Braves 2017 manager after the team removed his interim tag

This story is part of ESPN The Magazines Oct. 31 NBA Preview Issue. Subscribe today!Atlanta BravesOverall: 104 Title track: 58 Ownership: 113 Coaching: 115 Players: 104 Fan relations: 109 Affordability: 64 Stadium experience: 99 Bang for the buck: 85 Change from last year: -22The Braves dropped 22 spots in these rankings, which is not surprising for the team spent most of 2016 hovering around worst in baseball status. But despite a disappointing season (and this triple-digit ranking), there are positive signs upon which to build as management ends the tear down phase and enters a transitional period.Whats goodFor one, Braves tickets average just $19.13 per seat, the second-cheapest in the league and $12 below MLB average. Even if you wont get to see a win (the team won just 31 home games last year), at least you can afford a few beers, though they, at least, will cost you $7.75 each. Although the Braves dipped 21 spots in players, they made notable acquisitions to provide players around whom they can build. The best among those are outfielder Ender Inciarte, a defensive stud who can hit, and shortstop Dansby Swanson, who might just be the next Derek Jeter. The Braves are also well-positioned with superstar first baseman Freddie Freeman locked into his deal until 2021 and top pitcher Julio Teheran, who has shown occasional ace capability, signed through 2019.Whats badIt isnt so much whats bad as it is whats uncertain. The combination of Fredi Gonzalez (who started the season 9-28) and Brian Snitker earned the team a 115th-place ranking in coaching. Gonzalez managed the team to 94 and 96 wins in 2012 and 2013 but was sub -.500 the next two seasons. Snitker, now the Braves 2017 manager after the team removed his interim tag, is an unknown commodity over a full season. The Braves finished the season strong, highlighted by a seven-game win streak comprised entirely against the Marlins, Nationals and Mets. The question is whether that was a fluke or a future reality.Whats newUnsurprisingly, even with the second-cheapest tickets in baseball, a 68-win season dropped the Braves hard in bang for the buck, down 56 spots to 85th overall (seventh-worst in baseball). More changes are to come next season. The Braves are abandoning Turner Field after only 20 seasons and moving to SunTrust Park in the suburb of Cobb County, with claims that the fan experience will be considerably better (Less traffic! Great parking! Better restaurants! Intimate seating!). We wont know if it lives up to its billing until next season really gets going.Next: San Diego Padres?| Full rankings Custom Tony Phillips Jersey . Badenhop was 2-3 with a 3.47 ERA in 63 relief appearances for Milwaukee this season. He is 18-20 in his career with three saves and a 3. 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Underperforming batsmen and an untimely calf flare-up to Steve OKeefe have complicated matters further for Australias interim selection panel on the eve of an especially tense squad announcement for the Adelaide Test.The acting chairman of selectors, Trevor Hohns, is expected to name a 13-man squad for the day/night match on Sunday afternoon, underlining the uncertainty surrounding Australian cricket on the back of five consecutive defeats, and two in a row at home for the first time since the fateful Ashes summer of 2010-11.While the youthful trio of Peter Handscomb, Matt Renshaw and Travis Dean all put their names in lights with centuries, Joe Burns and Callum Ferguson completed double failures in the Sheffield Shield match between Queensland and South Australia at the Gabba to slip further towards the precipice.Of equal concern for the panel is the fact that OKeefe is believed to have suffered a flaring of an ongoing calf problem on day three of the New South Wales v Victoria encounter at the SCG. He had been favoured to return to the Test XI in place of the incumbent Nathan Lyon, who has struck a horrid wicket drought at the worst possible time.OKeefes injury prognosis may also have a knock-on effect for the wicketkeepers Peter Nevill and Matthew Wade. While the Australians are eager for the lower-order heft that Wade could provide, his inferior glovework, particularly to Lyon, may yet play in Nevills favour. A third spin option, Jon Holland, has bowled well for Victoria at the SCG.Another name, not seen in lights for some time, is that of Sam WWhiteman, the Western Australia wicketkeeper.dddddddddddd A half-century and century against Tasmania at the WACA Ground met yet cause his name, too, to be discussed in the stumpers stakes.The elegant New South Wales left-hander Kurtis Patterson did his chances no harm with a well-constructed 55 for his state on Saturday. Patterson and Handscomb would likely slot into the places vacated by Ferguson and the concussed Adam Voges.Renshaw and Dean, two players not considered particularly fashionable in terms of physique or method, both place a high premium on batting time, a quality badly missing in Australias recent defeats. Another possible choice, though less likely, is Victorias Marcus Harris, who moved from Western Australia at the start of the season to good effect - only Handscomb is ahead of him on the national aggregates.Among the pace bowlers to support Mitchell Starc and Josh Hazlewood, the South Australia pair of Chadd Sayers and Daniel Worrall are in the selectors thoughts, as is Jackson Bird. Like his fellow Redback Ferguson, Joe Mennie may yet find himself on the outer after only one Test - a further measure of how much things have changed in the course of a single fractious week.Possible squad Steven Smith (capt), Matt Renshaw, David Warner, Usman Khawaja, Kurtis Patterson, Peter Handscomb, Matthew Wade (wk), Steve OKeefe, Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Lyon, Jackson Bird, Daniel Worrall/Chadd Sayers. ' ' '