Paul Snyder, who helped build the Braves’ teams that were so successful throughout the 1990s, has died, the team announced Friday.

He was 88.

Snyder spent his entire 50-year career in baseball with the Braves, signing as a player in 1958 when the franchise was in Milwaukee and retiring in 2007, when he was the assistant to the general manager.

Over that half century, Snyder reached Triple-A as a player and then managed and scouted in the minors for the organization.

Snyder was named scouting director in 1981 and began his first stint as assistant to the GM in 1991, working with GM John Schuerholz.

He was credited with drafting and developing some of the core of the Braves teams that dominated the National League in the 1990s, including Hall of Famers Tom Glavine and Chipper Jones, as well as Dale Murphy.

The Braves posted a message on X Snyder’s passing, calling him “a true baseball man.”

“It was his talent to find, identify and develop baseball talent that made him so special, and he used that ability to help turn the Braves into a perennial powerhouse over such an illustrious career,” the team wrote in its statement.