Army West Point Athletics
Baseball
Pinzino, Jamie
Jamie Pinzino
- Title:
- Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach
- Email:
- armybaseball@westpoint.edu
- Phone:
- 5877
Jamie Pinzino, an 18-year coaching veteran, joined the Army staff in July 2017 and was promoted to the Associate Head Coach/Pitching Coach prior to the 2019 season.
Since coming to the Banks of the Hudson, Pinzino has helped Army to back-to-back Patriot League Championships and consecutive 35-win seasons (2018 and 2019). Pinzino also coached Army to an upset of its host and nationally ranked foe N.C. State in the opening game of the NCAA Regionals in 2018. That victory was Army's fourth ever in the regional round and first overall in an opener during the tournament.
During his first two years, Pinzino transformed the Black Knights’ pitching staff into one of the best groups in the Patriot League. He mentored three pitchers to two-time All-Patriot League honors and dropped Army’s ERA significantly.
Starting pitcher Daniel Burggraaf garnered first team praise in 2019, after being named to the second team in 2018. He was also selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-Region second team in 2018. Tyler Giovinco and Cam Opp were named to the second team in back-to-back seasons as both a starting and relief pitcher, respectively.
In 2018, Pinzino coached the pitching staff to a program record 495 strikeouts. The following year (2019), Army nearly matched that with 467 Ks. Pinzino also took the Black Knights’ 5.78 team ERA in 2017 and dropped it down to 4.08 in just one season. That success continued in 2019 as the team ERA stood at 4.15 after another strong year on the mound.
Under Pinzino’s tutelage Giovinco registered eight and nine wins during his junior and senior campaigns to place him tied for eighth and fifth all-time in Academy lore for a single season. Burggraaf was also a key member of Army’s pitching staff registering 83 strikeouts in each of Army’s last two seasons. After being convert into the Black Knights’ top reliever prior to the start of the 2018 season, Opp finished his four-year career with nine saves, all coming during his final two years, to place him tied for sixth in Army’s career charts.
Pinzino also coach Matt Ball during his senior season in 2018 to an impressive 93 strikeouts (team-high) and seven wins.
As a pitching staff, with guidance from Pinzino, Army led the conference in 2018 in saves (16), innings pitched (515.2) and ERA in conference games (2.42). That group finished second in the league in overall ERA, wins, and shutouts as well. The following year in 2019, the Black Knights again found themselves in the top two in the league in innings pitched (520.0 – 1st), ERA (4.15 – 2nd), shutouts (2 – T2nd), earning runs (240 – 2nd fewest), strikeouts (467 – 2nd), and opponent batting average (.247 – 2nd lowest). They once again had a league leading 3.50 ERA in conference games.
Pinzino came to West Point after a one-year stint as the associate head and pitching coach at Virginia Tech. While with the Hokies, his primary roles were to serve as the team's pitching coach and the recruiting coordinator.
During his brief time in Blacksburg, Va., Pinzino helped coach Packy Naughton and Aaron McGarity, who were both picked up in the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, while improving the staff earned run average nearly a full run from the previous season.
Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Oklahoma from 2013-2016. During that span, Pinzino heard 13 of his pitchers' names being called in the MLB Draft, which included a nation-high seven during the 2015 draft.
Pinzino took over a pitching staff that returned just 29 percent of its conference innings in 2014 and helped secure one of the best bullpens in the Big 12 with a collective 3.48 ERA and 2.11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 2015, Sooner pitchers struck out 524 batters, the third-highest total ever amassed by the team in a single season, while earning a 3.39 ERA and a 2.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio as a staff.
Pinzino also has experience as a head coach as he spent time at the helm of the College of William and Mary, Bryant, and Assumption baseball programs. He owns an overall career record of 212-174, while making three regional appearances and being named the conference Coach of the Year three times (2007, 2010, 2013).
Prior to his stint at Oklahoma, Pinzino served as the head coach of the Tribe, where his squad set program records with 39 wins and 17 conference victories in 2013. His team earned the program's first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Raleigh Regional finals. Pinzino was named both the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Co-Coach of the Year and the VaSID Coach of the Year after knocking off No. 21 Mississippi twice in the Raleigh Regional before being knocked out by No. 7 North Carolina State in the Regional Final.
As the pitching coach for the Tribe in 2012, William & Mary's staff ranked 13th nationally in ERA (3.01), ninth in fewest walks (2.3/game), seventh in WHIP (1.17) and sixth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.06).
As the head coach at Bryant (2006-10), he registered a 162-122 record, while transitioning the program from the Division II Northeast-10 to the Division I Northeast Conference, which resulted in an NEC regular season title in 2010 with a 25-7 league record, and the NEC Coach of the Year award. He was named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year in 2007 as he led Bryant to its first of two NCAA Division II Regional Finals. The Bulldogs posted a program-best 43 wins in 2008 as they won the league's regular season title.
Pinzino spent his first collegiate head coaching year at Division II Assumption in 2005. He has also served as an assistant at Northeastern (2011), Tufts (2003-04), Holy Cross (2002), and Pomona-Pitzer (1998). Overall, Pinzino has coached more than 25 pitchers who have been selected in the MLB draft, and three conference pitchers of the year.
A 1998 graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in history, he later earned a master's degree in educational studies during his assistant coaching stint with the Jumbos. He was a four-year letterwinner at Tufts, helping the Jumbos win three ECAC Championships. In 1995, Tufts reached the NCAA Division III Regional as the No. 2 seed. Pinzino was the Tufts Baseball Elias Award recipient in 1997.
He and his wife, Cheryl, Army’s head softball coach, have a son named Henry and reside at West Point.
