McDaniel College

Career Highlights

• Centennial Conference Coaching Staff of the Year (2024)
• 2 Centennial Conference Tournament appearances (2024, 2025)
• 16 All-Centennial Conference selections
• 8 all-region selections
• 2 Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year (Shea McKenna, 2024; Shane Daly, 2022)

Jim Carone is set to begin his fifth season as the head baseball coach at McDaniel in 2026.

Carone has guided the Green Terror to back-to-back Centennial Conference Baseball Championship appearances in 2024 and 2025, including a win over Gettysburg in the first round of the 2025 tournament for the program's first home playoff win since 2003.

The 2025 season saw graduate student Joey Hubinger break the program record for career hits and junior Ben Davis break the program record for career home runs. Four players earned All-Centennial Conference honors with Davis being named to the D3baseball.com and American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) all-region honors.

In 2024, Carone led McDaniel to its first appearance and win in the conference tournament appearance since 2016. The team had a program-record seven players earned All-Centennial Conference honors, including freshman Shea McKenna who was named Rookie of the Year. Carone and his staff was also awarded Coaching Staff of the Year.

In his first season in 2022, Carone guided McDaniel to its first 20-win season in seven years. The offense led Division III in triples per game (0.78) and ranked second in total triples (31). The Green Terror led the conference in seven offensive categories, including batting average (.327), walks (206), hits (457), on-base percentage (.425) and scoring (9.0 runs per game). Shane Daly was also named Centennial Conference Rookie of the Year.

Carone came to McDaniel after spending 10 seasons as the head coach at Division I Wagner where he led the Seahawks to 207 wins from 2012-21, becoming just the second coach in program history to reach the 200-win plateau. The 2015 and 2018 Northeast Conference (NEC) Coach of the Year, he had five players selected in the Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft since 2013. Four of those players have advanced to at least the Double-A level and two have received promotions to their respective MLB teams.

In 2018, Carone led Wagner to a program-record 38 wins, including a record 21 in the NEC, a regular season championship, the program's first since 2009, and the NEC title game. He served as chair of the NEC coaches’ committee and served on the NCAA Baseball Rules Committee from 2015-19. He was committee chair in 2018 and 2019.

Prior to Wagner, Carone served four seasons as pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Division I Villanova. Four of his Wildcat pitchers were drafted in the MLB First-Year Player Draft.

Carone has had 23 players who have been selected in MLB First-Year Player Draft with four of them reaching the MLB level. He also coached two current MLB pitching coaches; Andrew Bailey of the Boston Red Sox (Wagner, 2006) and Bill Murphy of the Houston Astros (Wagner, 2012).

Carone also spent time as an assistant coach at Rider (2006-08), Wagner (2005-06), Stevens (2004-05), and New Jersey Institute of Technology (2003-04).

As a player at Division I Monmouth, Carone was named the Northeast Conference Pitcher of the Year and to the All-Northeast Conference First Team as a junior in 2002 when he set the program record for wins in a season with a 10-3 record and 2.21 ERA in 97.2 innings. He was also a team captain as a senior. He graduated from Monmouth in 2003 with a bachelor's degree in Business Administration and Marketing.

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