Pat Casey (baseball)

{{Infobox college coach

| name =

| image = Pat-Casey.jpg

| alt =

| caption = Casey coaching at George Fox College

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|3|17}}

| birth_place = McMinnville, Oregon, U.S.

| death_date =

| death_place =

| alma_mater = George Fox University

| player_years1 = 1978–1980

| player_team1 = Portland

| player_positions = Outfielder

| coach_years1 = 1988–1994

| coach_team1 = George Fox

| coach_years2 = 1995–2018

| coach_team2 = Oregon State

| overall_record = 1,071–571–7 ({{winpct|1071|572|7}})

| tournament_record =

| championships =

3× College World Series (2006, 2007, 2018)
5× Pac-10/Pac-12 (2005, 2006, 2013, 2014, 2017)

| awards =

Baseball America College Coach of the Year (2006)
NCBWA National Coach of the Year (2017)
Pac-10 Northern Division Coach of the Year (1997)
5× Pac-10/Pac-12 Coach of the Year (2005, 2006, 2011, 2013, 2017)

| coaching_records =

}}

Patrick Michael Casey (born March 17, 1959) is an American college baseball coach who was the head coach for the Oregon State Beavers baseball team from 1995 to 2018. He is best known for winning the 2006 College World Series for the Beavers' first-ever baseball National Championship. The following year, he led the Beavers to a repeat championship in the 2007 College World Series, the first unranked team in history to accomplish this feat. He retired from Oregon State after winning his third national championship in the 2018 College World Series.

Playing career

A three-sport athlete at Newberg High School, Casey attended the University of Portland where he played baseball as well as basketball.{{cite web|url=http://osubeavers.com/coaches.aspx?rc=996&path=baseball|title=Pat Casey|publisher=OSUBeavers.com|access-date=June 13, 2018}} In baseball, he was named to the All-Pac-10 Conference Northern Division first team in 1979 and 1980, and was drafted in the 10th round by the San Diego Padres in the 1980 Major League Baseball draft. He played seven seasons in the minor leagues, first with the Padres organization from 1980 to 1984, then with the Seattle Mariners organization from 1985 to 1986 and finally the Minnesota Twins triple-A affiliate Portland Beavers in 1987.{{cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/player.fcgi?id=casey-002pat|title=Pat Casey|work=baseball-reference.com|access-date=June 13, 2018}}

Coaching career

After his playing career ended, Casey became head baseball coach at George Fox University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1990, also playing basketball for the school while coaching baseball. In seven seasons at George Fox, his baseball team compiled a 171–114–1 record.

In 1995, he was named head coach at Oregon State, where through the 2018 season, he had compiled a 900–458–6 record. Casey focused on recruiting players from the Pacific Northwest.{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2014/05/pat_casey_dared_to_dream_and_n.html|title=Pat Casey dared to dream, and now Oregon State is the class of college baseball|date=30 May 2014|publisher=Oregon Live|access-date=2014-05-30}} He guided the Beavers to three straight 45+ win seasons, including back-to-back Pac-10 championships, six trips to the College World Series, and three national championships. He is the only coach in NCAA history to lead a team to the National Championship after playing in six elimination games, which he accomplished twice (in 2006 and 2018).{{cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2017/04/flashback_oregon_state_basebal.html|title=Oregon Flashback: Oregon State baseball wins the 2007 College World Series|date=8 April 2017|publisher=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-06-29}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2018/06/where_have_we_seen_this_before.html|title=Where have we seen this before? 2018 Oregon State repeats its 2006 College World Series run|date=29 June 2018|publisher=OregonLive.com|access-date=2018-06-29}} After winning the 2006 national championship, the program received its first ever number 1 ranking by all four college baseball polls. He was named the Pac-12 Coach of the year in 2005, 2006, 2011, 2013 and 2017,{{cite web|url=http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/053111aab.html|title=Pat Casey Named Pac-10 Coach Of The Year; Bryant, Gaviglio, Keyes Are First Teamers|publisher=OSUBeavers.com|access-date=2012-02-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130130210329/http://www.osubeavers.com/sports/m-basebl/spec-rel/053111aab.html|archive-date=2013-01-30}}{{cite web|url=http://cliffkirkpatrick.mvourtown.com/2011/05/31/pat-casey-named-pac-10-coach-of-the-year/|title=Pat Casey named Pac-10 Coach of the Year|publisher=Cliff Kirkpatrick|access-date=2012-02-24|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110604054139/http://cliffkirkpatrick.mvourtown.com/2011/05/31/pat-casey-named-pac-10-coach-of-the-year/|archive-date=2011-06-04}}{{cite web|url=http://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2011/05/oregon_states_pac-10_honors_pa.html|title=Oregon State's Pac-10 honors: Pat Casey coach of the year; Sam Gaviglio, Kavin Keyes 1st-team selections|date=31 May 2011|publisher=OregonLive.com|access-date=2012-02-24}} and was named Baseball America Coach of the Year in 2006 and NCBWA Coach of the Year in 2017. In 2010, Casey was named Baseball America's Coach of the Decade for the years 2000–2009. On September 6, 2018, Casey announced his retirement from Oregon State.{{cite web |url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/index.ssf/2018/09/pat_casey_oregon_state_beavers_1.html |title=Pat Casey, Oregon State Beavers baseball coach, announces retirement |author=Joel Odom |date=September 6, 2018 |publisher=Advance Local Media LLC |work=www.oregonlive.com |access-date=September 6, 2018}}

