Timothy Carter Corbin (born August 5, 1961) is the head baseball coach of the

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team. Since becoming coach at Vanderbilt in 2003, Corbin has transformed the Commodores from a perennial

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doormat to an elite program. When he arrived in 2003, Vanderbilt had only had six winning seasons in SEC play since baseball became a scholarship sport in 1968, and had only been to three NCAA Tournaments in school history. Since then, they have been to all but one NCAA Tournament since 2004. On June 25,

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, he led the team to Vanderbilt's first ever men's NCAA Championship in any sport, winning the

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. In his first ten years, Corbin amassed a 411-217 record with the

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. His 2013 Commodores team set an SEC record for wins, going 26-3 in conference. On May 2, 2014, Corbin won his 500th game at Vanderbilt in an 8-3 victory over

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. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Corbin served as an assistant coach at Clemson for nine years and as head coach at

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for six years. At Clemson, he worked under head coach

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, on the same staff with future head coaches and SEC rivals Kevin O'Sullivan and John Pawlowski. He coached three ACC Players of the Year and helped Clemson reach the College World Series four times (1995, 1996, 2000, and 2002). At Presbyterian, Corbin helped direct a program that was dormant for several years. He compiled a 106-138 record with the Blue Hose, which was transitioning from NAIA to

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. The Blue Hose made three consecutive appearances in the

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playoffs (1991–93), and Corbin earned South Atlantic Coach of the Year honors in 1990. In 2000, he was named the ABCA/''Baseball America'' Assistant Coach of the Year. Corbin also served as manager for the

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National Team during the summer of 2006. He led the team to a 28-2-1 record that culminated with a gold medal finish at the FISU (

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) World University Championship in

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. The .919 winning percentage was the highest ever for a national team and it garnered special recognition by the

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in September. Additionally, Corbin managed three of his Commodore players on this team: David Price, Pedro Alvarez, and

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Head coaching record

First-round MLB draft picks coached

At Vanderbilt, Corbin has coached nineteen players selected in the first round of the

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, including two selected first overall, and one (

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) selected in the first round in two different drafts. *

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(6th overall,

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, 2004 MLB Draft) * David Price (1st overall,

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) *

(8th overall,

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) * Pedro Alvarez (2nd overall,

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) *

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(41st overall,

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) * Mike Minor (7th overall,

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, 2009 MLB Draft) *

Sonny Gray Sonny Douglas Gray (born November 7, 1989) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He previously played for the Oakland Athletics, New York Yankees, and Cincinnati Reds. Gray attended ...

(18th overall,

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) *

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(59th overall,

) *

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(14th overall,

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) *

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(1st overall,

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) *

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(8th overall,

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) *

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(24th overall,

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) *

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(5th overall,

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) *

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(23rd overall,

) *

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(4th overall,

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, 2019 MLB Draft) *

Austin Martin Christopher Austin Martin (born March 23, 1999) is an American professional baseball shortstop for the Minnesota Twins of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball for the Vanderbilt Commodores. Amateur career Martin attended Trin ...

(5th overall,

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, 2020 MLB Draft) *

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(2nd overall, Texas Rangers, 2021 MLB Draft) *

(10th overall,

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, 2021 MLB Draft; & 3rd overall, Texas Rangers, 2022 MLB Draft) *Spencer Jones, (25th overall,

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, 2022 MLB Draft)

Awards and honors

*2007 CollegeBaseballInsider.com National Coach of the Year *2007 SEC Coach of the Year * 2013 SEC Coach of the Year *2014 Baseball America College Coach of the Year *2014 Collegiate Baseball National Coach of the Year *2014 Perfect Game Coach of the Year * 2019 SEC Coach of the Year

References

External links

Vanderbilt profile
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Head coaching record

First-round MLB draft picks coached

Awards and honors

See also

References

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