Since coming to the Banks of the Hudson, Pinzino has helped Army to back-to-back Patriot League Championships and consecutive 35-win seasons (2018 and 2019). Pinzino also coached Army to an upset of its host and nationally ranked foe N.C. State in the opening game of the NCAA Regionals in 2018. That victory was Army's fourth ever in the regional round and first overall in an opener during the tournament.
During his first two years, Pinzino transformed the Black Knights’ pitching staff into one of the best groups in the Patriot League. He mentored three pitchers to two-time All-Patriot League honors and dropped Army’s ERA significantly.
Starting pitcher Daniel Burggraaf garnered first team praise in 2019, after being named to the second team in 2018. He was also selected to the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA)/Rawlings NCAA Div. I All-Region second team in 2018. Tyler Giovinco and Cam Opp were named to the second team in back-to-back seasons as both a starting and relief pitcher, respectively.
In 2018, Pinzino coached the pitching staff to a program record 495 strikeouts. The following year (2019), Army nearly matched that with 467 Ks. Pinzino also took the Black Knights’ 5.78 team ERA in 2017 and dropped it down to 4.08 in just one season. That success continued in 2019 as the team ERA stood at 4.15 after another strong year on the mound.
Under Pinzino’s tutelage Giovinco registered eight and nine wins during his junior and senior campaigns to place him tied for eighth and fifth all-time in Academy lore for a single season. Burggraaf was also a key member of Army’s pitching staff registering 83 strikeouts in each of Army’s last two seasons. After being convert into the Black Knights’ top reliever prior to the start of the 2018 season, Opp finished his four-year career with nine saves, all coming during his final two years, to place him tied for sixth in Army’s career charts.
Pinzino also coach Matt Ball during his senior season in 2018 to an impressive 93 strikeouts (team-high) and seven wins.
As a pitching staff, with guidance from Pinzino, Army led the conference in 2018 in saves (16), innings pitched (515.2) and ERA in conference games (2.42). That group finished second in the league in overall ERA, wins, and shutouts as well. The following year in 2019, the Black Knights again found themselves in the top two in the league in innings pitched (520.0 – 1st), ERA (4.15 – 2nd), shutouts (2 – T2nd), earning runs (240 – 2nd fewest), strikeouts (467 – 2nd), and opponent batting average (.247 – 2nd lowest). They once again had a league leading 3.50 ERA in conference games.
Pinzino came to West Point after a one-year stint as the associate head and pitching coach at Virginia Tech. While with the Hokies, his primary roles were to serve as the team's pitching coach and the recruiting coordinator.
During his brief time in Blacksburg, Va., Pinzino helped coach Packy Naughton and Aaron McGarity, who were both picked up in the 2017 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft, while improving the staff earned run average nearly a full run from the previous season.
Prior to that, he spent three seasons at Oklahoma from 2013-2016. During that span, Pinzino heard 13 of his pitchers' names being called in the MLB Draft, which included a nation-high seven during the 2015 draft.
Pinzino took over a pitching staff that returned just 29 percent of its conference innings in 2014 and helped secure one of the best bullpens in the Big 12 with a collective 3.48 ERA and 2.11 strikeout-to-walk ratio. In 2015, Sooner pitchers struck out 524 batters, the third-highest total ever amassed by the team in a single season, while earning a 3.39 ERA and a 2.5 strikeout-to-walk ratio as a staff.
Pinzino also has experience as a head coach as he spent time at the helm of the College of William and Mary, Bryant, and Assumption baseball programs. He owns an overall career record of 212-174, while making three regional appearances and being named the conference Coach of the Year three times (2007, 2010, 2013).
Prior to his stint at Oklahoma, Pinzino served as the head coach of the Tribe, where his squad set program records with 39 wins and 17 conference victories in 2013. His team earned the program's first ever at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament and advanced to the Raleigh Regional finals. Pinzino was named both the 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Co-Coach of the Year and the VaSID Coach of the Year after knocking off No. 21 Mississippi twice in the Raleigh Regional before being knocked out by No. 7 North Carolina State in the Regional Final.
As the pitching coach for the Tribe in 2012, William & Mary's staff ranked 13th nationally in ERA (3.01), ninth in fewest walks (2.3/game), seventh in WHIP (1.17) and sixth in strikeout-to-walk ratio (3.06).
As the head coach at Bryant (2006-10), he registered a 162-122 record, while transitioning the program from the Division II Northeast-10 to the Division I Northeast Conference, which resulted in an NEC regular season title in 2010 with a 25-7 league record, and the NEC Coach of the Year award. He was named the Northeast-10 Coach of the Year in 2007 as he led Bryant to its first of two NCAA Division II Regional Finals. The Bulldogs posted a program-best 43 wins in 2008 as they won the league's regular season title.
Pinzino spent his first collegiate head coaching year at Division II Assumption in 2005. He has also served as an assistant at Northeastern (2011), Tufts (2003-04), Holy Cross (2002), and Pomona-Pitzer (1998). Overall, Pinzino has coached more than 25 pitchers who have been selected in the MLB draft, and three conference pitchers of the year.
A 1998 graduate of Tufts University with a bachelor's degree in history, he later earned a master's degree in educational studies during his assistant coaching stint with the Jumbos. He was a four-year letterwinner at Tufts, helping the Jumbos win three ECAC Championships. In 1995, Tufts reached the NCAA Division III Regional as the No. 2 seed. Pinzino was the Tufts Baseball Elias Award recipient in 1997.
He and his wife, Cheryl, Army’s head softball coach, have a son named Henry and reside at West Point.
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