Marty Brown (baseball)

Marty Leo Brown (born January 23, 1963 in Lawton, Oklahoma) is the current manager of the Las Vegas 51s and a former Major League Baseball third baseman who played for the Cincinnati Reds (1988–1989) and Baltimore Orioles (1990). He is also the former manager of the Hiroshima Toyo Carp of Japan's Central League, where he played for three seasons from 1992 to 1994, and the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of the Pacific League. He was dismissed by the Golden Eagles on September 29, 2010 and replaced by Senichi Hoshino. He was named manager of the 51s on November 30, 2010.^[1]

Career

Brown was selected by the Cincinnati Reds in the 12th round of the 1985 Major League Baseball Draft. He reached the major leagues in 1988 and appeared in 35 games over two seasons with the Reds and one with the Baltimore Orioles, who had selected him in the Rule 5 Draft in winter 1989. He then played in Japan for several years, before playing for the Oklahoma City 89ers in 1996, his last season before retiring as a player. He began his managing career in the Pittsburgh Pirates system in 1997.^[2]

From 2001 to 2002, he managed the Nashville Sounds, a team for which he played while in the Reds organization in 1988 and 1989. Brown was the manager of the Buffalo Bisons from 2003 to 2005 with an overall record of 238–193 (.552). He led the team to the International League title in 2004 after a regular season record of 83-61. He also managed the club to a first place finish in their division in 2005 with an 82–62 (.569) record. Brown was honored by the league by being voted the Manager of the Year in 2004, and was also named Minor League Manager of the Year by Baseball America.^[2]

Toronto Blue Jays

Prior to the 2011 season he accepted a coaching job for the Blue Jays triple A affiliate the Las Vegas 51s.

References

External links

• Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference, or Fangraphs, or The Baseball Cube
• http://www.baseballwifeblog.com/2010/06/baseball-wife-my-past-life.html