Matt Bragga

Matthew A. Bragga

• Bats Left, Throws Right
• Height 6' 1", Weight 190 lb.

• School University of Alabama, University of Kentucky

• Born July 20, 1972

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Biographical Information

Matt Bragga has been a minor league infielder and college coach.

Bragga hit .329/?/.533 as a college junior at the University of Kentucky. In 1994, he improved to .361 and slugged .557. He hit .337/.404/.449 for the 1994 Butte Copper Kings with 47 runs and 48 RBI in 63 games; he played the corner infield, catcher and outfield but mostly DH'ed. In a hitter's league, he was still 8th in average (between Julio Mosquera and Terry Wright). That earned him a contract with the Cincinnati Reds. He fell to .248/.328/.329 with the 1995 Charleston AlleyCats as a 1B/OF/DH.

From 1997-2000, he was head coach of Bevill State Community College. The team was 175-350 before he arrived and he went 148-86 there. He was assistant coach at Birmingham Southern College from 2001-2003. He was head coach of Tennessee Technological University from 2004-2018, winning Ohio Valley Conference Coach of the Year four times and winning 446 games, second in school history.

Rice University hired him as head coach for 2019. He was 51-76-1 in 3 seasons then was fired. Bragga then joined Auburn University as director of player development in July 2021. In November of that year he returned to Tennessee Tech as head coach.