Sam Piraro

Sam Piraro

• School San Jose State University

Biographical Information

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

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