Casey Dunn

Casey Brent Dunn

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 5' 10", Weight 190 lb.

• School Auburn University
• High School Vestavia High School

• Born October 3, 1976 in Auburn, AL USA

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Biographical Information

Casey Dunn has been a minor league player and a college coach.

Dunn hit .362/?/.515 for Auburn in 1997 and was named the All-Southeastern Conference catcher. Auburn made it to the 1997 College World Series. Among the other All-SEC players that year were Tim Hudson and Brad Wilkerson. He batted .320 and slugged .487 with 67 RBI as a junior, when Matt Frick was the All-SEC backstop. As a senior, he hit .379 and slugged .636 with 86 RBI. He led the SEC in RBI and was the All-Conference catcher. He tied Ken Harvey and Bill Scott for 16th in NCAA Division I in RBI. Baseball America named him second-team All-American, behind 1st-teamer Josh Bard and ahead of 3rd-teamer Dane Sardinha. He finished his Auburn career 3rd in school history in hits (307), RBI (232) and total bases (470) and was named the school's top male athlete his senior year

The Kansas City Royals took him in the 15th round of the 1999 amateur draft, one pick behind Val Pascucci. In his pro debut, he hit .294/.357/.486 for the Spokane Indians with 11 homers and 49 RBI in 58 games. He fielded .996 behind the dish but only caught 14% of those who tried to steal. He tied G.J. Raymundo and Jorge Soto for 9th in the Northwest League in dingers and missed the top 10 in RBI by one (behind Chris Snelling). He did not have enough games to qualify for the lead or he would have led catchers in fielding (Chris Curry led at .991). Gerald Laird beat him out for NWL All-Star catcher. His other season in the minors did not go as well - he hit .283 for the Wilmington Blue Rocks but his OBP was down to .333, his slugging to .351, his homers to one, his fielding to .978 and his caught stealing percentage to 13% as Jeremy Hill got the bulk of the work.

Dunn started the baseball program at Spain Park High School and led them to two county titles in three years. He was assistant at Auburn in 2004 and then became head coach at Samford University. At the time, he was the youngest head coach in NCAA Division I. He won a school-record 34 games in 2006, his second year, and was named Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year. He topped that mark with 37 wins in 2011 and 41 in 2012, when Samford won its first Southern Conference title. He was 530-422 at Samford, setting a school record for wins. In 2022 Dunn moved across town as head coach of University of Alabama at Birmingham.