Pat Moran enters his second season as the Husson baseball pitching coach in 2017.
Moran directed the Eagle staff in 2016 that helped lead the team to a 23-21 record, their fourth straight 20 win season with a 15-9 mark in NAC play en route to the program’s tenth conference championship title game since the Eagles joined the conference in 2005. The staff, which was No. 1 in the NAC in Walks Allowed Per Nine Innings (2.68), the second lowest BB/9 in program history, and No. 2 in Earned Run Avearge (3.20) and in WHIP (1.36), was led by right-hander Ben Walls. Walls, a second-team all-NAC selection, was 6-1 with a 2.82 ERA, a 1.66 BB/9, a 1.33 WHIP and 31 strikeouts in 54.1 innings.
Prior to joining the Eagle coaching staff, Moran spent three seasons coaching at Hampden Academy from 2012-15.
Moran pitched professionally for four years in the Can-Am League for the Pittsfield Colonials (2010-11) and the Rockland Boulders (2012-13). He made 77 appearances with 68 starts, and went 28-19 with a 3.81 ERA, a 1.32 WHIP, a 2.72 BB/9, a 6.54 SO/9 and a 2.40 strikeout to walk ratio. Moran recorded 329 strikeouts, against just 137 walks, in 453 innings.
Moran was a three-year letterwinner as a pitcher/outfielder for Saint Joseph’s College of Maine from 2008-10, helping the Monks to two GNAC Championships and two NCAA DIII Championship Tournament berths. He posted a 19-8 record with a 3.75 ERA, while recording 183 strikeouts and only issuing 27 walks in 175.1 inning. As a hitter, he batted .346 (106-306) with 78 runs, 21 doubles, 21 homers and 97 RBI.
When he left the Monks program, he was the all-time career leader BB/9 (1.39) and was ranked second in WHIP (1.17), third in wins, fifth in strikeouts, sixth in K/9 (9.39) and eighth in innings pitched. As a hitter, ranked fourth all-time in slugging percentage (.634) and sixth in home runs.
As a senior, Moran earned First Team All-GNAC honors as a utility player and Second Team accolades as a pitcher, while being named to the ECAC Second Team, NEIBA Third Team and was selected to play in the NEIBA Senior All-Star Game at Fenway Park.
As a junior, Moran was tabbed the GNAC Pitcher and Player of the Year and was selected to the All-GNAC First Team as a utility player and the Second Team as a pitcher, while collecting All-NEIBA First Team, D3Baseball.com All-America Honorable Mention and ECAC DIII Baseball Third Team honors, the team’s Most Valuable Player and Saint Joseph’s Athletics Male Athlete of the Year awards.
He spent the 2006 and 2007 seasons at the University of Maine, appearing in 13 games with five starts. Moran posted a 1-3 record with a 8.70 ERA in 30 innings pitched. He was named a UMaine Academic “Rising Star” and to the America East Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll. Moran played for the North Adams Steeplecats of the New England Collegiate Baseball League in the summer of 2006.
Moran earned a Bachelor of Science in Exercise Science in 2010 from Saint Joseph’s (Maine).
A Native of Winterport, Maine, Moran attended Hampden Academy.
