Bobby Cox first record above .500 since 1974. However, Cox was undone by the 1981 baseball strike when the Braves finished fifth and owner Ted Turner fired him. Asked at a press conference who was on his short list for manager, Turner replied, "It would be Bobby Cox if I hadn't just fired him. We need someone like him around here." The Braves won the National League West division title in 1982 and finished second in both 1983 and 1984 under Cox's successor Joe Torre. Cox finished with a record of 266 wins and 323 losses in the regular season. Cox joined
Panamanian Professional Baseball League Panamanian Professional Baseball League The Panamanian Professional Baseball League (), currently known as Probeis, is a winter professional baseball league consisting of four teams. Founded in 1946, the PPBL joined Organized Baseball in 1948 and operated continuously until 1972.<br> A new Panamanian baseball league started the 2001–02 season as Probeis ("Liga Profesional de Béisbol de Panamá"), but it lasted that season only. By 2010, Los Angeles Dodgers related businessmen restarted the league as LPB (Professional Baseball League), but had poor logistics and operations lasted only one season.<br>In 2011 Probeis made its second run since 2001. The league's champion team played