Rutgers baseball will be losing one of its best coaches on staff as pitching coach\/ associate head coach Mike McRae will be leaving the Scarlet Knights to explore opportunities at the pro level, according to D1 Baseball\u2019s Kendall Rogers. D1 Baseball is a website dedicated to tracking all of the happenings across major college baseball, with Rogers being a co-founder of the site. It is still unknown which opportunities in particular McRae will be leaving for, just that he won\u2019t be in a coaching uniform for Rutgers in 2026. Rutgers will now be looking for a pitching coach who can match his teaching abilities.<\/p>\n
McRae is considered one of the top up-and-coming pitchers in college baseball. During his one season with the Knights, McRae helped Rutgers undergo a major facelift at the pitching position, as the team replaced all three starters and the majority of the bullpen. Under his coaching, freshman Landon Mack earned freshman All-American Honors by leading all starters with a 4.03 ERA. In total, Rutgers had an average ERA of 5.72 in 2025.<\/p>\n
His pitchers helped the Knights record their fourth consecutive winning season and an upset win over sixth-seeded Indiana in the Big Ten tournament.<\/p>\n
Before arriving at Rutgers in 2025, McRae earned himself a reputation as a great developer of pitchers. He spent three seasons as the head coach of William and Mary and was an assistant coach for four years at Virginia Commonwealth University. His other head coaching gigs include time spent at Niagara and Canisius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rutgers baseball will be losing one of its best coaches on staff as pitching coach\/ associate head coach…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":502523,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,13731,61747],"class_list":["post-502522","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-rutgers-baseball","tag-rutgers-non-rev-sports"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115824686767036523","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502522","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502522"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502522\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/502523"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502522"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502522"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502522"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}