TAMPA, Fla. — Max Fried couldn’t help but smile. For years, Atlanta Braves pitching coach Rick Kranitz — one of the people closest to Fried in baseball — had told him the pitcher he ...

But he does when it comes to Max Fried, whom Snitker managed in the first eight seasons of the lefthander’s big-league career. “They’re getting the consummate pro,” Snitker told Newsday in ...