Painful Exist :The entire Atlanta braves management,staff and players mourn their former …..

The entire Atlanta braves management,staff and players mourn their former

Jimy Williams, a 1990s Braves third base coach, was formerly the manager of the Blue Jays, Red Sox, and Astros.

Jimy Williams, the Atlanta Braves’ third base coach from 1991 to 1996, passed away. He was eighty years old

In addition to spending a significant amount of time coaching in the major and minor leagues, Williams is most

known for his tenure as manager of the Toronto Blue Jays, Boston Red Sox, and Houston Astros.

In 1980, Williams was hired by the Toronto Blue Jays as an MLB coach for the first time. In 1986, he took Bobby

Cox’s place as the team’s manager, and he led the Blue Jays until 36 games into the 1989 campaign.

After Williams and Cox reunited in Atlanta, the Braves won the National League pennant in 1991 with Williams serving as the team’s third base coach.

Williams coached Atlanta through the 1996 season, which included the team’s 1995 World Series victory, before signing on to manage the Boston Red Sox.

Williams would oversee four complete seasons with Boston before his duties

were terminated in 2001. He led the Red Sox to two postseason appearances in

1998 and 1999, and in 1999 he was named the American League Manager of the Year.

In 2002, he went back to the dugout as the Houston Astros manager, a position he held until the 2004 season was barely halfway through.

After being appointed to the bench coach role in 2006, Williams would rejoin the Philadelphia Phillies as head coach,

where he would win another World Series championship in 2008. After the 2008 season, he would depart from the Phillies.

Born in Santa Matia, California, Williams played as an infielder for the St. Louis

Cardinals for a brief period of time in 1966 and 1967. 14 plate appearances and three hits were his career total.

Williams had a 910-790-1 record with a.535 winning percentage in his managerial career. Three times did he

win ninety games or more, and only one of his full seasons as manager ended in a losing record.

Williams finished second in 1998, fourth in 2001, and seventh in 2000 in addition to winning the 1999 AL Manager of the Year Award.

Williams’ aggressive base-running call that sent Sid Bream to the plate in Game

7 of the 1992 NLCS will live on in the memories of Braves fans. One of the

most iconic moments in the Braves’ history was Bream’s clutch slide, which helped the team win the NL pennant.