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Former Cerritos College catcher
and assistant coach
Bill Mosiello
has been added to the USC baseball coaching staff
for next season. He is scheduled to be the third
base coach, which includes guiding the hitters and
infielders, and he is expected to start his new job
within the next week or so. Mosiello played for the
Falcons from 1984-85, and then after graduating from
Fresno State University, served as an assistant
under
George Horton
from 1987-90. During his playing time with Cerritos,
Mosiello was an All-South Coast Conference catcher
in 1985 as the team won the state championship with
a 39-5 record. He also was named the team's Most
Inspirational Player his freshman year and earned
the Dallas Moon Award for being an overachiever his
sophomore season.
Most recently, Mosiello, 41, was
the manager this season for the Charleston RiverDogs,
the New York Yankees' single-A affiliate of the
South Atlantic League. This was Mosiello's fourth
season with the Yankees' organization, posting a
129-98 (.568) record in two years as the RiverDogs'
manager. He first made the move to the Division I
level in 1991, joining Augie Garrido's staff at Cal
State Fullerton where he spent two seasons
(1991-92). In 1992, the Titans advanced to the
College World Series championship game, falling to
Pepperdine, 3-2. In 1993 and 1994, he served as Rod
Delmonico's assistant at the University of
Tennessee, where the Volunteers claimed consecutive
Southeastern Conference championships. After one
season as pitching coach at Mississippi in 1995,
Mosiello spent five seasons (1996-2000) at Oklahoma
with part of his tenure as associate head coach. At
Oklahoma, the Sooners posted several top finishes in
the final national and conference fielding rankings,
including a streak of three straight first-place
finishes in the Big 12 Conference. He was a
volunteer assistant coach at Arizona State in 2001
before joining the Yankees.
“I wasn’t actively looking for a
new job, as it would take something special for me
to leave the Yankees and Southern California is
special,” said Mosiello on the RiverDogs website.
“This opportunity is indeed unique and it was a
situation that I professionally couldn’t turn down.
My time in Charleston and with the RiverDogs has
been incredible, and this is a special place for
us,” he added. “I’ve enjoyed the many relationships
that I’ve made through the Yankees and the RiverDogs,
and my family and I leave here with mixed emotions.
Mosiello was tabbed by Baseball
America as one of the nation's top assistant coaches
after guiding 17 All-Americans, 10 first round major
league baseball draft picks and more than 30 major
leaguers. |
