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Assistant Coaches / Baseball Staff
Cal Poly Assistant Coach Teddy Warrecker
TEDDY WARRECKER 11th Year
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Teddy Warrecker joined the Cal Poly coaching staff in the Fall of 2010 and was elevated to Recruiting Coordinator in 2012.
During an eight-year stretch from 2012-19, the Mustangs amassed 268 victories, the seventh-highest total among the 24 California schools with Division I baseball programs. Averaging 33 wins per season during those seven campaigns, the victory total is ninth among 46 schools in the NCAA’s West Region. In addition, from 2012-14, Cal Poly averaged 41 wins a year with 123 victories, more than any other Division I team in California.
The historic 2014 campaign saw Cal Poly shatter the school record with 47 wins, finishing 47-12. The Mustangs, ranked No. 1 for a week by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper after sweeping Cal State Fullerton in mid-April, claimed the Big West title with a 19-5 record, two games ahead of Long Beach State and four in front of UC Irvine.
As the Recruiting Coordinator, the Mustangs have seen 12 top-10 round MLB draft picks in Matt Imhof (second), Spencer Howard (second), Mark Mathias (third), Nick Torres (fourth), Erich Uelmen (fourth), Alex McKenna (fourth), Taylor Dollard (fifth), Nick Meyer (sixth), Brian Mundell (seventh), Zack Zehner (seventh), Bobby Ay (ninth) and Justin Calomeni (ninth). Three players have played for the USA collegiate team during Warrecker’s tenure at Cal Poly -- Matt Imhof (2013), Mark Mathias (2014) and Nick Meyer (2017). Chris Hoo was the recipient of the Rawlings Gold Glove for best defensive catcher in the nation in 2014. Chris Hoo (2014), Peter Van Gansen (2015) and Nick Meyer (2017) all earned Big West defensive players of the year honors. Mark Mathias (2014) and Alex McKenna (2018) were named Big West Players of the Year.
From 2001-10, Warrecker compiled a 193-198-2 record as the head coach at Santa Barbara City College. Prior to his arrival, the team had endured 19 straight sub-.500 seasons. In the last seven years at SBCC, Warrecker guided the Vaqueros to six winning campaigns, including a 20-16 mark in his final season (2010), and three regional playoff appearances. The Vaqueros went 102-65 (.611 winning percentage) over his last four seasons at the school. The 2007 Vaquero squad captured the WSC-North Conference title, ending a 35 year Conference title drought. The 34 wins in 2007 is still a school record. Prior to his 10-year stint at SBCC, Warrecker assisted his father at Santa Barbara High School, where the Dons won the Channel League in 1999, and 2000 and reached the CIF-Southern Section Division II championship game at Dodger Stadium in 2000. Warrecker was a catcher and first baseman at Allan Hancock College in Santa Maria and was a two-time first-team all-conference selection, first-team AllNorthern California and first-team All-State. He helped the Bulldogs to back-to-back Northern California regional playoff appearances (1992, 1993) and the Coast Valley Conference championship in 1993, while setting school career records in home runs and RBI. Warrecker played for the Kenai Oilers of the Alaskan Baseball League, a team that went on to win the NBC National Championship in Wichita, Kansas. He attended the University of Arizona, playing for College Baseball Hall of Famer Jerry Kindall. Warrecker signed with the Cleveland Indians following his junior year at Arizona. Warrecker was drafted four times starting in 1991 (Texas), 1992 (Houston), 1993 (Cleveland), 1994 (Cleveland).
Warrecker spent six seasons (1994-99) in the minor leagues as a pitcher with the Cleveland Indians, Los Angeles Dodgers and Atlanta Braves. In addition, he was invited to the Indians' Major League Camp as part of the 40man roster in 1997. Warrecker also played in the Hawaii Winter League for the West Oahu Cane Fires.
After professional baseball, Warrecker completed his bachelor's degree in history at Cal State Northridge and his master's degree in sport science from the United States Sports Academy.
Warrecker, who has five brothers, attended Santa Barbara High School and played for his father and head coach, Fred Warrecker, who retired after 43 years as head coach. Baseball is synonymous with the Warrecker family name. Fred Warrecker was MVP for the UCSB Gauchos baseball squad in 1960, while brothers Willy, Wes and Donovan played at California, San Francisco State and UCSB respectively.
Warrecker and his wife Taryn, have two sons: Troy, 14, and Crosby, 9.
NCAA Champions (2000-Present)
2020 Canceled due to COVID-19 pandemic 2019 Vanderbilt (def. Michigan 4-1) 2018 Oregon State (def. Arkansas 5-0) 2017 Florida (def. LSU 6-1) 2016 Coastal Carolina (def. Arizona 4-3) 2015 Virgina (def. Vanderbilt 4-2) 2014 Vanderbilt (def. Virginia 3-2) 2013 UCLA (def. Mississippi State 8-0) 2012 Arizona (def. South Carolina 4-1) 2011 South Carolina (def. Florida 5-2) 2010 South Carolina (def. UCLA 2-1) 2009 LSU (def. Texas 11-4) 2008 Fresno State (def. Georgia 6-1 2007 Oregon State (def. North Carolina 9-3) 2006 Oregon State (def. North Carolina 3-2) 2005 Texas (def. Florida 6-2) 2004 Cal State Fullerton (def. Texas 3-2) 2003 Rice (def. Stanford 14-2) 2002 Texas (def. South Carolina 12-6) 2001 Miami (Florida) (def. Stanford 12-1) 2000 Louisiana State (def. Stanford 6-5)
Cal Poly Assistant Coach Jake Silverman
JAKE SILVERMAN Second Year
Jake Silverman, an assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, UCLA and Nevada over the previous 11 seasons, was hired as Cal Poly’s pitching coach in August 2019.
