Chad Tracy Manager
AGE: 39 BORN: July 4, 1985 in Arlington Heights, IL RESIDES: Fairfield, OH
Chad Tracy returns for his fourth season as WooSox manager in 2025. Tracy, 39, was named as the second manager in Worcester Red Sox history on December 13, 2021. He has led the WooSox to winning seasons during each of his three years at the helm including 79 win campaigns in both 2024 (79-71) and 2023 (79-68). His first WooSox club in 2022 finished 75-73. Tracy, who goes by the nickname “Trace”, led the WooSox to another successful season despite the busiest year of player moves in Red Sox Triple-A history. The 2024 WooSox built on a pair of all-time Red Sox Triple-A records (previously set by the 2023 WooSox) as they made 281 player transactions during the 2024 campaign and set a new all-time Red Sox Triple-A record for players appearing in a single season. The WooSox used 84 different players in 2024 (37 position players and 47 pitchers) to better the mark of 79 players in 2023. Ironically, the 2021 WooSox broke a long-standing Red Sox Triple-A record when they used 72 different players to beat the 1995 Pawtucket Red Sox (during a strike year when replacement players were used for the first month+ of that season) and the 2006 PawSox who each employed 70 different players. When Tracy made his Worcester debut in 2022, the WooSox quickly set a new record using 75 different players (that was immediately topped first in 2023 and again in 2024). Under Chad’s direction, the WooSox have stayed extremely consistent when it comes to sending players to the Boston Red Sox. In 2024 the WooSox sent 28 different players to Boston (not counting rehab players). The list featured…INF David Hamilton, INF Romy Gonzalez, RHP Cooper Criswell, LHP Cam Booser, INF/OF Nick Sogard, RHP Greg Weissert, RHP Luis Guerrero, RHP Richard Fitts, INF Vaughn Grissom, and RHP Quinn Priester among several others. Furthermore, 24 different WooSox players were promoted to Boston during the 2023 season including Jarren Duran, Chris Murphy, Brandon Walter, David Hamilton, Wilyer Abreu, and Ceddanne Rafaela. 28 was also the lucky number of “graduates” in Tracy’s first season in 2022 led by Brayan Bello, Triston Casas, Kutter Crawford, Duran, Rob Refsnyder, John Schreiber, Josh Winckowski, Connor Wong, and more. For all that and more, Chad has been chosen by his peers in the International League as the “Best Managerial Prospect” in the league in a poll conducted by Baseball America during both the 2023 and 2024 seasons. Prior to making his WooSox debut in 2022, Tracy had spent the previous seven seasons (2015-21) in the Los Angeles Angels organization, including three as a minor league manager with Low-A Burlington (2015) and High-A Inland Empire (2016-17). For four seasons (2018-21), he served as the Angels’ Minor League Field Coordinator.
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