COACHING STAFF
JAKE VALENTINE
Title: Assistant Head Coach/Recruiting Coordinator
Jake Valentine joins the program as the team's assistant head coach and recruiting coordinator.
Valentine joins the program after one season at Washington State, where he served as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator for the Cougars. In the 2023 season, Valentine helped the Cougars to a 29-23 record -- their best since 2015 and its first ranking since 2010. Five Cougars received All-Pac-12 honors following the season.
Prior to his time in Pullman, Valentine spent seven seasons at the University of Portland. Valentine started as an assistant coach before moving up to hitting coach and recruiting coordinator and spent the 2022 season as associate head coach. With the Pilots, he mentored 28 players to All-West Coast Conference honors, two freshman All-Americans and four MLB draft picks.
Before his seven seasons in Portland, he spent time as an assistant coach at Santa Clara and two seasons at UC Riverside in the same position. Valentine started his coaching career at Stephen F. Austin State, where the Lumberjacks posted a 63-56 record and helped develop Hunter Dozier. Dozier was selected No. 8 overall in the 2013 MLB Draft.
Valentine earned his degree in communications from Hawai'i Pacific University, playing two seasons for the Warriors. He served as a team captain and set the single-season marks in runs scored and walks. He began his college career at Tacoma Community College in Washington.
He and his wife, Andree, have a son, Brooks, and a daughter, Colbie.
BROCK HUNTZINGER
Title: Assistant Coach / Pitchers
Brock Huntzinger enters his second season with the Michigan program as the team's pitching coach.
In his first year with the Wolverines, Huntzinger mentored the Big Ten Pitcher of the Year in Connor O'Halloran and helped Mitch Voit to many accolades as a two-way player.
Huntzinger joined from Boise State where he served in the same role for two years. Before arriving in Boise, Huntzinger spent time as an undergraduate assistant coach at Indiana and Arizona State serving with Head Coach Tracy Smith, after 10 seasons in professional baseball.
Huntzinger was drafted out of high school by the Boston Red Sox in the third round where he made it to Triple-A. He then spent time in the Baltimore Orioles, Oakland A's, and Chicago White Sox' organizations before retiring in 2016.
While coaching at Arizona State, Huntzinger earned his bachelor's degree in organizational leadership.
He and his wife, Cait, are parents to three children, daughters Hudson and Parker, and a son, Wells.
JOSH PHEGLEY
Title: Assistant Coach
Josh Phegley enters his second year with the Michigan program. This season, Phegley will serve as an assistant coach after serving as the director of player development last season.
Prior to joning Michigan, he spent 12 seasons in professional baseball.
Phegley played for Head Coach Tracy Smith and Associate Head Coach Ben Greenspan at Indiana University from 2007 through 2009. In the 2009 MLB Draft, the Chicago White Sox selected Phegley with the 38th overall pick in the supplemental first-round. He made his MLB debut in 2013 with the White Sox, before being traded to the Oakland A's in 2015. Phegley played 387 games in the major leagues with 35 career home runs and caught the 300th No-Hitter in MLB history. Phegley retired in 2020 after playing with the Chicago Cubs.
Phegley is originally from Terre Haute, Indiana. He is married to his wife Jessica, and they have two kids, Stella and Calvin.
TYLER GRAHAM
Title: Director of Hitting Development
Tyler Graham begins his second season with the Michigan Baseball program in a new role as Director of Hitting Development.
Graham joined the Michigan coaching staff in 2022 and servered as a Volunteer Assistant Coach and hitting instructor. Previously Graham was a private MLB hitting instructor for two years.
Prior to that, Graham served as an assistant coach for the Nashville Sounds in 2020. He got his start in coaching at his alma mater, Oregon State, where he was as an undergrad assistant in 2015 and 2016. Graham then spent three more seasons with the Beavers as their director of player development while coaching in summer leagues. With the Oregon State coaching staff, he was a part of the 2017 College World Series and the 2018 National Championship team.
Over the course of nine seasons in professional baseball, Graham accumulated 267 steals from Low A to Major League Baseball where he made his debut with the Arizona Diamondbacks in 2012. He still holds the record for most steals in a season for the Fresno Grizzles with 60. Graham was selected in the 19th round of the 2006 MLB Draft by the San Francisco Giants.
Before playing professionally, Graham played 151 games as an Oregon State Beaver leading them to a national championship in 2005, his senior season along with two Pac-10 Conference titles. Over his career, Graham hit .317 with 39 steals.
Graham is originally a native of Great Falls, Mont.
DANNY STOLPER
Title: Director of Baseball Operations
Daniel Stolper joins the Michigan staff as the Director of Baseball Operations from Arizona State where he worked in the same role.
Stolper worked full-time for the Sun Devils and Coach Smith for five seasons as their director of baseball operations. Stolper was involved in all baseball administration and operations including travel, recruiting, alumni relations, camps and much more.
Before Stolper began as the Director of Operations, he served as student manager from 2015-2017 and the team's bullpen catcher.
Stolper graduated in May 2017 with a degree in Business (Sports and Media Studies) before earning his Master’s degree from Arizona State University in Sports Law and Business in 2019.
HUNTER SATTERTHWAITE
Title: Director of Baseball Data Analytics & Video Systems
Hunter Satterthwaite currently serves as the Director of Baseball Analytics and enters his second season with the team full time.
Satterthwaite started with the Michigan program full-time as the director of baseball operations and data analytics in 2021 after working as a Data Analyst at HF Software Solutions for a year.
He graduated with a bachelor's degree in data science from the University of Michigan and worked with the Michigan Baseball team during his undergraduate years. With Michigan Baseball, Satterthwaite creates player and coach facing reports from Trackman and other data sources via Python, R and SQL. He also leads a team of student analysts to help with these processes.