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Braves Hire Hugh Quattlebaum, Carlos Méndez As Assistant Hitting Coaches

By Leo Morgenstern | November 22, 2024 at 2:56pm CDT

The Braves announced a couple of additions to their major league coaching staff today. Hugh Quattlebaum and Carlos Méndez will join Brian Snitker’s staff as assistant hitting coaches, working alongside new hitting coach Tim Hyers. Quattlebaum was hired away from the Diamondbacks, while Méndez was promoted from within the Braves organization.

Quattlebaum has been coaching in affiliated ball since 2018 when the Mariners hired him as a minor league hitting coordinator. He left to become the Mets’ director of hitting development in 2021, and briefly served as the team’s interim hitting coach, replacing Chili Davis partway through the year. Quattlebaum returned to his role as director of hitting development in 2022 before he was let go at the end of the season. He then joined the Diamondbacks as the team’s assistant director of hitting for the 2023 and ’24 campaigns. 

Méndez was primarily a catcher and first baseman during his long professional playing career. While he played his lone big league season with the Orioles in 2003, his last stop in the minor leagues was with the Braves organization. He suited up for the Triple-A Richmond Braves from 2005-07. Since then, he has worked as a minor league coach in the organization. This is his first big league coaching job.

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  1. This one belongs to the Reds

    11 months ago

    Quattlebaum sounds like something you put on a sensitive area.

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    • Bart Harley Jarvis

      11 months ago

      With that amazing name, it’s more likely he was hired away from a Charles Dickens novel.

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    • paddyo furnichuh

      11 months ago

      I heard he puts the baum in quattle.

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    • braveshomer

      11 months ago

      The Mandlebaum’s long lost cousin

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      • Bart Harley Jarvis

        11 months ago

        Mandlebaum! Mandlebaum! Mandlebaum!

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  2. Reynaldo's

    11 months ago

    Can they assist Jarred Kelenic on how to hit Major League pitching?

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    • sufferforsnakes

      11 months ago

      They’re hitting coaches, not miracle workers.

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  3. Salzilla

    11 months ago

    I’d hire Hugh Quattlebaum just to have his name on the payroll and get a little giggle every time I see his name.

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  4. Grump

    11 months ago

    Hope they don’t believe in “Launch Angle” hitting.

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  5. los_leebos

    11 months ago

    80-grade name alert!

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    • Brave New Guy

      11 months ago

      I honestly don’t know that Hugh fellow very well. I know Mendez well.

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  6. Canuckleball

    11 months ago

    Hugh came straight outta Hogwarts. Maybe he can teach them to hit with a broomstick.

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  7. Big Poison

    11 months ago

    I used to date a girl with a huge quattlebum.

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