the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Over the years, a number of other pitchers joined the Braves and enjoyed some of their finest seasons under Mazzone only to regress after leaving. Mazzone's "accidental trademark" is his rocking back and forth while sitting in the dugout. On television broadcasts of Braves games, the camera would often show him rocking back and forth during the game. Mazzone's pitching philosophies state that pitchers should throw more between starts (two sessions instead of one) and be able to throw strikes on the low and outside corner of the strike zone. After the 2005 season Leo Mazzone took the Baltimore Orioles pitching coach job. On October 12, 2007 the Orioles fired Mazzone with one year left on his contract. On August 30, 2016, Leo Mazzone was hired by Head Coach Brett Harker of the Furman University Baseball program as a Special Pitching advisor. Honors He was inducted in the Kinston Professional Baseball Hall of Fame in 1993. In his book The Baseball Economist, J.C. Bradbury titles a chapter, "How Good is Leo Mazzone?" Using statistical analysis, he analyzes whether Mazzone had a significant impact upon the pitchers that he coached. The sample is all pitchers who have pitched at least one year under Mazzone and one year under a different pitching coach. Bradbury found that Mazzone lowered the ERA of pitchers by an average of 0.64 points, and that after leaving Mazzone, pitchers' ERA increased by an average of 0.78 points. Bradbury believes that such an impact is deserving of Hall of Fame consideration. ESPN.com lists him number one on the list of "Top 10 Assistant Coaches of All-Time". On July 30, 2022, the Atlanta Braves inducted him into the franchise Hall of Fame. Post-coaching career Currently, Mazzone works as a color commentator for Fox. On August 30, 2016, Mazzone was named Special Advisor to the Furman University (Greenville, SC) Baseball Program. He resides in upstate South Carolina. References External links 1948 births Living people Amarillo Giants players Baseball coaches from Maryland Baseball managers Baseball players from Maryland Atlanta Braves announcers Atlanta Braves coaches Baltimore Orioles coaches Baseball players from West Virginia Birmingham A's players Corpus Christi Seagulls players Decatur Commodores players Georges Creek Valley Major League Baseball broadcasters Major League Baseball pitchers Major League Baseball pitching coaches Medford Giants players Minor league baseball managers People from Keyser, West Virginia Sportspeople from Cumberland, Maryland Tucson