Snyder managed Braves' farm clubs and scouted for them between 1963 and 1972. In 1973, he joined the team's front office as assistant minor league administrator before taking the reins of the Braves' farm department in 1977. Working with then-general managers
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season and performed several key functions in the Braves' baseball operations department in addition to working as scouting or player development director.
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on June 11, 1935. He spent his entire 50-year professional baseball career in the Braves' organization, signing with them as an
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award given by Minor League Baseball. In 2013, he was selected for the Professional Baseball Scouts Hall of Fame.
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in the Braves' farm system. Snyder, however, was a strong hitter in his playing days, compiling a lifetime
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named him one of the top 25 people in the game on the publication's 25th anniversary in 2006.
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season, which saw Schuerholz move upstairs to the team presidency and a new general manager,
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of .318 during his seven-year active career. In his finest over-all campaign, 1962 with the
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When the MLB Braves went through a prolonged rebuilding process after winning the
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at age 40 that required brain surgery and an extensive period of rehabilitation.
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and continued into the first decade of the 21st century, as the team's longtime
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championship, Snyder, by now scouting director, assisted general manager
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in drafting and developing the talent base—players such as
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when he took over the Atlanta front office after the
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Snyder died on November 30, 2023, at the age of 88.
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Dallastown, Pennsylvania
Major League Baseball
Atlanta Braves
1991
amateur scouting
general manager
player development
Baseball America
Dallastown, Pennsylvania
outfielder
first baseman
Milwaukee
Triple-A
Denver Bears
Pacific Coast League
minor league
manager
batting average
Austin Senators
Double-A
Texas League
home runs
RBI
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Bill Lucas
John Mullen
Joe Torre
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