Pat Bailey - Baseball Coach - Oregon State University Athletics

Pat Bailey

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
Pat.Bailey@oregonstate.edu
Phone:
737-0598

Pat Bailey will be in his 13th season on the Oregon State staff in 2020.

In 2019, Bailey guided the Beavers to a 36-20-1 regular season overall record and 21-8 mark in Pac-12 Conference play. Oregon State finished third in the conference, just a game back of second place.

In 12 years with the Beavers, Bailey has helped the program to the 2018 national championship, three trips to Omaha and 2019 is his 10th overall postseason appearances.

He joined the program as an assistant coach in 2008 and was promoted to associate head coach in October 2013.
Oregon State has posted a winning record in each of Bailey’s 12 seasons, and in the last three seasons alone, has posted a 146-36-2 overall record (.799).

He is a two-time national championship coach after guiding George Fox to an NCAA Division III title in 2004.
Bailey coached the Bruins for 12 seasons, amassing a 353-158 record, winning six conference championships. He was named the National Coach of the Year in 2004 and was selected as the Northwest Conference’s Coach of the Year eight times.

• Oregon State is 496-205-3 (.707) in Bailey’s 12 seasons in Corvallis. Overall, he has coached at the collegiate level for 23 seasons, tallying a 813-345-2 (.702) record.
• The Beavers have recorded six 40-win seasons during Bailey’s tenure. Oregon State won a school-record 56 games in 2017, and followed that up with a 55-victory year in 2018 en route to the national title.
• Oregon State has posted winning percentages of at least .600 in all but two of his seasons. Additionally, the Beavers have finished with a winning percentage of at least .800 three times - 2013 (.800), 2017 (.903) and 2018 (.816).
• In 2012, Bailey was a recipient of the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Ethics in Coaching Award. The award is given annually to one or two coaches who “represent the highest standards in sportsmanship, integrity, character and ethics.”

• Bailey has helped oversee the team’s academic efforts.
• In addition to the on field success, the Beavers have been recognized for their work in the classroom, both nationally and within the Pac-12 Conference.
• Oregon State is one of just 15 teams nationally - and the only club from the Pac-12 to earn the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) Academic Excellence Award in the three years - 2016, 2017, 2018 - it has been in existence.
• The Beavers have led the Pac-12 in each of the last three years with 16 student-athletes named Pac-12 Conference All-Academic each year. Six players have been named first-team over that two-year stretch.
• Jack Anderson became the fourth player in school history to earn first-team all-academic honors in three consecutive seasons. He was also named the 2018 Pac-12 Scholar-Athlete of the Year, following Max Engelbrekt, who was recognized in 2017.
• Jake Thompson, who majored in economics, was named an Academic All-American in 2017, becoming the first Beaver to be recognized since Mitch Canham in 2007.

• The Oregon State offense had arguably its best season in school history in 2018, with Bailey playing a pivotal role in mentoring the team’s hitters. The Beavers batted .321 as a team, set a school-record for doubles (151), home runs (67) and runs scored (518).
• Adley Rutschman became the first Beaver with 100 or more hits, totaling a Pac-12-best 102 in 2018. He also hit .408 on the year, just the sixth player in school history to finish at .400 or better. He ranks third all-time.
• Rutschman also set the Oregon State single-season record with 83 runs batted in.
• Trevor Larnach hit 19 home runs, the second-most ever by a Beaver. He was the first Oregon State player with 14 or more in a season since 1982.

• Bailey has overseen the team’s outfielders since joining the program prior to the 2008 season. During his tenure, three outfielders have been named All-Americans, most recently Trevor Larnach in 2018. Jeff Hendrix earned the recognition in 2015, while Michael Conforto, currently with the New York Mets, became the first Beaver to be named an All-American in three different seasons - 2012, 2013 and 2014.
• At least one outfielder has been named an All-Pac-10 or All-Pac-12 selection in every season but one - 2011 - during Bailey’s tenure. That includes 2014 when Hendrix, Conforto and Dylan Davis were all named First-Team. It was the first time in a decade that a Pac-12 team featured an entire outfield that was named first team.
• Conforto was one of the most successful players in Oregon State history, and became the first player in school history to be named the conference’s Player of the Year in back-to-back seasons - 2013 and 2014. He had also been named the league’s Freshman of the Year in 2012, additionally becoming the first Beaver to ever be named an All-American as a true freshman.
• Conforto was drafted 10th overall in 2014, at the time the highest selection in Oregon State history.
• Nine outfielders have been selected by MLB clubs since 2008, with five coming in the top-10 rounds. Daniel Robertson, who was taken in the 33rd round in 2008, spent four seasons at the Major League level from 2014-17, playing for Texas, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, Seattle and Cleveland.

Bailey came to Oregon State prior to the 2008 season after spending 12 seasons at George Fox, winning a Division III national title with the Bruins in 2004.

Bailey compiled a 353-158 record - he is the winningest coach in school history - and earned National Coach of the Year honors after that 2004 national title. He was an eight-time Northwest Conference Coach of the Year honoree.

During Bailey’s tenure, the Bruins won or shared eight Northwest Conference titles. George Fox advanced to the NCAA tournament six times and to the NAIA playoffs twice before moving to the NCAA.

Prior to his tenure at George Fox, Bailey served as the head coach at West Linn High School from 1985-91 and 1993-95. He moved to West Linn after guiding the Willamette High School program from 1978-84. He went 223-134 (.625) between the two spots.

Bailey also spent one season as an assistant coach at the University of Portland, in 1992.

Bailey earned his business education degree from the University of Idaho in 1978 and his master of education degree in educational administration from Oregon in 1983. Bailey earned two letters in baseball at Idaho and was the team captain.

Bailey graduated in 1974 from Moscow (Idaho) High School, where he played football, basketball and baseball, being named the baseball team’s Most Valuable Player.

Bailey and his wife, Susan, have two children: son Alex, who played baseball for George Fox in 2003, and is married to Lucy; and daughter Ann. His daughter, Ann, is married to Collin Schneider and they have two children, Adlai and Evey. They are the owners of the Tried and True Coffee Shop in Corvallis.