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{{short description|American baseball player (born 1963)}}
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{{Infobox baseball biography
|name=Marty Brown
|image=MartyBrown.jpg
|position=[[Third baseman]] / [[Manager (baseball)|Manager]]
|team=
|number=
|bats=Right
|throws=Right
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1963|1|23}}
|birth_place=[[Lawton, Oklahoma]], U.S.
|debutleague = MLB
|debutdate=September 4
|debutyear=1988
|debutteam=Cincinnati Reds
|debut2league = NPB
|debut2date=April 5
|debut2year=1992
|debut2team=Hiroshima Toyo Carp
|finalleague = MLB
|finaldate=May 30
|finalyear=1990
|finalteam=Baltimore Orioles
|final2league = NPB
|final2date=June 11
|final2year=1994
|final2team=Hiroshima Toyo Carp
|statleague = MLB
|stat1label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat1value=.180
|stat2label=[[Home runs]]
|stat2value=0
|stat3label=[[Runs batted in]]
|stat3value=6
|stat2league = NPB
|stat21label=[[Batting average (baseball)|Batting average]]
|stat21value=.256
|stat22label=[[Home runs]]
|stat22value=50
|stat23label=[[Runs batted in]]
|stat23value=165
|stat24label=Managerial record
|stat24value=318–382–19
|stat25label=Winning %
|stat25value=.454
|teams=
'''As Player'''
*[[Cincinnati Reds]] ({{mlby|1988}}–{{mlby|1989}})
*[[Baltimore Orioles]] ({{mlby|1990}})
*[[Hiroshima Toyo Carp]] ({{npby|1992}}–{{npby|1994}})
'''As Manager'''
*[[Hiroshima Toyo Carp]] ({{npby|2006}}–{{npby|2009}})
*[[Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles]] ({{npby|2010}})
}}
'''Marty Leo Brown''' (born January 23, 1963) is an American former professional [[baseball]] player and [[Manager (baseball)|manager]]. He is a former [[Major League Baseball]] [[third baseman]] who played for the [[Cincinnati Reds]] (1988–89) 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]].
==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 Redhawks|Oklahoma City 89ers]] in {{baseball year|1996}}, his last season before retiring as a player. He began his managing career in the [[Pittsburgh Pirates]] system in {{baseball year|1997}}.<ref name="bamoy"/>
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]]''.<ref name="bamoy">{{cite magazine|url=http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/news/040920brownmoy.html|title=Marty Brown: 2004 Minor League Manager of the Year|date=September 20, 2004|author=Kline, Chris|magazine=Baseball America|accessdate=2006-10-26}}</ref>
Brown served as the manager of the [[Hiroshima Toyo Carp]] from 2006 to 2009, and the [[Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles]] in 2010. He signed a two-year managerial contract with the Eagles, however he was fired after only one last-place season.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2010/10/06/baseball/japanese-baseball/eagles-eye-hoshino-sources/ |title=Eagles eye Hoshino: sources |date=October 6, 2010 |accessdate=June 27, 2018 |work=[[The Japan Times]] |agency=[[Kyodo News]]}}</ref>
Prior to the 2011 season he accepted the managerial position job for the [[Toronto Blue Jays]] then Triple-A affiliate, the [[Las Vegas 51s]], managing the 51s through the 2012 season.
On November 19, 2012, the Blue Jays announced Brown would return as the [[Manager (baseball)|manager]] of the [[Buffalo Bisons]], now the Triple-A affiliate of the Blue Jays.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-40369456|title=Brown to manage Buffalo Bisons|date=19 November 2013|access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121119&content_id=40361122&vkey=pr_t422&fext=.jsp&sid=t422 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140106034356/http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20121119&content_id=40361122&vkey=pr_t422&fext=.jsp&sid=t422 |archive-date=2014-01-06 |title=Blue Jays name Brown Bisons Manager}}</ref> On April 28, 2013, Brown notched his 254th victory as manager of the Bisons, the most wins of any manager in Bisons history.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.milb.com/news/gcs-46053560|title=Bisons, Brown gets record-breaking win|last=Arlington|first=Blake|date=28 April 2013|access-date=8 May 2013}}</ref> On August 11, 2013, Brown recorded his 300th victory as manager of the Bisons.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/222754/4/Marty-Brown-gets-300th-Bisons-win|title=Marty Brown gets 300th Bisons win|date=August 10, 2013|accessdate=August 12, 2013|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130812124337/http://www.wgrz.com/news/article/222754/4/Marty-Brown-gets-300th-Bisons-win|archivedate=August 12, 2013}}</ref>
On December 20, 2013, the Blue Jays announced Brown was leaving the organization.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.sportsnet.ca/baseball/mlb/brown-leaves-manager-position-with-bisons/|title=Brown leaves manager position with Bisons|first=Shi|last=Davidi|work=sportsnet.ca|date=December 20, 2013|accessdate=December 20, 2013}}</ref>
Marty Brown is currently the Washington Nationals' director of Pacific Rim scouting.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2015/07/18/baseball/former-carp-eagles-manager-brown-gets-best-worlds-scouting-nationals/#.VdqMYGb3anM|title = Former Carp, Eagles manager Brown gets best of both worlds through scouting for Nationals|date = 18 July 2015}}</ref>
==References==
{{reflist}}
==External links==
{{Commons category}}
{{Portal|Baseball}}
{{Baseballstats|mlb=111574|espn=2104|br=b/brownma03|fangraphs=1001543|brm=brown-006mar}}
* http://www.baseballwifeblog.com/2010/06/baseball-wife-my-past-life.html
* https://brownsbaseballacademy.com
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{{s-bef | before = [[Katsuya Nomura]]}}
{{s-ttl | title = [[List of Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers|Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles manager]] | years = {{npby|2010}}}}
{{s-aft | after = [[Senichi Hoshino]]}}
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{{Nashville Sounds managers}}
{{Hiroshima Toyo Carp managers}}
{{Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles managers}}
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