Silverman worked with the catchers, served as recruiting coordinator and also assisted with hitting and base running at Nevada the last four years (2016-19).
Before taking the job at Nevada, Silverman spent five seasons (2011-15) with UCLA as an assistant to the pitching coach, helping the Bruins compile a 202-103-1 record in that span with four postseason appearances. Silverman and UCLA earned two trips to the College World Series, including the Bruins’ national championship season in 2013.
Silverman also coached at Cal State Fullerton as an undergraduate assistant for two seasons (2009-10).
“Jake is a great addition to our staff,” said Mustang head coach Larry Lee. “He has learned from some of the best coaches in college baseball. He is young and has the energy necessary to be successful at this level.
Silverman helped the Nevada Wolf Pack haul in the 35th-ranked recruiting class in 2016 as selected by Collegiate Baseball. It is the first nationally ranked recruiting class in school history. Nevada boasted one of the most prolific offenses in the Mountain West, posting a .338 team batting average in conference play on its way to winning the regular-season title in 2018. Nevada’s 2016 squad tied for second in the Mountain West with a .319 batting average and led the conference fielding .977. The .977 field percentage set a school record and ranked in the top 25 nationally. In his final year at UCLA, Silverman helped guide the Bruins to a 45-16 overall record, a Pac-12 title and a 3-2 record at the regionals. The Bruins posted a 49-17 record in 2013 and matched a school record with 21 league wins. UCLA went 10-0 in the postseason and won the program’s first national championship. In his first season with UCLA (2011), the Bruins posted a 35-24 record and won their first outright Pac-12 title since 1986.
In two seasons as an undergraduate assistant coach at Cal State Fullerton, Silverman helped the Titans advance to the College World Series in 2009 and to an NCAA Super Regional in 2010.
A native of Tustin, Calif., Silverman is a 2005 graduate of Foothill High School in Santa Ana. At Fullerton College, he batted .350 in 16 games as a freshman in 2006. In 2007, he earned the Art Nunn Award for exemplary acts on and off the field while seeing action in 14 games.
Silverman earned an associate’s degree from Fullerton College before obtaining a bachelor’s degree in communications from Cal State Fullerton in 2009.
Volunteer Assistant Coach Justin Bridgman
JUSTIN BRIDGMAN Volunteer Assistant Coach First Year
Justin Bridgman, who served as graduate manager at Arizona last spring following a four-year playing career at Nevada and two seasons in the Minor Leagues, was hired as a volunteer assistant coach at Cal Poly in July 2020.
A graduate of Damonte Ranch High School in Reno, Nevada, Bridgman became a starter as a true freshman at Nevada and appeared in 203 games for the Wolf Pack, hitting .311 with 33 doubles and 75 RBIs with 33 steals. He was primarily a second baseman early in his career with the Wolf Pack before becoming a shortstop as a junior and senior.
Earning second-team All-Mountain West Conference honors as a senior with a .313 average and named to the AllMountain West Tournament Team as a junior after hitting .351, Bridgman was drafted by the Tampa Bay Rays in the 28th round in 2017 and played for four teams in the minors -- Princeton, Hudson Valley, Charlotte and Bowling Green -- hitting .281 with 11 doubles and 34 RBIs in 100 games.
After his playing career ended, Bridgman served as a broadcaster for Reno Aces games in 2019 before he was hired to serve as Arizona's graduate manager for the 2020 season, which was cut short due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Bridgman hit .445 as a senior at Damonte Ranch High and stole a school-record 42 bases. He earned first-team Reno Gazette Journal All-North, first-team All-Conference Division I Northern-Sierra and second-team All-American honors at second base.
Bridgman is a 2017 graduate of Nevada with a degree in economics.
Head Student Manager
MADDIE GROSSMANN Student Manager (Head) Second Year
Maddie Grossmann is a third-year mathematics major at Cal Poly and plans to minor in photography.
Grossmann is a graduate of Rocklin High School northeast of Sacramento, Calif. She was a member of the cheerleading and stunt team all four years at Rocklin and was a tri-season athlete as well as a scholar-athlete.
Grossmann decided to become a student manager of the Mustang baseball team because "growing up, I went to all of my brother's baseball games and this felt like a good way to stay connected to a sport that I love."
Maddie's parents are Michael and Caroline Grossmann and her brother's name is Duncan.
Student Managers
Maddie Grossmann Kenyon Mason-Perez Tyler Bradley Ethan Moore Erich Fenczik-Warnock Noah Scott Sofia Alcazar Jack Dwyer Matt Juarez Spencer Stone Andrew Harlow Michael Moschitto Ben Mangelsdorf Jeremy Whorton
Cal Poly Baseball Athletic Trainer
NEAL Mc IVOR Athletic Trainer Sixth Year
A 2013 graduate of Point Loma Nazarene in San Diego, Neal Mc Ivor was hired in the summer of 2015 as an athletic trainer, responsible primarily for baseball. He also assists with the women’s volleyball team.
Mc Ivor served as a graduate assistant athletic trainer at San Jose State from 2013-15, primarily working with baseball, softball and men's and women's soccer. He also was a parttime teaching assistant in the kinesiology department at San Jose State.
He also worked for the Dave Nakama Baseball Academy in the summer of 2014 and for the San Jose State Soccer ID Camps in August 2013.
While working toward his bachelor's degree in athletic training at Point Loma Nazarene, Mc Ivor gained experience in athletic training from August 2009 through May 2013, working with the baseball and men's and women's soccer programs.
Mc Ivor, who obtained his National Athletic Trainers' Association certicifation in 2013 and is an American Red Cross Professional Rescuer, is a member of the California Athletic Trainers Association as well as the National Athletic Trainers Association.
