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Oakland Golden Grizzlies
Baseball current event.svg 2025 Oakland Golden Grizzlies baseball team
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Founded1970
University Oakland University
Head coach Brian Nelson
Conference Horizon League
Location Rochester, Michigan
Home stadium Oakland University Baseball Field "The Den"
(Capacity: 500)
Nickname Golden Grizzlies
ColorsBlack and gold [1]
   
Conference regular season champions
GLIAC: 1978

The Oakland Golden Grizzlies baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Oakland University in Rochester, Michigan, United States. [2] The team is a member of the Horizon League, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Oakland University Baseball Field in Rochester, Michigan.

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Oakland won the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (GLIAC) league championship in 1978. [3]

Head coaches

Year(s)CoachSeasonsW–L–TPct
1970–1971Gene Bolden222–34.393
1972John Scovill114–18.438
1973–1974Bill Pfaff238–28.576
1975Dick Robinson127–15.643
1976–1980Dirk Dieters5126–102–2.552
1987Rob Righter14–28.125
1988–1993Paul Chapoton6135–123.523
1994–1998Steve Lyon5113–101–1.528
1999–2005Mark Avery7129–241–1.349
2006–2007Dylan Putnam240–72.357
2008–2016John Musachio9169–294.365
2017–2019 Colin Kaline / Jacke Healey 343–109.283
2020 Colin Kaline 12–10.167
2021–2024 Jordon Banfield 4109–114.489
2025-PresentBrian Nelson10-0---
Totals1349971–1,289–3.430

Jacke Healey and Colin Kaline were named co-head coaches of the Oakland program on July 12, 2016. [4] Healey was relieved of his duties as co-head coach in June, 2019. Kaline continued as the team's head coach. [5] The team was coached solely be Kaline until his resignation in March 2020 for health reasons. [6] On May 29, 2020, Jordon Banfield was named the programs new head coach. [7] On July 12, 2024, Banfield resigned from Oakland to accept the Head Coach position at Cal-State Bakersfield. [8] Brian Nelson was promoted and named the Interim Head Baseball Coach on July 17, 2024 for the 2025 Season. [9]

Major League Baseball

Oakland has had 19 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. [10] Don Kirkwood one of the only 2 OU players to have played in Major League Baseball. He played for the California Angels, Chicago White Sox and Toronto Blue Jays from 1974 to 1978. The other is Mike Brosseau of the Tampa Bay Rays although he went undrafted he made his way to the pros in though the Rays farm system.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Oakland University Athletics Branding Guidelines". March 14, 2019. Retrieved April 24, 2019.
  2. ↑ "Oakland Grizzlies". d1baseball.com. Retrieved November 2, 2013.
  3. ↑ "Oakland Baseball" (PDF). p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on December 21, 2016. Retrieved December 20, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Colin Kaline and Jacke Healey named Oakland Baseball Co-Head Coaches". www.goldengrizzlies.com. CBS Interactive. July 12, 2016. Archived from the original on June 19, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2018.
  5. ↑ Tony Paul (June 19, 2019). "Oakland baseball ditches co-head coach setup; Colin Kaline gets full-time gig". www.detroitnews.com. The Detroit News. Retrieved July 22, 2019.
  6. ↑ Tony Paul (March 10, 2020). "Colin Kaline, Al's grandson, steps down as Oakland baseball coach for 'health reasons'". www.detroitnews.com. The Detroit News. Retrieved April 6, 2019.
  7. ↑ Tony Paul (May 29, 2020). "Ann Arbor native Jordon Banfield succeeds Colin Kaline as Oakland baseball coach". www.detroitnews.com. The Detroit News. Retrieved May 31, 2020.
  8. ↑ Michael Reedy (July 12, 2024). "Oakland University Baseball Head Coach Jordon Banfield Announces Resignation". www.goldengrizzlies.com. Oakland University. Retrieved July 12, 2024.
  9. ↑ Michael Reedy (July 17, 2024). "Brian Nelson Named Interim Head Baseball Coach for Oakland University". www.goldengrizzlies.com. Oakland University. Retrieved July 17, 2024.
  10. ↑ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Oakland University (Rochester, MI)"". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved July 4, 2014.


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