Sam Piraro

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Sam Piraro

Biographical Information[edit]

Sam Piraro has coached college baseball for over 35 years.

An infielder in college, Piraro was graduate assistant at San Jose State, his alma mater, in 1974. He remained an assistant through 1979. Piraro hired as the coach of Mission College in 1980. Starting a program from scratch, he went 190-70 in 7 years and was named California Community College Coach of the Year in 1981 and 1983. He returned to San Jose as head coach in the summer of 1986; he missed 2003 due to medical reasons but was otherwise head coach through 2012. He was named Western Athletic Conference Coach of the Year in 1997, 2000, 2008 and 2009. He took the team to the 2000 College World Series, their first-ever College World Series trip. He was 726-540-6 in his first 22 seasons at San Jose State, giving him 916 career wins. Sam has coached future major leaguers Kevin Frandsen, Anthony Telford and Jeff Ball.

Source: SJSU bio

Year-by-Year Coaching Record[edit]

Year School Overall Record Conference Record Notes
1980 Mission College 24-11 13-8
1981 Mission College 31-8 18-6 CCCAA Small College
1982 Mission College 24-13 15-9
1983 Mission College 30-8 17-4 CCCAA Small College
1984 Mission College 21-13-1 14-7
1985 Mission College 33-7-1 19-2 CCCAA
1986 Mission College 27-10-1 16-5 CCCAA
1987 San Jose State University 31-28 8-13
1988 San Jose State University 31-30 9-11
1989 San Jose State University 40-19 11-10
1990 San Jose State University 43-17 9-12
1991 San Jose State University 25-30 7-14
1992 San Jose State University 32-21-1 12-12
1993 San Jose State University 34-19 11-10
1994 San Jose State University 29-26 9-12
1995 San Jose State University 21-33-1 5-16
1996 San Jose State University 28-28 7-14
1997 San Jose State University 38-21 20-10 WAC
1998 San Jose State University 31-23 13-17
1999 San Jose State University 30-26-1 16-11 WAC
2000 San Jose State University 41-24 19-11 CWS Regionals /CWS Super Regionals / CWS
2001 San Jose State University 37-22-1 21-15
2002 San Jose State University 45-17 21-9 CWS Regionals
2004 San Jose State University 23-31-1 11-19
2005 San Jose State University 28-28-1 13-17
2006 San Jose State University 33-26 12-12 WAC
2007 San Jose State University 34-26 11-13 WAC
2008 San Jose State University 31-25 17-14 WAC
2009 San Jose State University 41-20 15-7 WAC
2010 San Jose State University 23-37 9-15 WAC
2011 San Jose State University 35-26 11-13 WAC
2012 San Jose State University 22-29 5-13