| Buck Britton | |
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| Baltimore Orioles – No. 36 | |
| Major League Coach | |
| Born:May 16, 1986 Panorama City, California, U.S. | |
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Buchanan Clyde Britton (born May 16,1986) is an American professional baseball coach with the Baltimore Orioles of Major League Baseball (MLB). He is the older brother of Zack Britton. [1]
Britton attended Canyon High School before transferring to Weatherford High School where he graduated in 2004. [2] [3] He matriculated at Lon Morris College and Stephen F. Austin State University for a year each before graduating from Lubbock Christian University in 2008. He was a second baseman and leadoff hitter who started in all 111 games in his two seasons with the Chaparrals. He had a combined .383 batting average with 164 hits,18 home runs,7 triples and 99 runs batted in (RBI). He was a National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) All-American in his junior year. [2]
Britton was the 1,046th overall selection in the 35th round by the Baltimore Orioles in the 2008 Major League Baseball draft. [2]
He had five hits in 11 at bats in three games with the Delmarva Shorebirds in 2009. [4]
His best season was in 2014 when he slashed .289/.345/.453 with 15 home runs and 67 RBI. [4]
His last year as an active player was in 2016 when he appeared in 73 games with the then-Minnesota Twins affiliate Rochester Red Wings. He ended a professional playing career spent entirely in the minor leagues with a .270 batting average,59 home runs,407 RBI and a .721 on-base plus slugging (OPS). [4]
Britton returned to the Orioles organization to succeed Kyle Moore as hitting coach with the Delmarva Shorebirds in 2017. [4] He replaced Ryan Minor as Shorebirds manager one year later on January 25,2018. [5] The Shorebirds finished with a 68–66 record in his only season as its skipper. [6]
Britton was promoted to succeed Gary Kendall in a similar capacity with the Bowie Baysox in early-February 2019. [6] The ballclub went 149–111 in the two seasons he managed the team,both of which ended with appearances in the Eastern League Championship Series. [7] The Baysox lost to the Trenton Thunder 3–1 in 2019 and the Akron RubberDucks 3–0 in 2021. [8] [9] He coached at the Orioles Alternate Training Site at Prince George's Stadium in the intermediate year when the 2020 Minor League Baseball campaign was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [10]
Britton was elevated to manage the Norfolk Tides on January 26,2022. [7] His record in three years with the ballclub was 233–216. Despite sub-.500 campaigns at 74–76 and 69–81 in 2022 and 2024 respectively,the Tides captured both the International League and Triple-A National Championships in 2023. [11] He received that season's International League Manager of the Year Award on October 4,2023. [12]
Britton was promoted to the Orioles as its major league coach on November 25,2024. [13]