Brett Butler

Brett Butler enters his fourth season in the D-backs organization and first as minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator. Butler was the manager last season at Mobile (AA), where he guided D-backs’ prospects Mark Reynolds, Emilio Bonifacio, Carlos Gonzalez, Justin Upton, Max Scherzer and Esmerling Vasquez, until leaving the team when he suffered a mild stroke on July 29.

He also was a manager at Lancaster (A) in 2006 and the first base coach on Bob Melvin’s coaching staff in 2005. Prior to joining the D-backs, Butler managed the New York Mets’ Gulf Coast League affiliate to a 36-24 record and first-place finish in 2004 and was the Mets’ minor league outfield and baserunning coordinator in 2003 and a spring training instructor with the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2002.

Butler, 50, owns a lifetime .290 batting average over 2,213 career games totaling 1,359 runs, 2,375 hits, 277 doubles, 131 triples, 54 home runs, 578 RBI and 558 stolen bases with the Atlanta Braves, Cleveland Indians, San Francisco Giants, Dodgers and Mets from 1981-97. He is one of only 26 players in Major League history to compile at least 500 stolen bases and 2,000 hits.