Buddy Bailey

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Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born March 28, 1957 in Madison Heights, Virginia) is the manager of the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League.

Bailey began the 2006 season as the roving minor league catching instructor for the Chicago Cubs before assuming the managerial reins in midseason as interim skipper of the Daytona Cubs of the Class A Florida State League. He was named the 2007 skipper of the Cubs' Iowa affiliate in November 2006.

A former catcher who never reached Major League Baseball as a player, he managed in the Atlanta Braves organization from 1983 through 1990, winning the AA Southern League pennant in 1988.

Bailey joined the Boston Red Sox as manager of their Class A Lynchburg Red Sox affiliate in the Carolina League in 1991-92. He than became the ninth skipper in the history of the AAA Pawtucket Red Sox in 1993, the youngest manager in team history at the time. He would lead the "PawSox" for seven seasons, spread over two terms (1993-96; 2002-04). Under Bailey, the PawSox played for the 2003 Governors' Cup, the championship of the International League. They were defeated by the Durham Bulls. He won Manager of the Year twice in the IL, in 1996 and 2003, becoming one of only four managers to do that in league history.

Bailey also spent one season (2000) as the bench coach for the parent Red Sox and was Boston's advance scout, coordinator of minor league instruction or roving catching instructor during the period of 1997-99 and in 2001.

Preceded by Rico Petrocelli	Pawtucket Red Sox manager 1993–1996	Succeeded by Ken Macha
Preceded by Gary Jones	Pawtucket Red Sox manager 2002–2004	Succeeded by Ron Johnson
Preceded by Mike Quade	Iowa Cubs manager 2007–present	Succeeded by current manager