Phillip Wellman | |
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![]() Wellman managing the San Antonio Missions in 2016 | |
Outfielder / Coach / Manager | |
Born: Marlin, Texas | December 5, 1961|
Bats: Switch Throws: Right | |
MiLB statistics | |
Batting average | .250 |
Home runs | 36 |
Runs batted in | 161 |
Coaching win–loss record | 862–939 |
Winning % | .479 |
Teams | |
As player
As manager
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Phillip Lane Wellman (born December 5,1961,in Marlin,Texas),is an American professional baseball coach and manager. He is the current bench coach for the Arizona Complex League Padres,Rookie-level affiliate of the San Diego Padres of Major League Baseball. [1] Wellman entered minor league baseball as a player in 1984 and began coaching in 1988. Wellman attended Sam Houston State University and Southwestern University.
Wellman began his coaching career with the 1988 Pulaski Braves. He was a coach in the Atlanta Braves system from 1988 to 1991,including 1990 with the Burlington Braves and 1991 with the Durham Bulls.
Wellman managed outside of the Braves organization from 1992 to 2003,with the exception of 2000,when he was a coach for the minor league Louisville RiverBats. He returned to the Braves as the hitting coach for the Greenville Braves in 2004-2005,and the Mississippi Braves in 2006. Wellman was the skipper of Mississippi from 2007 to 2010.
After the Mississippi Braves finished the 2010 season with a 63–74 record,Wellman's contract was not renewed. [2] He joined the Springfield Cardinals of the Texas League,Double-A affiliate of the St. Louis Cardinals,as hitting coach,and served three years (2011–2013) in that post before his appointment as manager of the Travelers,who also play in the Texas League. [3] He left the Travelers at the end of the season and worked for a trucking company in Chattanooga,Tennessee. Wellman returned to minor league baseball in 2016 as manager of the San Antonio Missions. [4] As of the end of the 2019 season,Wellman is still with the Padres organization,managing the Amarillo Sod Poodles.
On June 1,2007,Wellman gained international attention when he went on a tirade against the umpires during a game against the Chattanooga Lookouts at AT&T Field. He protested the umpire's decision to throw his pitcher out of the game for using a foreign substance [5] by covering home plate with dirt,then tracing in the dirt a new,significantly larger home plate. He then went on to uproot bases and throw them,crawl in a prone position across the infield like a soldier,and pretend to bite and hurl the rosin bag at an umpire as if it were a hand grenade. He concluded his tirade by pretending to eject the umpires themselves with a fist-pump and then blowing a farewell kiss to the crowd while taking a bow. The episode was broadcast on sports shows across the United States and gained him widespread fame on the Internet. [5] Wellman was given a three-game suspension effective June 4,2007. The Braves reappointed Wellman manager of the Mississippi Braves on December 7,2007.
In March 2009,ESPN showed the top-10 meltdowns in sports history and judged Wellman's to be #1. Upon showing the clip,Hannah Storm said,"and there he goes,never to be seen from again." Co-anchor Josh Elliott added,"end of his career." However,this was incorrect. He was still the manager;and on September 13,2008,he led the Mississippi Braves to the Southern League championship beating the Carolina Mudcats 3-2 in the 10th inning of the decisive Game 5. He was also brought up to the major league Atlanta Braves team for a couple of weeks in September 2008,a tradition for top minor-league managers in the Braves organization. [6]
On May 26,2016,in a game against the Northwest Arkansas Naturals,he was ejected after protesting a runner being called out. Before being ejected,he stood in what appeared to be a military parade rest position,then threw the rosin bag as a grenade. Upon being ejected by the umpire,he first kicked the second base,then pulled the base from the ground and walked away with it. He then tossed the base in front of the San Antonio Missions dugout before walking off the field. [7]
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