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Untitled-11 1 1/25/16 12:05 PM 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE HURRICANESPORTS.COM 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE HURRICANESPORTS.COM TABLE OF CONTENTS MEDIA INFORMATION CANES AND THE MLB 3 Table of Contents 122-123 All-Time #ProCanes By Team 4 University Administration / President Julio Frenk 123-124 MLB Draft Picks & Signees 5 Miami Director of Athletics Blake James 5-8 Athletics Administration MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL HISTORY 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES 125-130 Canes All-Time Lettermen 9-12 Head Coach Jim Morris 131 Attendance History 13 Associate Head Coach Gino DiMare 132-133 University of Miami Sports Hall of Fame 14 Assistant Coach JD Arteaga 134-138 Team Records 15-16 Baseball Coaches & Support Staff 139-142 Individual Leaders - Batting 17 Numerical Roster 143-145 Individual Leaders - Pitching 18-28 Miami Player Profiles MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL HISTORY 29 Baseball in South Florida: A Hurricane Tradition 30-31 Miami Skippers 32 Ron Fraser: “The Wizard of College Baseball” 33 Yearly Records 34-64 All-Time Results 2016 MIAMI BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE 65-66 Series History 67-111 All-Time Series Results • EDITOR: Camron Ghorbi 112 All-Time NCAA Tournament History • LAYOUT & DESIGN: Camron Ghorbi 113-14 College Baseball Hall of Fame Inductees • PHOTOGRAPHY: JC Ridley, Steven Murphy 115-16 National Award Winners • COVER DESIGN: Leo Ramos 117-119 Baseball All-Americans • PRINTING: Thomas Printworks – Coral Gables, Fla. 120-121 Miami Baseball Retired Numbers 3 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE @CANESBASEBALL HURRICANESPORTS.COM DR. JULIO FRENK DR. MARVIN DAWKINS UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT FACULTY REPRESENTATIVE UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL EDWARD WATERS COLLEGE, 1970 AUTÓNOMA DE MÉXICO, 1979 Dr. Julio Frenk, a noted leader in global public health Dr. Marvin Dawkins, a distinguished professor in the and a renowned scholar and academic, was named the Department of Sociology at the University of Miami, is sixth president of the University of Miami in April 2015. in his fourth year as the Faculty Athletics Representative. He assumed his leadership post on August 16, 2015. He was named to the post in April 2012, replacing Clyde Prior to joining the University of Miami, Dr. Frenk McCoy after his 17 years of service in that role. was Dean of the Faculty at the Harvard T.H. Chan In his FAR post, Dawkins is responsible for ensuring School of Public Health since January 2009. While at the academic integrity of students participating in Harvard, he was also the T & G Angelopoulos Professor University athletic programs and helping to oversee of Public Health and International Development, a institutional control of the Department of Athletics. joint appointment with the Harvard Kennedy School of The Faculty Athletics Representative serves as a liaison Government. between the University and the athletic department. This Dr. Frenk served as the Minister of Health of Mexico individual is the University’s voting delegate to the ACC from 2000 to 2006. He pursued an ambitious agenda and represents UM with the NCAA and ACC. to reform the nation’s health system and introduced a Dawkins received his doctorate from Florida State program of comprehensive universal health insurance, and completed his postdoctoral research fellowships at known as Seguro Popular, which expanded access to Howard University and The Johns Hopkins University. health care for tens of millions of uninsured Mexicans. He previously served on the faculties of the University Dr. Frenk was the founding director-general of the of Maryland, Old Dominion University and the National Institute of Public Health in Mexico, one of the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. leading institutions of health education and research His research focuses on issues of race and social in the developing world. In 1998 Dr. Frenk joined equity in such areas as education, career aspirations the World Health Organization (WHO) as executive and mobility, substance abuse prevention, and sports. director in charge of Evidence and Information for He has published widely in these areas, including his Policy, WHO’s first-ever unit explicitly charged with most recent article titled “Race and Pathways to Power developing a scientific foundation for health policy to in the National Football League” (with Jomills H. achieve better outcomes. Braddock and Erica Smith), which appears in American He also served as a senior fellow in the global health Behavioral Scientist (2012). His research on golf includes program of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and as book chapters, scholarly articles, and the book African president of the Carso Health Institute in Mexico City. American Golfers During the Jim Crow Era (Praeger 2000), He is the founding chair of the board of the Institute coauthored with Graham C. Kinloch. Dawkins was for Health Metrics and Evaluation at the University of recently appointed to the United States Golf Association Washington. He also co-chaired the Commission on the Museum Committee and is currently completing a study