Jon Mueller (baseball)
Jon Paul Mueller (born January 26, 1970) is an American college baseball coach who has been the head coach of Albany since the start of the 2000 season. Mueller, who was named the 2004 America East Coach of the Year, led the Great Danes to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 2007.[1]
_(cropped).jpg.webp) Mueller with Albany in 2010 | |
| Current position | |
|---|---|
| Title | Head coach |
| Team | Albany |
| Conference | America East |
| Record | 425–576–3 |
| Biographical details | |
| Born | January 26, 1970 Stillwater, New York |
| Alma mater | Eckerd '92 (B.A.) Saint Rose (M.A.) |
| Playing career | |
| Basketball | |
| 1989–1991 | Eckerd |
| Baseball | |
| 1989–1992 | Eckerd |
| 1994 | Marshall Mallards |
| 1995 | Will County Claws |
| 1995–1996 | Adirondack Lumberjacks |
| 1997–2000 | Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs |
| Coaching career (HC unless noted) | |
| 1993–1994 | Saint Rose (asst.) |
| 1999 | Albany (asst.) |
| 2000–present | Albany |
| Head coaching record | |
| Tournaments | NCAA: 0–2 America East: 15–22 |
| Accomplishments and honors | |
| Championships | |
| America East Tournament: 2007 | |
| Awards | |
| America East Coach of the Year: 2004, 2019 | |
Playing career
Mueller attended Stillwater High School in upstate New York, where he played baseball and basketball. Mueller won a state basketball championship in his senior season, 1988. He was offered a basketball scholarship at Siena, but chose instead to attend Eckerd. He played both basketball and baseball at the Florida college as a freshman and sophomore but focused exclusively on baseball as a junior and senior. He graduated in 1992.[1][2]
After getting his master's degree from Saint Rose in 1994, Mueller began a seven-year professional baseball career spent entirely in independent leagues. From 1994 to 1995, he played for the Marshall Mallards and Will County Claws in the short-lived North Central League. Partway through the 1995 season, he returned to upstate New York, where he played for the Adirondack Lumberjacks from 1995 to 1996 and the Albany-Colonie Diamond Dogs from 1997 to 2000. Primarily a first baseman and an outfielder, Mueller had a career .286 batting average and hit 76 home runs.[1][2][3]
Coaching career
Saint Rose
Mueller's first coaching job came with Saint Rose from 1993 to 1994, where he worked as an assistant while getting his master's degree.[1]
Albany
In 1999, Mueller worked as a volunteer assistant at Albany under head coach Doug O'Brey. In the program's last season in Division II, the Great Danes went 21–21 and reached the ECAC Tournament final.[4][5]
Mueller was hired as Albany's head coach the following season, the Great Danes' first in Division I. Playing as an independent, they went 19–24. After the season, he played his last season of professional baseball. Albany joined the America East Conference for the 2002 season. In 2004, the team went 37–14 and tied for second in conference. It appeared in its first America East Tournament and Mueller was named the conference's Coach of the Year.
Mueller led the program to its first NCAA Tournament in 2007. After a 26–27 (13–11 America East) regular season, the Great Danes received the third seed in the 2007 America East Tournament. There, they defeated Stony Brook in the opener and Binghamton twice to win the championship and the conference's automatic bid to the 2007 NCAA Tournament. At the Fayetteville Regional, the team went 0–2, losing 9–0 to host Arkansas and 21–11 to second-seeded Creighton.[6][7][8][9]
From 2000 to 2019, eight of Mueller's players have been selected in the Major League Baseball Draft. The highest selection was Stephen Woods in 2016, an 8th-round selection of the San Francisco Giants.[10][11]
Head coaching record
Below is a table of Mueller's yearly records as a collegiate head baseball coach.[4][5][6][12]
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independent – DI (2000) | |||||||||
| 2000 | Albany | 19–24 | |||||||
| New York State Baseball Conference (2001) | |||||||||
| 2001 | Albany | 15–32 | 3–7 | t-5th (6) | |||||
| America East Conference (2002–present) | |||||||||
| 2002 | Albany | 20–30 | 8–14 | t-6th (7) | |||||
| 2003 | Albany | 20–32 | 10–14 | 5th (7) | |||||
| 2004 | Albany | 37–14 | 14–7 | t-2nd (8) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2005 | Albany | 20–19 | 10–11 | t-5th (8) | |||||
| 2006 | Albany | 20–32 | 12–10 | 4th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2007 | Albany | 29–29 | 13–11 | 3rd (7) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2008 | Albany | 17–37–1 | 10–14 | 6th (7) | |||||
| 2009 | Albany | 26–31–1 | 15–9 | 2nd (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2010 | Albany | 13–40 | 10–14 | 4th (6) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2011 | Albany | 21–31 | 11–11 | 4th (6) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2012 | Albany | 22–32–1 | 16–8 | 2nd (6) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2013 | Albany | 23–25 | 16–14 | 3rd (6) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2014 | Albany | 12–33 | 7–17 | t-6th (7) | |||||
| 2015 | Albany | 14–28 | 7–13 | 6th (7) | |||||
| 2016 | Albany | 23–30 | 9–15 | 5th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2017 | Albany | 26–26 | 10–13 | 4th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2018 | Albany | 20–28 | 9–14 | 6th (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2019 | Albany | 28–23 | 14–9 | 2nd (7) | America East Tournament | ||||
| 2020 | Albany | 7–5 | 0–0 | Season canceled due to COVID-19 | |||||
| Albany: | 432–581–3 | 201–218 | |||||||
| Total: | 432–581–3 | ||||||||
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National champion
Postseason invitational champion
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References
- "Jon Mueller". UAlbanySports.com. Albany Athletics Communications. Archived from the original on May 1, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- Singelais, Mark (June 30, 2009). "UAlbany's Mueller Makes Hall of Fame ... In Hoops". TimesUnion.com. Albany Times-Union. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- Stashenko, Joel (October 17, 2005). "Going, Going, Gone: Nursing Home Approved for Heritage Park Site". BizJournals.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- DePasquale, Brian. "Mueller Named Baseball Coach". Albany.edu. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- "2014 Albany Baseball Media Guide". Albany Sports Information. Archived from the original on June 29, 2014. Retrieved June 29, 2014.
- "2013 America East Conference Baseball Record Book" (PDF). AmericaEast.com. America East Conference. Archived from the original (PDF) on May 17, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
- "Creighton Hammers Albany". Lincoln Journal Star. Associated Press. June 1, 2007. Archived from the original on June 30, 2014. Retrieved June 30, 2014.
- Post, Paul (February 26, 2012). "Men's Baseball: UAlbany Coach Jon Mueller Has the Team Set for New Season". Saratogian.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- Santillo, Andrew (May 20, 2013). "Home-Grown Talent Leads UAlbany Baseball in Postseason". TroyRecord.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- "MLB Amateur Draft Picks Who Came from "Albany"". Baseball-Reference.com. Archived from the original on June 30, 2014. Retrieved June 6, 2019.
- Leipa, Bob (June 9, 2011). "Baseball: Jamesport's Kubiak, Ex-Tomcat Tropeano Drafted by MLB Clubs". RiverheadNewsReview.com. Archived from the original on July 23, 2014. Retrieved July 23, 2014.
- "Annual Conference Standings". BoydsWorld.com. Boyd Nation. Archived from the original on May 17, 2013. Retrieved May 17, 2013.
External links
- Career statistics and player information from Baseball-Reference (Minors)
- Albany Great Danes bio