Introduction
Michael Harold Batesole (born March 28, 1964) is the head baseball coach of the Fresno State Bulldogs baseball team. In 5 seasons as head coach, he has compiled a 360–246 record, as of the end of the 2012 season. He previously coached for 7 seasons at Cal State Northridge. His overall record stands at 616–404–1, as of the end of the 2012 season. In 2006 and 2007, his teams won back-to-back WAC championships in baseball. He led Fresno State to tournament appearances in 2006 and 2007, due to winning the conference tournament.
In 2008, he coached Fresno State to their first College World Series appearance in seventeen years by defeating #3 Arizona State, and then defeating #6 Rice University, #2 University of North Carolina to advance to the championship, and then defeating #8 University of Georgia in the final two games in a best two-out-of-three championship series winning 19–10 in the second game, and 6–1 in the third game to win Fresno State their first NCAA Men's Championship.
He also went to the NCAA tournament in 1996 and 2002 with Cal State Northridge. He has coached 55 professional baseball players. He went 256–158–1 at CS Northridge and posted the second most wins in school history.
Head coaching records
The following is a list of Batesole's yearly records as an NCAA head baseball coach.
| Season | Team | Overall | Conference | Standing | Postseason | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cal State Northridge Matadors (Western Athletic Conference) (1996–1996) | |||||||||
| 1996 | Cal State Northridge | 52–18 | 21–9 | 1st (West) | NCAA Regional | ||||
| Cal State Northridge Matadors (NCAA Division I independent) (1997–2000) | |||||||||
| 1997 | Cal State Northridge | 42–20 | |||||||
| 1998 | Cal State Northridge | 37–19 | |||||||
| 1999 | Cal State Northridge | 27–29 | |||||||
| 2000 | Cal State Northridge | 23–33 | |||||||
| Cal State Northridge Matadors (Big West Conference) (2001–2002) | |||||||||
| 2001 | Cal State Northridge | 34–22 | 9–9 | 4th | |||||
| 2002 | Cal State Northridge | 41–17 | 19–5 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| Cal State Northridge: | 256–158 | 49–23 | |||||||
| Fresno State Bulldogs (Western Athletic Conference) (2003–2012) | |||||||||
| 2003 | Fresno State | 30–29 | 14–16 | 3rd | |||||
| 2004 | Fresno State | 29–29 | 17–12 | 2nd | |||||
| 2005 | Fresno State | 30–29 | 16–14 | 2nd | |||||
| 2006 | Fresno State | 45–18 | 18–6 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2007 | Fresno State | 38–29 | 17–7 | 1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2008 | Fresno State | 47–31 | 21–11 | 1st | National Champions | ||||
| 2009 | Fresno State | 32–30 | 12–12 | T–3rd | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2010 | Fresno State | 38–25 | 16–8 | 1st | |||||
| 2011 | Fresno State | 40–16 | 17–7 | T–1st | NCAA Regional | ||||
| 2012 | Fresno State | 31–28 | 8–10 | 5th | NCAA Regional | ||||
| Fresno State Bulldogs (Mountain West Conference) (2013–present) | |||||||||
| 2013 | Fresno State | 23–33 | 14–16 | 4th | |||||
| 2014 | Fresno State | 28–29 | 13–17 | 5th | |||||
| 2015 | Fresno State | 31–28 | 18–12 | 3rd | |||||
| 2016 | Fresno State | 36–18 | 21–9 | 1st | |||||
| Fresno State: | 478–372 | 221–157 | |||||||
| Total: | 734–530 | ||||||||
| National champion Postseason invitational champion | |||||||||