Tag: Nate Yeskie

LSU hiring Terry Rooney as baseball recruiting director

A former assistant at LSU from 2007-08, Terry Rooney returns to Baton Rouge after his most recent stint at Purdue.

LSU has hired [autotag]Terry Rooney[/autotag] as its Director of Recruiting and Program Development, according to multiple reports. The news was first reported by D1Baseball’s Kendall Rogers.

Rooney, who spent the last two seasons as the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Purdue, is a familiar face in Baton Rouge. He previously served as LSU’s pitching coach from 2007-08.

He left to become the head coach at UCF, where he spent eight seasons and amassed a 261-210 record with two NCAA regional appearances. Since leaving the Knights, he was associate head coach — and briefly interim head coach — at Alabama in 2017.

Rooney was the pitching coach at Houston from 2018-21 before joining the Boilermakers.

It’s the second assistant coach LSU has hired this offseason. Coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] also brought in [autotag]Nate Yeskie[/autotag] as pitching coach from Texas A&M. Yeskie will replace [autotag]Wes Johnson[/autotag], who left to take the head coaching job at Georgia.

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LSU baseball hiring Texas A&M’s Nate Yeskie as pitching coach

Nate Yeskie spent the last two seasons in the same role at Texas A&M after working with Jay Johnson from 2020-21 at Arizona.

Following a national championship victory, LSU coach [autotag]Jay Johnson[/autotag] has made a pitching coach hire to replace [autotag]Wes Johnson[/autotag].

The Tigers are hiring [autotag]Nate Yeskie[/autotag], who spent the last two seasons with Texas A&M in the same role. It’s a reunion between Yeskie and Jay Johnson as the pair worked together at Arizona in 2020 and 2021, when Yeskie was also the pitching coach there.

Yeskie is a two-time National Pitching Coach of the Year and won a College World Series championship in 2018 while working at Oregon State.

“I couldn’t be more excited to add Nate Yeskie as our new pitching coach,” Johnson said in a release. “Nate has an unmatched track record in college baseball for pitching coaches relative to developing pitching talent for professional baseball, College World Series trips, and winning in general. His coaching acumen is very complete and current, and future pitchers at LSU will develop to their highest potential because of the opportunity to work with Coach Yeskie.

“Nate is the perfect coach to lead a great group of returning pitchers in the 2024 season. This is another great step for LSU Baseball coming on the heels of a seventh National Championship. Adding Coach Yeskie is a great first step toward working for No. 8!”

Yeskie replaces Wes Johnson, who spent 2023 with the Tigers after previously working as the pitching coach in the MLB for the Minnesota Twins. Johnson left to become the head coach at Georgia following the season.

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Report: LSU is hiring Texas A&M pitching coach Nate Yeskie to the same position

D1 Baseball’s Kendall Rogers has reported that LSU is in the process of hiring Texas A&M pitching coach Nate Yeskie.

While NBA free agency and college football recruiting continue to dominate the headlines this summer, the college baseball offseason has provided us with its first piece of explosive news coming out of College Station, TX, as D1 Baseball Managing Editor Kendall Rogers has reported that Texas A&M pitching coach Nate Yeskie, who has been with the program since the 2021 seasons, has reportedly taken the same position the 2023 National Champion LSU Tigers.

At first glance, the move is somewhat surprising due to the Aggies’ pitching regression since the 2022 season, posting a 4.67 Team ERA, as 2023 produced a paltry 5.67 Team ERA, including a personal 6.32 ERA from Texas A&M Ace Nathan Dettmer. LSU, who went on an incredible post-season run behind the arm of future No.1 overall pick Paul Skenes (12-2, 1.69 ERA, 209 SO), Yeskie’s experience will likely aid what will be a youthful pitching staff that will try to avoid attrition after losing Skenes.

Despite how Texas A&M’s (38-27, 14-16 SEC) pitching staff performed during the regular season, strides were made in the postseason from nearly every starter, while the bullpen finally found some confidence down the stretch, and Yeskie deserves a ton of credit for stemming the tide.

Here is Head Coach Jim Scholossnagle’s official sendoff to Nate Yeskie:

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