Jim Carone

Biography

Jim Carone is set to begin his fifth season as the head baseball coach at McDaniel in 2026. Carone has guided the Green Terror to back-to-back Centennial Conference Baseball Championship appearances in 2024 and 2025, including a win over Gettysburg in the first round of the 2025 tournament for the program's first home playoff win since 2003. In his first season in 2022, Carone guided McDaniel to its first 20-win season in seven years. Carone came to McDaniel after spending 10 seasons as the head coach at Division I Wagner where he led the Seahawks to 207 wins from 2012-21, becoming just the second coach in program history to reach the 200-win plateau. The 2015 and 2018 Northeast Conference (NEC) Coach of the Year, he had five players selected in the Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft since 2013. Prior to Wagner, Carone served four seasons as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Division I Villanova. Carone has had 23 players who have been selected in MLB First-Year Player Draft with four of them reaching the MLB level. He also coached two current MLB pitching coaches. As a player at Division I Monmouth, Carone was named the Northeast Conference Pitcher of the Year and to the All-Northeast Conference First Team as a junior in 2002 when he set the program record for wins in a season with a 10-3 record and 2.21 ERA in 97.2 innings.

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