Greg Keagle, a former major league pitcher, returns for his 14th season as an assistant coach for the Tigers in 2021, where he will assist the pitchers.
Under Keagle's tutelage, the RIT pitching staff has become one of the best in all of Division III. In 2015, three pitchers earned All-Liberty League honors, while the staff as a whole recorded a 3.88 earned run average, walked just 98 batters in 308 2/3 innings, while holding opposing batters to a .256 average. In 2016, RIT pitchers set a program record by striking out 230 batters.
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The RIT pitching staff developed a level of dominance never before achieved at the university in its record-breaking 2017 season. RIT’s pitching staff set single-season school marks for most strikeouts (319), shutouts (4), strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.22), and lowest WHIP (1.19). The pitching staff finished sixth nationally in WHIP, seventh in strikeout-to-walk ratio, 13th with a 3.19 earned run average and 15th, allowing just 8.29 hits per nine innings. Brian Reed was named the Liberty League and d3Baseball.com New York Region Pitcher of the Year, while Brett Bouchard, Stevie Branche, Jameson Moran and Daniel Zeglen all received league or regional accolades.
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The Tigers won a school-record 33 games, won its first Liberty League Championship and advanced to the NCAA Division III Baseball Championship for the first time in 2017. RIT’s coaching staff was honored as 2017 Liberty League Baseball Coaching Staff of the Year.
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A native of Corning, N.Y., Keagle pitched for Monroe Community College in the early 1990s. Keagle spent 11 seasons in professional baseball. He was a sixth round draft pick of the San Diego Padres in 1993, and in 1996, he made his major league debut with the Detroit Tigers. He went on to pitch three seasons in the majors, appearing in 46 games and making 23 starts.
Keagle currently resides in Pittsford with his wife, Danielle, and their three children, Jack, Olivia, and Luke.
