Angel Flores
Camp Director
“Flo” returns to Rome for his second stint as Manager of Atlanta’s High-A affiliate. It’ll be his third stay in the city of seven hills and three rivers, dating all the way back to the 2021 season when he served as a catching coach and assistant under Kanekoa Texeira, who he would replace as Manager in 2023.
The 2023 season, Flores’ first in a managerial role, would see the Rome Braves go 64-68, finishing 6.0 games back of First-Half Champion Greenville and 10.0 games back of Second-Half Champion Hickory.
Both Flores and Texeira would receive promotions in the 2023-24 offseason, with “Tex” making the jump to Triple-A Gwinnett to manage the Stripers and Flores once again succeeding him, this time in Pearl, Mississippi. The M-Braves finished 2024 with a record of 63-73, 16.5 games back of Montgomery in a talent-infested Southern League.
Flores, 38, was drafted out of Petra Corretser High School in Manati, Puerto Rico, in the 46th round of the 2003 MLB June Amateur Draft by the Florida Marlins. After a six-year minor league career in the Detroit Tigers organization, he would transition over to Indy Ball and play six seasons with seven different teams. In 2017, Flores was hired by the Atlanta Braves organization and spent his first few seasons developing younger players in the rookie leagues.