Gary Rath

Gary Rath
Head coach
gary.rath@mgccc.edu

  • Entering second season as MGCCC head baseball coach (28-16 in 2010)
  • Spent one season as MGCCC assistant baseball coach (2009)
  • Pitched in professional baseball for 15 seasons
  • Career pitching stats: 131-111, 3.87 ERA
  • Made 8 appearances in Major League baseball with the Los Angeles Dodgers (1998) and Minnesota Twins (1999)
  • Pitched 7 seasons in Asia between Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan (61-45 record)
  • Second Round pick of Los Angeles Dodgers (47th overall selection) in June 1994 draft
  • Played college baseball at Mississippi State (1992-94)
  • 1994: First-team All-SEC honors, First-Team All-American (baseball America, ABCA)
  • 1994: Second-team All-American (Collegiate baseball, Mizuno)
  • 1994: Third-Team All-American (NCBWA, Super Smith team)
  • 1994: ABCA All-South Region team
  • 1994: GTE/CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American
  • 1993-94: SEC Academic Honor Roll
  • 2010 : Master’s Degree (Sport Management-U.S. Sports Academy)
  • 2007: Bachelor’s Degree, Troy University (Sport & Fitness Management—Summa cum Laude)
  • 1991: Long Beach High School Graduate