Bobby Cox team featured such future major leaguers as Ron Guidry, Mickey Klutts, Terry Whitfield and Juan Bernhardt. Overall, Cox had a highly successful six-year tenure as a minor league manager, compiling a record of 459 wins and 387 defeats (.543) with two league championships. He then spent the 1977 season as the first base coach on Billy Martin's staff with the World Series–winning Yankees before beginning his MLB managerial career. Cox replaced Dave Bristol as the manager of the Atlanta Braves prior to the 1978 season, inheriting a team that had finished last in the league during the previous two seasons
Ray Miller (baseball manager) seasons, compiling a 157–167 record." Ray Miller (baseball manager) Raymond Roger Miller (born April 30, 1945 at Takoma Park, Maryland) is a former coach and manager in American Major League Baseball. A highly respected pitching coach, he had two short terms as a manager—with the Minnesota Twins (1985–86) and the Baltimore Orioles (1998–99)—compiling a record of 266–297 (.472). A right-handed pitcher, Miller attended high school in Suitland, Maryland, and was named all-state in baseball in 1963, his senior year. He signed his first professional contract with the San Francisco Giants in 1964, then was acquired by the Cleveland Indians farm