Another baseball hire

[jedburks]

Nebraska has hired their pitching coach. It is former pitching coach at UC-Irvine, Ted Silva.

This is one hire on the entire baseball coaching staff that I like.

 

[sandhill_husker]

Silva Named Pitching Coach at Nebraska - Huskers.com - Nebraska Athletics Official Web Site

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

Great hire!

 

[iruletheskool]

Yes.

 

[Jack_John_Mark]

(This is old, but gives you an idea)

Ted Silva enters his third season as a member of the UC Irvine staff. During his two seasons as the program's pitching coach, Silva watched four pitchers (Christian Bergman, Daniel Bibona, Scott Gorgen, Eric Pettis) on his staff haul away a combined 17 All-America accolades. Bibona and Gorgen were voted the Big West Pitcher of the Year consecutive seasons, giving UCI its first two honorees on the conference's elite list.

Last season under Silva's tutelage, the pitching staff tied the program-high with 20 saves and in 2008 he guided the Anteaters to the third-best ERA in the country at 3.27, also the program's lowest since 1974. That same year UCI's arms set a record in strikeouts with 503, becoming the only Anteater staff to reach the 500 mark in a season.

Prior to joining the UCI staff, Silva spent the 2007 season at Fresno State and helped the Bulldogs to a 38-29 mark and an NCAA regional berth in San Diego. The Bulldog pitching staff posted the second-lowest ERA in the WAC last season at 4.54 with three Bulldogs ranked in the top 10 individually.

Silva opened his coaching career as a volunteer assistant at Cal State Fullerton (2005-06), helping the Titan staff log a national-best 2.73 ERA, the only team in the country under 3.00 in 2006.

 

[jedburks]

Bad thing is that he won't be here long.

 

[corn train]

Those are some impressive stats for a pitching coaches resume, MLB teams wouldn't kick him out of bed for eating crackers with those ERA averages

 

[HuskerFan8807]

wow great hire! at least something right has happened for the baseball program

 

[sandhill_husker]

Listened to audio of Silva and Erstad on Sports Nightly last night. Silva interview is 1:32 in. Erstad talks about Bolt and Silva at 2:31.

Sports Nightly

 

[sandhill_husker]

Erstad made it clear those two guys were at the top of his list from the start, so he got the guys he wanted. Full speed ahead!