Position: Pitching Coach
Scott Brown enters his fourth season with the St. John's
University baseball program. In three seasons in the position,
Brown has overseen remarkable progress in the St. John's pitching
staff, a group that has had five players sign professional
contracts in the last two seasons.
In the team's historic 2005 season, the Red Storm staff had a
combined 3.38 ERA, led the BIG EAST and set a school record with
499 strikeouts and had four pitchers go on to sign professional
contracts. Craig Hansen (first round), Anthony Varvaro (12th) and
Anthony Sullivan (19th) were all selected in the 2005 amateur
draft, and Jim Wladyka signed as a free agent and went on to be
named the New Kingston Mets Pitcher of the Year.
Where the staff would go and how an inexperienced group would
fill the voids left by the record-setting 2005 staff were major
question marks entering the 2006 season. But, despite having over
70 percent of the team's innings pitched by underclassmen, Brown
led the 2006 staff to the nation's fifth-lowest earned run average
(3.21) and a second straight 40-win season. Junior Matt Tosoni came
back after missing the 2005 season and not only claimed a spot in
the BIG EAST rotation, but became a second team all-conference
selection, and freshman left-hander Scott Barnes came on strong
late to finish 26th in the nation in strikeouts.
“Scott is a young and knowledgeable coach and he has been a
tremendous addition to our staff,” Blankmeyer said. “He’s gotten a
great deal of experience in his years at Cortland and our
student-athletes learned a great deal from him in his three seasons
here.”
During the 2004 season, his first at St. John’s, Brown guided a Red
Storm pitching staff that posted a 37-23 overall record and ranked
second in the BIG EAST with a combined earned run average of 3.86,
nearly a run-and-a-half better than the 2003 season. Under
his guidance, Anthony Varvaro posted an 8-3 record and earned
second-team All-BIG EAST honors, while Craig Hansen set a school
record with 10 saves.
From 2002-04, Brown served as the head coach of the Sanford
Mainers of the New England Collegiate Baseball League, one of the
top summer wood-bat leagues in the nation. The Mainers won the
NECBL Championship in 2004 and Brown was named the league’s Manager
of the Year.
Brown came to St. John’s from the State University of New York
at Cortland, where he served for four years as an assistant coach.
Brown helped guide the SUNY-Cortland program to a 35-11 record in
2003, including a 15-1 record in the State University of New York
Athletic Conference. The Red Dragons won their seventh-straight
league title, and 12th in the last 13 years, and advanced to the
NCAA Tournament for the 11th-straight season. Brown guided
the pitchers to a school-record 333 strikeouts during the 2003
season and thy finished the season ranked ninth in the country with
a 2.93 team earned run average.
In the summer of 2000 and 2001, Brown was also the head coach
for the Cortland Apples of the New York Collegiate Baseball League.
He led to the team to the league’s best regular season mark in 2000
with a 25-15 mark.
He was hired as an assistant coach after a stellar three-year
pitching career at Cortland. During his collegiate career, he
earned second-team All-America honors in 1999 after posting a 9-1
record and a 2.03 earned run average. His 19 victories from 1997-99
are tied for the fifth-most on the Cortland career charts.
Brown spent his freshman season pitching at Division III
national power Montclair (N.J.) State.