Tim Jamieson - Baseball Coach - Southern Illinois University Athletics

Tim Jamieson

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Pitching Coach

2022 was Tim Jamieson's 3rd season as SIU's pitching coach. The Salukis, who were 44-16, 16-5, won the Missouri Valley Conference regular season title outright thanks in part to a pitching staff that led the MVC in wins, innings pitched and ERA (4.89). The Salukis were also second in the MVC in strikeouts and second in saves. Southern's 478 strikeouts were the second most in one season in school history.

Hired in January 2020, Jamieson's SIU staffs have posted a combined 3-year team ERA of 4.63 enroute to a 96-42, 31-18 record.

SIU was 40-20 in 2021, the most wins for the program in 31 years, and 12-6 in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

Overlapping the 2020 and 2021 seasons, SIU won 19-straight games, the longest winning streak at SIU since 1974, and SIU's 14-0 start in 2021 was the best in program history.

SIU set the school record for strikeouts in one season, 494, in 2021. That year, the Salukis' 4.62 ERA was good for second in the MVC.

SIU finished third in the MVC in ERA in the pandemic-shortened 2020 season (3.62).

Jamieson's staffs led the MVC in shutouts in each of his first three seasons.

In 2022, RH Matthew Steidl earned All Missouri Valley Conference first team honors. He was 7-4 with a 3.45 ERA. Steidl added 6 saves and struck out 91 in 75.2 IP.

In 2021, RH Brad Harrison earned All-MVC First Team honors and was also selected to the All-District team after finishing the season with a perfect 9-0 record with a 3.54 ERA and 98 strikeouts in 81.1 innings.

Jamieson won 698 games in 22 seasons and advanced to 9 NCAA Tournaments as Missouri's head coach from 1995-2016. He also was a Tigers' assistant coach from 1989-1994. Jamieson's first coaching job was an assistant's job at his alma mater, New Orleans, from 1983-88.

Jamieson developed some of the nation's best pitchers during his tenure at Missouri, notably future Hall of Famer Max Scherzer. In all, he had 75 players drafted, including four first rounders, and 14 of his players made the major leagues.

Jamieson was a two-time Big 12 Conference Coach of the Year and guided eight players to All-America honors and 10 players to freshman All-America honors. He was among the nation's best at developing pitching; 35 pitchers were selected in the MLB Draft, including 14 in the top-10 rounds. Seven pitchers who played for Jamieson at Missouri made the major leagues.

JAMIESON DEVELOPS MLB PITCHING

Max Scherzer was the Big 12 Pitcher of the Year in 2005 and has won three Cy Young Awards in his MLB career.
Aaron Crow was undrafted out of high school and developed into a first-team All-American who won the Clemens Award, honoring the nation's top pitcher. Crow became a first-round MLB Draft pick and an All-Star in the MLB.
Rob Zastryzny was a second-team All-American and made the MLB.
Tanner Houck, who was coached by both Jamieson and Rhodes, was a first-round MLB draft pick, as well.
Kyle Gibson was the 22nd overall pick in the 2009 MLB Draft and is entering his eighth season as a pitcher in the MLB

Jamieson also developed 14-year MLB veteran (2006-19) and four-time All-Star Ian Kinsler, who was a two-time Gold Glove award winner.

From 2003-09, Jamieson took Missouri to seven-straight NCAA Tournaments. In 2006, he guided the Tigers to a regional championship and an appearance in the NCAA Super Regional. Jamieson's Missouri teams won 35 games or more nine times, and he was the head coach of the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team in 2011.

Jamieson's father, Dick Jamieson, was Indiana St.'s head football coach in 1978 and 1979 (11-11) as well as a Missouri assistant coach and NFL assistant coach for three teams (St. Louis/Arizona, Houston and Philadelphia).
Jamieson's uncle, Bob, was a news correspondent for NBC-TV and ABC-TV.