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
Steve Cox (baseball) first called up to the major leagues on September 17, , along with Jim Morris. In 2007, Cox became the head coach for Porterville College. Steve Cox (baseball) Charles Steven Cox (born October 31, 1974) is an American former professional baseball first baseman. He played in Major League Baseball for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays and in Nippon Professional Baseball for the Yokohama BayStars. Cox attended Monache High School in Porterville, California, graduating in 1992. was chosen in the fifth round of the 1992 Major League Baseball Draft by the Oakland Athletics. He played in their organization for six seasons