The Clemson Tigers baseball program is a college baseball team that represents Clemson University in the Atlantic Division of the Atlantic Coast Conference in the National Collegiate Athletic Association. The team has had 28 head coaches since it started playing organized baseball in the 1896 season. The current coach is Erik Bakich, who took over the head coaching position in 2023.
Bill Wilhelm is the all-time leader in games coached (1,707), seasons coached (36), and total wins (1,161). John Heisman has the highest winning percentage of any Tiger coach with a 28–6–1 record (.814) in his three years in Clemson. R. T. V. Bowman has the lowest winning percentage (.250 in two seasons).
In 2011, Wilhelm was inducted into the National College Baseball Hall of Fame.
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+General # Number of coaches GC Games coached † Elected to the National College Baseball Hall of Fame
+ Overall OW Wins OL Losses OT Ties O% Winning percentage
+ Conference CW Wins CL Losses CT Ties C% Winning percentage
+ Postseason PA Total Appearances PW Total Wins PL Total Losses WA College World Series appearances WW College World Series wins WL College World Series losses
+Championships DC Division regular season CC Conference regular season CT Conference tournament
Coaches + List of head baseball coaches showing season(s) coached, overall records, conference records, postseason records, championships and selected awards+ *Statistics correct as of the end of the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season # Name Term Awards 1 8 2 6 0 .250 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 2 Unknown 17 12 5 0 .706 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 3 35 28 6 1 .814 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 4 46 20 23 3 .467 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 5 17 9 7 1 .559 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 6 17 6 11 0 .353 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 7 22 10 12 0 .455 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 8 21 10 11 0 .476 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 9 58 37 21 0 .638 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 10 22 16 6 0 .727 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 11 45 26 18 1 .589 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 12 45 17 28 0 .378 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 13 39 17 21 1 .449 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 14 19 5 14 0 .263 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 15 56 29 26 1 .527 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 16 25 11 14 0 .440 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 17 19 8 11 0 .421 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 18 25 11 13 1 .460 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 19 81 42 36 3 .537 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 20 135 67 66 2 .504 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 21 79 58 19 2 .747 13 2 0 .867 1 3 2 0 0 0 — 1 — 0 — 22 34 18 14 2 .558 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 23 15 12 3 0 .800 — — — — — — — — — — — — — 0 — 24 119 70 48 1 .592 47 18 1 .720 1 0 2 0 0 0 — 0 0 0 — 25 119 52 65 2 .445 39 50 2 .440 2 3 4 — — — — 1 0 0 — 26 † 1707 1161 536 10 .683 378 158 1 .706 17 42 36 6 4 12 — 20 7 0 ACC (1988, 91); ABCA District III (1991) 27 1189 812 376 1 304 166 1 17 65 39 6 8 12 2 2 2 0 ACC (1994, 95, 2006); ABCA Atlantic Region (2002, 10) 28 251 168 83 0 70 50 0 4 8 9 — — — 1 0 1 0 — 29 243 164 79 0 68 52 0 3 5 6 — — — 1 0 1 0 —
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