Education of Health Professionals for the 21st Century, on the media treatment of black golfers from the Jim which published its influential report in the leading Crow era to the present. journal The Lancet in 2010, triggering a large number of follow-up initiatives throughout the world. Dr. Frenk holds a medical degree from the National Autonomous University of Mexico, as well as a master of public health and a joint doctorate in Medical Care Organization and in Sociology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been awarded honorary doctorates from several institutions of higher learning. In September of 2008, Dr. Frenk received the Clinton Global Citizen Award for changing “the way practitioners and policy makers across the world think about health.” He is a member of the U.S. Institute of Medicine, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and National Academy of Medicine of Mexico. In addition to his scholarly works, which include more than 140 articles in academic journals, as well as many books and book chapters, he has written two best- selling novels for youngsters explaining the functions of the human body. 4 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE 2016 MIAMI HURRICANES BASEBALL MEDIA GUIDE @CANESBASEBALL HURRICANESPORTS.COM implemented a comprehensive $17 million facility improvement plan, which included an indoor practice facility and numerous other facility upgrades and BLAKE JAMES renovations. Academically, the program flourished, earning the conference academic cup twice and DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS maintaining better than a 3.0 GPA. MINNESOTA STATE-MANKATO, 1992 Prior to his stint at Maine, he worked in athletic development at Providence College, where he established the “Friars Forever” campaign and the Friar Blake James was named the University of Miami’s Athletic Fund. Director of Athletics on Feb. 8, 2013. Prior to an Interim James is no stranger to South Florida, beginning his AD role that began in Oct. 2012, James served as athletic career with the University of Miami, working in Miami’s Senior Associate AD for Development and ticket sales, corporate sales and athletic development. In Ticket Operations. James oversaw the day-to-day April 1995, he was hired as Miami’s Director of Ticket operations of development, ticket sales and ticket Sales, serving in that capacity until October 1997, when operations. He was also a member of the Hurricanes’ he was named an athletic development officer at the senior staff and provided sport supervision. University of Nebraska. He returned to Miami in 1998 James is currently in the fourth year of his third stint as the Director of Major Gifts and Corporate Sales. at the University of Miami. He graduated from Minnesota State University - Since becoming Athletic Director, Hurricanes’ Mankato with a bachelor’s degree in marketing in 1992 athletics facilities have undergone much-needed and later received his master’s degree from St. Thomas upgrades. He oversaw the opening of the Schwartz University in 1994. Center for Athletic Excellence, which houses the He and his wife, Kelly, have two children: daughter, DiMare Gallery of Champions, full-service academic Haley, and son, Ryan. area, offices, computer lab and the Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Football Locker Room. Other upgrades include: a new FieldTurf practice field for football via the Football Victory Fund, a new $1 million state-of- the-art center-hung scoreboard at BankUnited Center, TONY HERNANDEZ and a new playing surface at Cobb Stadium for both the DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS soccer and track programs. MIAMI, 1997 Under James’ watch, Hurricanes student-athletes have also excelled in the classroom. In the 2014 NCAA APR report, every Miami program registered an APR score of at least 960, with nine teams scoring 990 or Tony Hernandez, joined the University of Miami better out of a possible 1,000 points. Additionally, Athletic Department in 1998 and is currently the Deputy Miami’s 2013 Graduation Success Rate (GSR) was Athletic Director. In his role, he oversees the following 92 percent, which ranked 10th overall among FBS operations and sports: programs, and Miami has exceeded the NCAA average GSR in each of the last nine years. Financial and Business Operations Away from the Coral Gables campus, UM student- Human Resources athletes have steadily increased their role in the Ticket Operations surrounding South Florida community. Every year, Equipment Room Hurricanes student-athletes register thousands of hours Video Services of community service, including trips to elementary Adidas Relations schools, donor drives, hospital visits, and other various Legal/Contractual Matters community outreach programs. In June 2014, James Men’s Basketball and Miami’s external staff created the #RENEWED Baseball Bus, giving Miami staff and student-athletes a chance to Track and Field personally thank football season-ticket holders. James came to UM after spending seven years the Hernandez joined the University of Miami Athletic University of Maine, where he first served as Senior Department in February of 1998 as a Graduate Associate Athletic Director before serving as Director of Assistant in Academic Services.

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