Current position | |
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Title | Head coach |
Team | Maine |
Conference | America East |
Record | 154–211 |
Biographical details | |
Born | College Point, New York, U.S. | September 9, 1985
Playing career | |
2004–2007 | Manhattan |
2007 | Batavia Muckdogs |
2007 | Swing of the Quad Cities |
2008–2010 | Palm Beach Cardinals |
2009–2012 | Springfield Cardinals |
2010–2012 | Memphis Redbirds |
Position(s) | Catcher |
Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
2010–2011 | NJIT (Asst.) |
2013 | Manhattan (Asst.) |
2014–2016 | Maine (Asst.) |
2017–present | Maine |
Head coaching record | |
Overall | 154–211 |
Tournaments | NCAA: 0–2 |
Accomplishments and honors | |
Championships | |
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Awards | |
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Nicholas Joseph Derba (born November 9, 1985) is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Maine Black Bears. [1] He played college baseball at Manhattan from 2004 to 2007, before playing professionally from 2007 to 2012.
Derba played college baseball at Manhattan College. While at Manhattan, he played three years (2004-2006) of collegiate summer baseball for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League, [2] [3] [4] [5] and returned to the A's as hitting and catchers coach in 2013. [6] He was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 30th round of the 2007 MLB Draft.
This table depicts Derba's record as a head coach.
Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
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Maine Black Bears (America East Conference)(2017–present) | |||||||||
2017 | Maine | 25–29 | 8–12 | 6th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
2018 | Maine | 20–34 | 12–12 | 5th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
2019 | Maine | 15–34 | 11–12 | 5th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
2020 | Maine | 1–12 | 0–0 | Season canceled due to COVID-19 | |||||
2021 | Maine | 22–22 | 16–17 | 2nd (Division A) | America East Tournament | ||||
2022 | Maine | 27–22 | 21–9 | 1st (Division A) | America East Tournament | ||||
2023 | Maine | 32–21 | 19–5 | 1st | NCAA regional | ||||
2024 | Maine | 12–37 | 8–15 | 7th | |||||
Maine: | 154–211 | 95–82 | |||||||
Total: | 154–211 | ||||||||
National champion Postseason invitational champion |
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