{"id":687152,"date":"2026-05-01T01:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687152\/"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:33:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T01:33:17","slug":"omaha-baseball-coach-evan-porter-to-step-down-following-2026-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/687152\/","title":{"rendered":"Omaha baseball coach Evan Porter to step down following 2026 season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; Omaha baseball will have a new head coach next season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">After 10 years leading the Mavericks, Evan Porter announced he will step down after this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWhile this is a difficult decision, I\u2019m confident it\u2019s time for me to step away and put my family first,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Porter is one of the most decorated players in program history. After being drafted by the Phillies in 2009, he returned to UNO, guiding the program to its only NCAA tournament berth as a Division I program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI look forward to finishing this season strong and remaining a lifelong supporter of UNO, Porter added. \u201dOnce a Maverick, always a Maverick.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OMAHA, Neb. (WOWT) &#8211; Omaha baseball will have a new head coach next season. After 10 years leading&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":687153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2289],"tags":[5,648,86865,24717,1694,2341,3315,25,86866,22333,24718],"class_list":["post-687152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-college-baseball","tag-baseball","tag-college-baseball","tag-evan-porter","tag-first-alert-6","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-baseball","tag-omaha","tag-philadelphia-phillies","tag-resign","tag-uno","tag-wowt"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116496747977339959","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687152","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=687152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/687153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}