Joe Grassett

Biography

Joe Grassett is in his first season as an assistant coach at UMES, where he primarily works with the pitchers under head coach Danny Acosta. Grassett previously served as an assistant coach with Fairleigh Dickinson University for three seasons. In 2025, he coached star pitcher Ethan Rembish, who had a 2.84 ERA and 32 strikeouts in 25.1 innings. In 2024, Grassett's pitching staff at FDU broke the program record for strikeouts in a season with 498, highlighted by Pat Gardner, Zac Capps, and Vlad Ceverino. In 2023, his pitchers broke the FDU record with 474 strikeouts. Grassett began his coaching career at Souhegan High School in 2022 as the program's varsity pitching coach, where the Sabers posted a staff ERA of 1.86 and struck out 215 batters. Before coaching, Grassett pitched at the University of Hartford from 2017 to 2020, helping lead the Hawks to an America East Regular Season Championship and Conference Tournament Title in 2018. He was a two-time America East Commissioner's Honor Roll selection and graduated with a Psychology degree and 4.0 GPA in May 2020.