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First Pitch Luncheon

Featuring Baseball Head Coach Steve Rodriguez
Event held on Feb. 2, 2022


About our Speaker

Steve RodriguezSteve Rodriguez

2017 Big 12 Coach of the Year Steve Rodriguez enters his seventh year at Baylor in 2022.

In his six years in Waco he has led the Bears to three NCAA Regionals, a Big 12 Tournament title and a second-place finish in Big 12 play, the highest since 2012. He boasts an overall record of 171-118 record in those six seasons. .

A fifth-round draft pick of the Boston Red Sox in 1992, Rodriguez played professionally for seven seasons with the Red Sox, Detroit Tigers, Los Angeles Dodgers and Montreal Expos organizations. He reached the majors with both Boston and Detroit.

Rodriguez and his wife, Kimberlee, have a daughter, Julia, who is a Baylor graduate and a son, Nolan, who is a sophomore on the Baylor baseball team.


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