Buddy Bailey

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Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born March 28, 1957 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is the 2008 manager of the Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League in American minor league baseball.

He spent the 2007 season as pilot of the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League before his appointment as the Smokies' manager on December 18, 2007. Iowa finished second overall in the PCL American North Division standings with a 79-65 record in 2007. Bailey joined the parent Chicago Cubs organization in 2006 season as its roving minor league catching instructor, before assuming the managerial reins in midseason as interim skipper of the Daytona Cubs of the Class A Florida State League.

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 Southern League pennant as pilot of the Greenville Braves 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 then 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 Grady Little	Boston Red Sox Bench Coach 2000	Succeeded by Dave Jauss
Preceded by Gary Jones	Pawtucket Red Sox manager 2002–2004	Succeeded by Ron Johnson
Preceded by Mike Quade	Iowa Cubs manager 2007	Succeeded by Pat Listach

He is the manager of Tigres de Aragua of venezuelan league (LVBP) since 2002 and has 4 championships, 1 sub-championship in 5 finals. Bailey was the Manager of the Year 2006-2007