Baseball
- Title:
- Assistant Coach
- Email:
- Nate.Yeskie@OregonState.Edu
- Phone:
- 737-0598
Nate Yeskie, the 2017 Assistant Coach of the Year by D1Baseball.com and the Pitching Coach of the Year per Collegiate Baseball, is in his 11th season with the program in 2019, a year after helping the team to its third national championship.
Yeskie has presided over and guided a pitching staff that has been one of the most dominant in the Pac-12 Conference and nationally since he joined the Oregon State program in 2009.
• In 2018, starter Luke Heimlich was named the National Pitcher of the Year and Kevin Abel was selected as the Freshman of the Year. Heimlich led the nation with 16 wins and was second with 159 strikeouts. Abel went 8-1 with a 2.88 ERA and became the first pitcher to ever win four games at the College World Series.
• As a team, the Beavers posted a 3.27 ERA in 2018, good for 12th nationally, and 596 strikeouts, which set a single-season record at Orgeon State. The staff posted eight shutouts, which led the Pac-12 and third nationally.
• Oregon State set a school-record with a 1.93 earned run average in 2017, which also led the nation. The Beavers were also tops nationally in shutouts (14), hits per nine innings (6.27) and WHIP (0.98).
• Nine different pitchers have been named All-Americans during his tenure, including eight since the 2013 season. Most recently, in 2018, Heimlich, Bryce Fehmel and Jake Mulholland were all named All-Americans by at least one publication.
• Oregon State pitchers have been named Freshman All-Americans 10 times, including Mulholland and Brandon Eisert in 2017.
• The Beavers have tossed 85 shutouts since 2009, an average of better than eight per season.Â
• He was named to the nation’s top pitching coach by Collegiate Baseball after the 2013 season. His staff posted a 2.28 ERA and 12 shutouts in helping the Beavers to a school-record 52 wins and a berth in the College World Series.
• Oregon State’s pitchers have been drafted a total of 28 times during his tenure, with 16 coming in the top nine rounds.Â
• Five of those drafted, Matt Boyd, Josh Osich, Jace Fry, Andrew Moore and Sam Gaviglio have pitched at the Major League level.
• Oregon State has appeared in the postseason in nine of his 10 seasons as pitching coach.Â
• In 2014, Jace Fry threw a no-hitter for the Beavers, one of three under Yeskie. Most recently, in 2015, Drew Rasmussen threw the first perfect game in Oregon State’s history, defeating Washington State. In 2010, Osich out-dueled fellow future Major Leaguer Trevor Bauer in a no-hitter at UCLA.
• Oregon State shut out UCLA to end the 2016 season, the first time in school history the Beavers shut out the same team in three consecutive games.
• Four pitchers have pitched for Team USA during his tenure: Moore, Rasmussen, Boyd and Dan Child.
Yeskie served as the pitching coach at his alma mater, UNLV, from 2005 to 2007. During his tenure with the Runnin’ Rebels, Yeskie mentored eight players who earned either an All-Conference or All-Tournament Team selection.
Prior to returning to UNLV as a coach, Yeskie spent five seasons in the Minnesota Twins Minor League system, reaching as high as Double-A New Britain. He finished with a 27-24 record and 4.91 earned run average over the five seasons. Yeskie went 11-7 with Fort Wayne of the Midwest League in 1997, recording 111 strikeouts in 165 1/3 innings of work. In 2000, his last season, the La Crosse, Wis., native went 4-1 in 21 appearances.
During his time in professional baseball, Yeskie worked with MLB veterans Bert Blyleven, Mel Stottlemyre, Jr., and former pitching coach Billy Connors, who once held the position of Director of Player Personnel with the New York Yankees.Â
Yeskie came to the Twins organization after being drafted in the ninth round of the 1996 Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft. Minnesota selected the right-hander after he finished his UNLV career with a 22-12 mark, including 16 complete games.
A three-year letterwinner, his 147 strikeouts in 1995 still stand as UNLV’s single-season record. The mark was also fifth-best nationally that season, and coupled with his nine complete games – which led the Big West Conference – earned him First-Team All-Big West and First-Team All-Region honors.
Yeskie married the former Brittney Belshe, a former Oregon State volleyball player, in January 2012. The couple resides in Corvallis, and have a daughter, AJ.
Pitching Honors Under Yeskie
All-Pac-10/12
2009: Sam Gaviglio (HM), Kevin Rhoderick (HM), Tyler Waldron (HM)
2010: Matt Boyd (HM), Greg Peavey (HM), Kevin Rhoderick (HM)
2011: Sam Gaviglio, Tony Bryant, Josh Osich (HM)
2012: Dan Child (HM), Jace Fry (HM), Ben Wetzler (HM)
2013: Matt Boyd, Andrew Moore (Pac-12 FOY), Ben Wetzler, Scott Schultz (HM)
2014: Jace Fry (Pac-12 POY), Ben Wetzler, Scott Schultz (HM)
2015: Andrew Moore, Drew Rasmussen
2016: Bryce Fehmel (HM)
2017: Luke Heimlich (Pitcher of Year), Jake Thompson, Brandon Eisert (HM), Jake Mulholland (HM)
2018: Luke Heimlich (Pitcher of Year), Bryce Fehmel, Jake Mulholland (HM)
All-America
2009: Sam Gaviglio (Freshman)
2010: Matt Boyd (Freshman)
2011: Sam Gaviglio
2012: Jace Fry (Freshman)
2013: Andrew Moore (Freshman & Overall), Matt Boyd
2014: Jace Fry, Ben Wetzler
2015: Andrew Moore, Drew Rasmussen (Freshman), Mitch Hickey (Freshman)
2016: Bryce Fehmel (Freshman & Overall)
2017: Luke Heimlich, Jake Thompson, Jake Mulholland (Freshman & Overall), Brandon Eisert (Freshman)
2018: Luke Heimlich, Bryce Fehmel, Jake Mulholland, Kevin Abel (Freshman of the Year)
