After 1947, he was traded on November 20, 1947 with $25,000, Dick Kokos, and Bryan Stephens for Walt Judnich and Bob Muncrief.

He then had a successful career as a minor league manager, first in the Houston Astros organization, and then, beginning in 1968, in the New York Mets farm system.

Frazier, managing the Tidewater Tides in 1975, won the International League championship.

The Tides had to win 22 of their last 33 games to finish the regular season in a first-place tie with the Rochester Red Wings.

The Tides then won a one-game playoff behind the four-hit pitching of Nino Espinosa.