ATLANTA — When you consider 2021 in Atlanta Sports, the Atlanta Braves are positive to cross your thoughts. 

The Braves gained their fourth consecutive division title, then moved on to say the National League Pennant and naturally they didn’t cease there taking house their first World Series title since 1995. One yr later, they erased a giant deficit within the National League East and returned to the postseason. 

The Atlanta Braves are this yr’s Outstanding Team, introduced Saturday through the Atlanta Sports Awards.

It’s extremely troublesome to go back-to-back in World Series wins, which is why no group has achieved it because the New York Yankees who made it a powerful three straight from 1998-2000. 

“It’s definitely hard. You know what you went through the previous year to win the Championship and how hard it is and how much things have to go right. With injuries, guys getting hot at the right time, your team getting hot at the right time. It’s why you don’t see it very often because it is such a hard thing to do and things have to go so well for you to pull it off,” mentioned Atlanta Braves Manager Brian Snitker.

Those moments after the World Series win had been emotional for everybody and particularly for Brian Snitker who has spent his whole profession in baseball with the Atlanta Braves group.

Just how typically does the Skipper take into consideration that World Series win? 

“So much. I’d be mendacity if I didn’t say I give it some thought lots. It’s the top of what we attempt to do in our sport and it’s one thing that I hope by no means goes away. That’s what I instructed our gamers I instructed them they’re World Champions for the remainder of their lives and they need to always remember this,” Snitker mentioned.

The World Series win was additionally a proud accomplishment for General Manager Alex Anthopoulos who captured his first World Series title as a GM. 

“I’m actually pleased with it clearly. I’m going to be pleased with it without end. There’s occasions the place I believe ‘Wow. I can’t consider we gained the World Series,’ and we went to the stadium with my household to take footage with the trophy as a result of we weren’t there,” he mentioned. 

“I’ll all the time be tied to the town of Atlanta and I’m pleased with that. The indisputable fact that the (Atlanta) Braves are the one different group to carry the town a championship it’s simply superior,” Anthopoulos added.

The Atlanta Sports Awards are introduced annually by the Atlanta Sports Council to acknowledge excellent athletic expertise in any respect ranges throughout Georgia.

Others nominated on this class included the UGA soccer group.