Nick Derba

{{short description|American baseball coach and catcher (born 1985)}}

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| current_title = Head coach

| current_team = Maine

| current_conference = America East

| current_record = {{winning percentage|172|237|record=y}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1985|9|9}}

| birth_place = College Point, New York, U.S.

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| player_years1 = 2004–2007

| player_team1 = Manhattan

| player_years2 = 2007

| player_team2 = Batavia Muckdogs

| player_years3 = 2007

| player_team3 = Swing of the Quad Cities

| player_years4 = 2008–2010

| player_team4 = Palm Beach Cardinals

| player_years5 = 2009–2012

| player_team5 = Springfield Cardinals

| player_years6 = 2010–2012

| player_team6 = Memphis Redbirds

| player_positions = Catcher

| coach_years1 = 2010–2011

| coach_team1 = NJIT (Asst.)

| coach_years2 = 2013

| coach_team2 = Manhattan (Asst.)

| coach_years3 = 2014–2016

| coach_team3 = Maine (Asst.)

| coach_years4 = 2017–present

| coach_team4 = Maine

| overall_record = {{winning percentage|172|237|record=y}}

| tournament_record = NCAA: 0–2

| championships = *2× America East regular season (2022, 2023)

America East tournament (2023)

| awards = *2× America East Coach of the Year (2022, 2023)

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Nicholas Joseph Derba (born November 9, 1985) is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Maine Black Bears.{{cite web |url=https://www.pressherald.com/2016/12/17/umaine-names-interim-baseball-coach/ |title=UMaine names interim baseball coach |date=December 17, 2016 |publisher=Portland Press Herald |work=www.pressherald.com |accessdate=June 11, 2018}} He played college baseball at Manhattan from 2004 to 2007, before playing professionally from 2007 to 2012.

Playing career

Derba played college baseball at Manhattan College. While at Manhattan, he played three years (2004-2006) of collegiate summer baseball for the Chatham A's of the Cape Cod Baseball League,{{cite news | last =Adler | first =Eric | title = Bronx Bulls: RBI Machine Matt Rizzotti and Defensive Dynamo Nick Derba are a Pair of Tough-As-Nails New Yorkers, Who Just Happen to Have a Sentimental Side | pages=65, 67| newspaper = The Cape Cod Chronicle | location=Chatham, MA | date=August 3, 2006 | url=https://eldredgelibrary.wssites.com/Document?db=ELDREDGELIBRARY&query=(select+0+(bytoc+(andf+(eq+YEAR+2006)+(field+WEEK_ISSUED+(anyof+August+%6003))+(field+PAGE_NO+(anyof+%6034))))) }}{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/college/summer/stats.asp?Y=2004&T=Chatham%20As |title=2004 Chatham As |publisher=thebaseballcube.com |accessdate=September 23, 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/college/summer/stats.asp?Y=2005&T=Chatham%20As&View= |title=2005 Chatham As |publisher=thebaseballcube.com |accessdate=September 23, 2021}}{{cite web|url=http://www.thebaseballcube.com/college/summer/stats.asp?Y=2006&T=chatham_as |title=2006 Chatham As |publisher=thebaseballcube.com |accessdate=September 23, 2021}} and returned to the A's as hitting and catchers coach in 2013.{{cite web|author=Chris Jones |url=http://www.chathamanglers.com/index.cfm?base=28&articleID=652 |title=Nick Derba, Former Chatham Player, Returns as Coach |publisher=chathamanglers.com |date=June 20, 2013 |accessdate=September 25, 2019}} He was selected by the St. Louis Cardinals in the 30th round of the 2007 MLB Draft.