SAN ANTONIO – The Braves have hired former San Francisco Giants general manager Pete Putila to be their assistant general manager of international scouting, a person with knowledge of the situation confirmed to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Putila worked under former Giants president of baseball operations Farhan Zaidi. The Giants recently hired Buster Posey to be their president of baseball operations and a new general manager under him.
Putila joins the Braves front office, led by president of baseball operations and general manager Alex Anthopoulos. Putila’s hire gives Anthopoulos three assistant general managers (and their area of focus)
-Jason Paré, research and development (analytics)
-Putila, international scouting
-Ben Sestanovich, player development
Before the Giants hired him two offseasons ago, Putila spent almost 12 years with the Astros – most recently as an assistant general manager from Oct. 2019 to Oct. 2022. In 2011, he started with Houston as a baseball operations intern. He rose up the ladder and became the director of player development before the Astros promoted him to assistant general manager.
Putila graduated from West Virginia University, where he received his bachelor’s degree in sport management and worked as a student manager for the baseball team. He’s a native of Carmichaels, Pennsylvania.
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