List of Michigan Wolverines head baseball coaches

The Michigan Wolverines baseball program is a college baseball team that represents the University of Michigan in the Big Ten Conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had nineteen head coaches since organized baseball began in 1891.[1] The current head coach is Tracy Smith who was hired in 2022.[2]

In those seasons, ten coaches have won conference championships with the Wolverines, four coaches have won conference tournament championships, and two coaches have won national championships: Ray Fisher and Don Lund. Fisher is the all-time leader in games coached (940), wins (636) and years coached (38). Bud Middaugh is the all-time leader in postseason appearances (9) and wins (25). Sport McAllister is the overall leader in winning percentage, while Chris Harrison has the lowest winning percentage.[3]

Key

Coaches

List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards *Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season
# Name Term[A 6] GC OW OL OT O% CW CL CT C% PA PW PL WA WW WL CCs CTs NCs Awards[A 7]
1 Pete Conway 1891–1892 32 22 9 1 .703 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
2 No coach 1893–1895 60 44 15 1 .742 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
3 Frank Sexton 1896, 1901–1902 61 38 22 1 .631 15 12 0 .556 — — — — — — 1 — — —
4 Charles F. Watkins 1897–1898, 1900 34 16 17 1 .485 8 11 0 .421 — — — — — — 0 — — —
5 Henry Clarke 1898–1899 19 14 5 0 .737 5 2 0 .714 — — — — — — 1 — — —
6 Skel Roach 1903 17 12 5 0 .706 7 3 0 .700 — — — — — — 0 — — —
7 Jerome Utley 1904 15 10 5 0 .667 4 5 0 .444 — — — — — — 0 — — —
8 Sport McAllister 1905–1906, 1908–1909 76 58 17 1 .770 14 6 0 .700 — — — — — — 1 — — —
9 Bobby Lowe 1907 16 11 4 1 .719 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
10 Branch Rickey † 1910–1913 104 68 32 4 .673 — — — — — — — — — — — — — —
11 Carl Lundgren 1914–1920 142 93 43 6 .676 27 2 0 .931 — — — — — — 3 — — —
12 Ray Fisher 1921–1958 940 636 295 9 .681 283 135 0 .575 1 4 1 1 4 1 15 — 1 —
13 Don Lund 1959–1962 136 80 53 3 .599 34 19 0 .642 2 10 4 1 4 1 1 — 1 —
14 Moby Benedict 1963–1979 624 367 252 5 .592 168 80 0 .677 4 12 7 1 1 2 3 — — —
15 Bud Middaugh 1980–1989 612 465 146 1 .761 142 38 0 .789 9 25 19 4 3 8 10 5 — —
16 Bill Freehan 1990–1995 334 166 167 1 .499 76 89 0 .461 — — — — — — 0 0 — —
17 Geoff Zahn 1996–2001 334 163 169 2 .491 78 80 0 .494 1 2 2 — — — 1 1 — Big Ten (1997)
18 Chris Harrison 2002 53 21 32 0 .396 14 17 0 .452 — — — — — — 0 0 — —
19 Rich Maloney 2003–2012 585 341 244 0 .583 160 117 0 .578 4 6 9 — — — 3 2 — Big Ten (2007, 2008)
20 Erik Bakich 2013–2022 545 328 216 1 .603 140 93 0 .601 5 13 12 1 4 2 0 2 — NCBWA (2019)
21 Tracy Smith 2023–present 0 0 0 0 – 0 0 0 – — — — — — — — — — —

Notes

  1. ^ A running total of the number of coaches of the Michigan Wolverines. Thus, any coach who has two or more separate terms as head coach is counted only once.
  2. ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship.
  3. ^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  4. ^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947.
  5. ^ The Big Ten Conference began a baseball tournament in 1981.
  6. ^ Michigan did not sponsor a baseball team in 1917.
  7. ^ National and conference coach of the year awards.

References

  1. ^ "Michigan Baseball Coaching History". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 1, 2019.
  2. ^ Svoboda, Kurt (July 3, 2022). "Tracy Smith Announced as Michigan Baseball Coach". MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved July 3, 2022.
  3. ^ "University of Michigan Baseball Record Book" (PDF). MGoBlue.com. CBS Interactive. Retrieved December 1, 2019.