NORMAL, Ill. – Illinois State baseball has announced the hiring of Logan Moon as an Assistant Coach. Moon will primarily serve as the team's hitting coach.
Moon comes to Illinois State after spending the past four years on staff at Saint Louis University. The Billiken offense made massive strides under the direction of Moon, including breaking the school record for runs and RBIs in 2023.
SLU ranked top-50 in NCAA Division I baseball in 2023 in the following categories: runs, runs per game, on-base percentage, sacrifice flies, and stolen bases. SLU would also lead the A-10 in runs, hits, and RBIs during the 2023 campaign.
A former collegiate baseball player himself, Moon began his coaching career at Oklahoma Wesleyan University, spending the 2019-20 season with the Eagles.
In his time at OWU, he helped lead the program to top-10 rankings in home runs per game, total runs, and RBIs as well as had two athletes in the top-15 individually in home runs.
Moon was drafted in the sixth round of the 2014 MLB Draft by the Kansas City Royals out of Missouri Southern State University. Moon would reach as high as the AAA level in his five seasons of professional ball.
Moon earned his degree in health promotion from Missouri Southern State University in 2014. Moon is a native of Blue Springs, Missouri.
QUOTES:
LOGAN MOON
"I'm excited to be a part of the Redbird family. Illinois State has a long history of athletic and academic success. I look forward to building off the culture already established. Perhaps the most exciting part is the ability to work with the already existing roster which is extremely talented."
"I want to thank Steve Holm, Paul Kabbes, and Dr. Jeri Beggs for the opportunity. Go Birds!"
HEAD COACH STEVE HOLM
"We are thrilled to be able to add such a high caliber coach as Logan Moon to Redbird baseball. SLU finished 36th in the country last season with a .302 batting average, and with the talented players we have, we can't wait to see what impact he will have on us. Logan played at a high level of professional baseball and his coaching career seems to be on the same trajectory."
"With the amount of MLB draft picks we have had in the past few years, Logan's expertise should fit in perfect! It's a great day to be a Redbird!"
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