HAMPTON ROADS — The Baltimore Orioles recently announced the coaching staff for the 2025 season, and Tides manager Buck Britton was promoted to the Major League coaching staff.
His position is listed as “Major League Coach.”
Britton, 38, completed his third year managing Norfolk in 2024 and his 15th season in the Orioles organization. He was drafted by the Orioles in the 35th round of the 2008 draft out of Lubbock Christian University.
Britton would go on to play seven seasons in Baltimore’s organization, including four seasons with the Norfolk Tides (2010, 2012-14). He played in the Los Angeles Dodgers organization in 2015 and the Minnesota Twins organization in 2016 before retiring as a player.
In 2017, Britton came back to the Orioles organization as a hitting coach for the Single-A Delmarva Shorebirds. He was elevated to manager at Delmarva for the 2018 season and then became the manager of the Double-A Bowie Baysox in 2019.
With the season canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, he coached at the Orioles Alternate Training Site but returned to Bowie as manager in 2021. Bowie reached the league championship series in both of the seasons Britton managed, and he won the Eastern League Manager of the Year Award in 2019.
In his first season managing Norfolk in 2022, Buck went 74-76. He followed that up with a 90-59 season in 2023 for the Tides, leading Norfolk to its first International League Championship since 1985 and second Triple-A National Championship and was named the 2023 International League Manager of the Year. He finished his third season at Norfolk with a 69-81 record, totaling 233-216 with the Tides — the fifth-most regular season managerial wins in franchise history, the team noted.
In his six career seasons as a manager, Britton has 450 wins and 393 losses with an 8-8 career playoff record.
Britton was the 2021 and 2023 recipient of the Orioles’ Cal Ripken Sr. Player Development Award, given annually to a minor league staff member who exemplifies Ripken’s qualities as an instructor. He is just the third multi-time winner since the award’s inception in 2003.
This will be Britton’s first coaching position at the MLB level. He is the older brother of former Orioles pitcher, two-time All-Star, and 12-year MLB veteran Zack Britton. In 2023, Buck was named manager of the 30th-Year All-Harbor Park team, voted on by fans.
Buck was born in Panorama City, California, and graduated from Weatherford High School in Texas. He played JUCO baseball at Lon Morris College and then played Division I baseball at Steven F. Austin University and Lubbock Christian University.
