University of California-Irvine Baseball

The Orloff File 2021, 2025 Big West Coach of the Year 2009 Brooks Wallace Award Winner All-American - 2007, 2008, 2009 2009 Big West Player of the Year Ben Orloff enters his eighth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 13th season with the program for the 2024-25 school year. Orloff assumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins. Under coach Orloff, there have been 33 Anteaters to go pro driving the program total to 176 in UC Irvine history, 146 via the draft and 30 as free agents. The 2025 class featured a program best with four players taken within the first 10 rounds for a second straight season. The Anteaters returned to the postseason stage in 2021 reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in his coaching career, ninth time in Division I, and 14th time in program history. The team was crowned Big West champions winning an all-time conference record 32 games. UCI finished with an overall record of 43-18 reaching the Stanford Regional taking the hosts to the Regional Final. His efforts scored his first Big West Coach of the Year accolade, the fourth for the program and third since joining the Big West. Among the Anteaters superlatives were ABCA All-Ameri

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The Bibona File All-American Two-time Big West Pitcher of the Year Lowe's Senior CLASS Award Winner Daniel Bibona begins his 13th year as the pitching coach for the Anteaters. In 2014 the pitching staff set a school record by posting a program-best 2.76 team ERA, surpassing the previous mark of 2.95 (2011) and becoming just the second Anteater team to log an earned run average below 3.00. The Anteaters also pitched in a program-best 591 innings and posted 27 saves, eclipsing the previous high of 20, recorded in 2009 and 2006. Bibona mentored Andrew Morales and Sam Moore to multiple All-America honors with the former winning the Senior CLASS Award, the same honor that Bibona captured in 2010. Moore, who struggled on the mound in 2013, became the NCAA, Big West and UCI single-season leader in saves with 23 in 2014. Moore was voted the Gregg Olsen Award, honoring the “Breakout Player of the Year”. Bibona played from 2007-10 and was the first Anteater to be named Big West Pitcher of the Year back-to-back seasons. The southpaw collected five All-America honors and also was a two-time all-conference first-team selection. Bibona helped the Anteaters to four NCAA Tournament berths and was voted to two NCAA Regional All-Tournament teams. He was named a USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award semifinalist and holds the career record in strikeouts. Bibona also won the prestigious Lowe's Senior CLASS Award for displaying excellence in four areas; community service, the classroom, character and

Erich Pfohl joined the UC Irvine baseball coaching staff in the summer of 2023 ahead of the 2024 season as the Director of Operations and returns for a secon...

J.T. Bloodworth begins his seventh year as part of the UC Irvine coaching staff. Bloodworth joined the UC Irvine coaching staff in 2019 baseball season as an...

Ryan Johnston joins the Anteater baseball coaching staff hired in August 2022 as the volunteer assistant coach and returns for his third season in 2025. John...