Leo David Mazzone (born October 16, 1948) is a former pitcher in minor league baseball and pitching coach in Major League Baseball. He worked with the Atlanta Braves' organization from to and was the pitching coach for the Baltimore Orioles from to . He is currently the Special Pitching Advisor for the Furman University Baseball program. Early life Although Mazzone was born in West Virginia, his family lived on the other side of the Potomac River's north branch in Luke, Maryland. Growing up there, one of his friends was Sam Perlozzo of nearby Cumberland, Maryland, under whom Mazzone would eventually coach for the Baltimore Orioles. Mazzone was even the best man at Perlozzo's wedding. Playing career A pitcher, Mazzone made his professional debut in with the Medford Giants, a class-A farm team of the San Francisco Giants. In all, he pitched seven seasons in the Giants organization, reaching as high as the Double-A Amarillo Giants, for whom he played four seasons from to . He pitched the next three seasons in the Oakland Athletics chain, reaching Triple-A with the Tucson Toros in . In , he was a player-manager for the class-A Corpus Christi Seagulls. He became their full-time manager the following season. Coaching career Mazzone was the hot tempered manager for the Carolina League Kinston Eagles in . It was the recommendation and contacts of Eagles owner Ray Kuhlman that proved instrumental in Atlanta deciding to take a chance on Mazzone in 1979. Mazzone has earned a reputation as one of the best pitching coaches of the modern era, having molded Tom Glavine and John Smoltz into perennial All-Stars. Greg Maddux also enjoyed his best seasons under Mazzone. During his time in Atlanta, Mazzone developed and coached some of the best pitching rotations in baseball history. In 2005, ESPN ranked the 1998 (#1) and the 1993 (#4) Atlanta Braves pitching staffs as two of the Top 10 rotations of all time. This dominant pitching anchored the Braves' run of 14 consecutive division titles (1991-2005), 5 National League pennants (1991-1992, 1995-1996, 1999) and the 1995 World Series championship. Between 1991 and 1998, three of his pitchers won a total of 6 Cy Young Awards: Tom Glavine - 1991 and 1998 Greg Maddux - 1993, 1994, and 1995 (also won the award in 1992 with the Chicago Cubs) John Smoltz - 1996 Maddux, Glavine, and Smoltz have all been inducted into