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Buddy Bailey manages the Daytona Cubs in 2011 |
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| Born: March 28, 1957 Norristown, Pennsylvania |
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| Bats: Right | Throws: Right |
| MiLB managerial statistics (through the 2010 season) |
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| Win-Loss record | 567–559 |
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Welby Sheldon "Buddy" Bailey (born March 28, 1957 in Norristown, Pennsylvania) is the manager of the Daytona Cubs of the Class A Florida State League and a veteran skipper in minor league baseball. In 2011, Bailey will spend his third consecutive season as Daytona's manager.[1] He has been a member of the Chicago Cubs organization since 2006.
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Bailey returned to Daytona, where he managed for the last half of the 2006 season, in 2009 after two seasons in higher-classification leagues. In 2008, he managed the Tennessee Smokies of the Class AA Southern League. Under him, the Smokies finished in last place in the SL's North Division with a mark of 62-77 (.446).[2] He was replaced by Baseball Hall of Fame member and all-time Cub great Ryne Sandberg as Smokies' manager on December 17, 2008.[3]
Bailey spent the 2007 season as pilot of the Iowa Cubs of the Class AAA Pacific Coast League. Iowa finished second overall in the PCL American North Division standings with a 79-65 record in 2007. Bailey joined the Cub organization in 2006 as its roving minor league catching instructor, before assuming the Daytona managerial reins in midseason as interim skipper.
A graduate of Amherst County High School, Amherst, Virginia, and Lynchburg College,[4] Bailey signed his first pro contract with the Atlanta Braves in 1979. A catcher, he threw and batted right-handed, stood 6 feet (1.83 m) tall and weighed 193 pounds (87.5 kg). Bailey never reached Major League Baseball as a player, hitting .210 with six home runs over four minor league seasons, mostly at the Class A level.[5] He managed in the Atlanta 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, field coordinator of minor league instruction, or roving catching instructor during the period of 1997-99 and in 2001. Bailey also has been the manager of Tigres de Aragua of the Venezuelan Winter League (LVBP) since 2002 and has five championships, and one sub-championship in six finals. Bailey was named the Manager of the Year in 2006-2007.
| 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 Don Buford |
Daytona Cubs manager 2006 |
Succeeded by Jody Davis |
| Preceded by Mike Quade |
Iowa Cubs manager 2007 |
Succeeded by Pat Listach |
| Preceded by Jody Davis |
Daytona Cubs manager 2009—present |
Succeeded by Incumbent |