The Braves on Friday announced the hiring of former Orioles interim manager Tony Mansolino as their new third base coach. He’ll take over for Fredi Gonzalez, whose departure from the staff was reported earlier in the week. Atlanta also hired former Giants pitching coach J.P. Martinez — not to be confused with the former Braves outfielder of the same name — as their new bullpen coach.
The 43-year-old Mansolino took over for O’s skipper Brandon Hyde after Baltimore dismissed him back in mid-May. He’d been Hyde’s third base coach prior to that appointment — a role he’d held dating back to the 2021 season. Mansolino was previously a hitting coach and infield coordinator in Cleveland prior to being hired in Baltimore. A 26th-round pick by the Pirates back in 2005, he played professional from 2005-10 as an infielder Pittsburgh’s system and later on the independent circuit.
Mansolino guided the O’s to a 60-59 record, but that wasn’t enough to erase a disastrous start to the season. Baltimore finished last in the AL East with a 75-87 record. He was in the running for the Orioles’ full-time managerial gig moving forward, but that job went to Guardians associate manager and bench coach Craig Albernaz.
Martinez, also 43, was San Francisco’s pitching coach in 2025 and an assistant pitching coach with the Giants from 2021-24. He broke into the coaching ranks in the low levels of the Twins’ system back in 2015. He served as a pitching coach with Minnesota’s Rookie-level and High-A affiliates before being named the organization’s overall minor league pitching coordinator in 2018 — a role he held until being hired by the Giants in the 2020-21 offseason.
Surprised Martinez wasn’t retained by Giants. Will be interesting who Posey & Vitello as pitching coach
Agreed surprised by that one but it can happen with managerial changes.
Regardless of the 60-59 record he had since taking over the Orioles, Mansolino did an outstanding job, with players, in the dugout, and with the media. it took him about a week – under dire circumstances at that – for him to find his footing and he looked like a major league baseball manager thereafter. It would not be a surprise to see him become a full-time manager in the future.
100% this. Came into the job with injuries to some of the O’s best players, terrible and inconsistent offensive production from key players, and then we traded 2 of the best offensive players we had lol, and he was saddled with a very makeshift starting rotation due to injury or terrible performances. He did a more than admirable job for sure.
Good thing coaches are irrelevant because that is a really bad group.
Never forget that the troll now known as Never Remember is blackpink/Joel/etc.
Everyone is waiting for the Bench Coach announcement…
waiting to see if Washington is healthy enough!!!!
thinking it might be someone more analytically minded to help Weiss with that part, kind of how the Dodgers have with Roberts/Lehmann. maybe it’s just wishful thinking on my part
After much thought and consultation with my family, I have decided to remove my name from consideration for the Atlanta Braves manager’s post.
I’ll admit that I wasn’t overly fond of the decision to hire Weiss. However I cannot knock the new additions made to the coaching staff since then. They have appeared to be not just fresh voices, but solid baseball people.
As Run mentioned above, now just to wait and see who is named bench coach.