During his career, Notre Dame and Texas offered him the position of head coach, but Casey decided to stay at Oregon State.{{cite web |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/sports/oregonian/john_canzano/index.ssf/2013/05/canzano_pat_casey_learned_work.html |title=Canzano: Pat Casey learned work ethic long before laying groundwork for Beavers' pipeline to Omaha |date=31 May 2013 |access-date=May 30, 2014}}{{cite web|url=https://www.oregonlive.com/beavers/2016/06/pat_casey_says_texas_offered_j.html|title=Pat Casey: Texas offered job, but I turned it down|date=21 June 2016}}

Head coaching record

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|

| name = George Fox Bruins

| startyear = 1988

| conference = Metro Valley Conference

| endyear = 1992

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1988

| name = George Fox

| overall = 15–14

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NAIA District[http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1018&context=athletics_baseball George Fox 1994 Baseball Media Guide], p. 22

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1989

| name = George Fox

| overall = 22–14

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NAIA District

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1990

| name = George Fox

| overall = 24–17

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NAIA District

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1991

| name = George Fox

| overall = 24–21

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NAIA Area

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship =

| season = 1992

| name = George Fox

| overall = 29–18

| conference =

| confstanding =

| postseason = NAIA Area

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|

| name = George Fox Bruins

| startyear = 1993

| conference = Cascade League/Cascade Conference

| endyear = 1994

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1993

| name = George Fox

| overall = 26–16–1

| conference = 14–3

| confstanding = 1st{{Cite web|url=http://www.cascadeconference.org/sports/2008/7/12/071208_ccc_bb_standings.aspx?id=220|title = Past CCC Standings}}

| postseason = NAIA Area

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 1994

| name = George Fox

| overall = 31–13

| conference = 16–2

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NAIA District[http://digitalcommons.georgefox.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1021&context=athletics_baseball George Fox 1995 Baseball Media Guide], p. 23

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = George Fox

| overall = {{winpct|171|113|1|record=y}}

| confrecord =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Subhead|

| name = Oregon State Beavers

| startyear = 1995

| conference = Pacific-10/Pac-12 Conference

| endyear =

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1995

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 25–24–1

| conference = 14–16

| confstanding = 4th {{Small|(North)}}

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1996

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 32–16–1

| conference = 14–10

| confstanding = 2nd {{Small|(North)}}

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1997

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 38–12–1

| conference = 18–6

| confstanding = 2nd {{Small|(North)}}

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1998

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 35–14–1

| conference = 15–9

| confstanding = 2nd {{Small|(North)}}

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 1999

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 19–35

| conference = 7–17

| confstanding = 8th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2000

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 28–27

| conference = 9–15

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2001

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 31–24

| conference = 11–13

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2002

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 31–23

| conference = 10–14

| confstanding = 6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2003

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 25–28

| conference = 7–17

| confstanding = T–8th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2004

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 31–22

| conference = 10–14

| confstanding = T–6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2005

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 46–12

| conference = 19–5

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = College World Series

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| season = 2006

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 50–16

| conference = 16–7

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = College World Series champions

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| season = 2007

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 49–18

| conference = 10–14

| confstanding = T–6th

| postseason = College World Series champions

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2008

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 28–24

| conference = 11–13

| confstanding = T–6th

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2009

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 37–19

| conference = 15–12

| confstanding = T–3rd

| postseason = NCAA Regional

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2010

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 32–23

| conference = 12–15

| confstanding = T–7th

| postseason = NCAA Regional

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2011

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 41–19

| conference = 17–10

| confstanding = T–2nd

| postseason = NCAA Super Regional

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2012

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 40–20

| conference = 18–12

| confstanding = T–4th

| postseason = NCAA Regional

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2013

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 52–13

| conference = 24–6

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = College World Series

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2014

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 45–14

| conference = 23–7

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason = NCAA Regional

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2015

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 39–18–1

| conference = 19–10–1

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = NCAA Regional

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| season = 2016

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 35–19

| conference = 16–14

| confstanding = T-3rd

| postseason =

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{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = conference

| season = 2017

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 56–6

| conference = 27–3

| confstanding = 1st

| postseason =College World Series

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Entry

| championship = national

| season = 2018

| name = Oregon State

| overall = 55–12–1

| conference = 20–9–1

| confstanding = 2nd

| postseason = College World Series champions

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record Subtotal

| name = Oregon State

| overall = {{winpct|900|458|6|record=y}}

| confrecord = {{winpct|362|268|2|record=y}}

}}

{{CBB Yearly Record End

| overall = 1,071–571–7 ({{winpct|1071|571|7}})

}}

Personal life

Casey and his wife Susan have three sons and one daughter. Casey is a Roman Catholic and often attends daily Mass.

Casey's brother, Chris, is the head football coach for George Fox University.{{Cite web |last=Samuels |first=Doug |date=2012-03-02 |title=New coach at George Fox has has[sic] deep ties |url=https://footballscoop.com/archive-news/new-coach-at-george-fox-has-has-deep-ties |access-date=2024-01-30 |website=Footballscoop |language=en}}