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]
Conference CW Wins CL Losses CT Ties C% Winning percentage
Postseason[A 2] PA Total Appearances[A 3] PW Total Wins PL Total Losses WA College World Series appearances[A 4] WW College World Series wins WL College World Series losses
Championships CC Conference regular season CT Conference tournament[A 5] NC National championship
Coaches [ edit ] 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] 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 – — — — — — — — — — —
^ 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. ^ Postseason play involving the NCAA Division I Baseball Championship . ^ Postseason appearances include seasons with NCAA Division I Baseball Championship bids since the tournament began in 1947. ^ College World Series appearances include seasons with CWS bids since the tournament began in 1947. ^ The Big Ten Conference began a baseball tournament in 1981. ^ Michigan did not sponsor a baseball team in 1917. ^ National and conference coach of the year awards. References [ edit ]
Venues People Seasons National Championships in bold ; College World Series appearances in italics