Arizona State Picked To Repeat As Champion WALNUT CREEK, Calif. — ARIZONA STATE has been chosen as the favorite to win this year’s Pac-10 baseball title, according to a vote by the league’s coaches. For the second-straight season, the Sun Devils were picked to win the Pac-10 crown receiving seven of nine first-place votes,...
Former Big Leaguer Mike Benjamin Is Latest Addition TEMPE, AZ - Major League Baseball veteran Mike Benjamin will join the Arizona State baseball coaching staff. Benjamin played in the big leagues for San Francisco, Boston, Pittsburgh, and Philadelphia. He and current ASU interim head coach Tim Esmay were Sun Devil teammates in 1986 and...
TEMPE, AZ Arizona State Baseball will begin its quest for its sixth National Championship and 22nd trip to Omaha and the College World Series on February 19th when the Sun Devils host the Northern Illinois Huskies at Winkles Field- Packard Stadium at Brock Ballpark in the 2010 Season Opener. Announced today by head coach...
Esmay has been to Omaha six times with ASU, including as a player TEMPE, Ariz. – Arizona State University baseball has named Tim Esmay as interim head coach, Vice President for Athletics Lisa Love announced today. Esmay spent the past five seasons as an assistant coach for ASU Baseball, including the last three as...
By Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires It’s been nearly a week now since Arizona State announced Pat Murphy’s resignation as head baseball coach, and it’s been strangly quiet since then. The NCAA‘s official web site has a section called “The Record” that is devoted to things like coaching hirings, firings and resignations and there has...
Collegebaseball360.com Editor Sean Stires shares some thoughts from another day at the College World Series… Does Arizona State’s Kole Calhoun remind anyone else of the character ‘Ham” Porter from the movie Sandlot? Calhoun (pictured right) and his teammate, Carlos Ramirez, are built more like beer league softball players than college baseball players, but...