Robert James Leary III (born December 3, 1963)Baseball Reference
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and former

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. On November 16, 2012, he was named bench coach of the

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, on the staff of new

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. He had been a coaching assistant with the 2010–2011

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and an

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and

in minor league baseball. He was fired by the Marlins on May 17, 2015. Leary graduated from Junipero Serra High School (San Mateo, California), where he was a teammate of

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. He attended the

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before graduating from

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. A 12th-round choice of the

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in the amateur draft, he played in the Expo

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for five seasons (1986–90), peaking at the Triple-A level in 1990 with two games played for the

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of the

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. The 5 foot, 10 inch (1.78 m), 189-pound (86 kg), right-handed batting and -throwing catcher compiled a

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of .225 in 694

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during the course of his playing career. He then managed for four seasons at the Class A level in the Montreal organization with the

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of the

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and the

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of the

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before serving the Marlins (then known as the Florida Marlins) as an advance scout, roving catching instructor and field coordinator of minor league instruction from through .Boston Red Sox ''2009 Media Guide'', page 517 In , Leary joined the Red Sox as the team's minor league catching instructor, and was promoted to field coordinator the following season. After seven years in that role, he joined the Boston coaching staff for the

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season as an assistant at the Major League level. In August 2010, Leary became Boston's acting first-base coach upon the emergency leave of

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. He served in that role for the last two months of the season and resumed his previous job in . Johnson and Leary were released at the close of the Red Sox' disappointing 2011 season. Leary then spent as the field coordinator for the

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.mlb.com
/ref> On May 17, 2015, Leary and manager Redmond were relieved of their duties for the Marlins. As of , Leary is a scout for the

Arizona Diamondbacks The Arizona Diamondbacks (colloquially known as the D-backs) are an American professional baseball team based in Phoenix. The Diamondbacks compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) West division. The f ...

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