California State University, East Bay Men's Baseball

Mike Cummins was named East Bay head baseball coach in June of 2017 after serving in an interim role beginning September of 2016.  In 2023, Cummins led the Pioneers to their first CCAA Tournamnent appearance since he took over the program. East Bay was the No. 3 seed in the tournament that season.  Since taking over the program, Cummins has seen several Pioneers excel on and off the field. There were over 15 All-CCAA selections and in 2022, the first CCAA Male Scholar Athlete in school history for Cal State East Bay (Mark Woinarowicz) was part of the program.  One of Cummins' most notable Pioneers he has coached is Alex Vesia, a left-handed pitcher who was drafted by the Miami Marlins in 2018. Vesia's professional baseball career led him to the pitching staff for the Los Angeles Dodgers, where his outstanding work as a reliever helped the Dodgers win a 2024 World Series Championship.  Before coming to CSUEB, Cummins spent the 2016 season as an assistant coach at San Jose State. Overall, he brings more than 35 years of coaching experience to the Pioneers, including 10 combined seasons as the head coach at Santa Clara and San Francisco State. In his six seasons at the helm of San Francisco State, 14 Gators received All-CCAA recognition, including the program’s first conference Freshman of the Year selection in 2013. He took over a program in 2009 that had finished 14-33 the previous season and improved their record by eight wins. SFSU’s 22 total wins in 2010 were the program's most since 2006, and the team’s 17 CCAA wins in 2014 and 2015 were the most since the Gators tallied 21 conference wins in 2004. Prior to that, Cummins served as the head coach at Walla Walla (Wash.) Community College, where he guided the Warriors to a 151-121 (.555) record in six seasons. In 2007, Walla Walla was crowned East Region Tournament Champion and received a bid to the Northwest Athletic Association of Community Colleges (NWAACC) Championship Tournament.  Prior to his time at Walla Walla, Cummins spent the 2002 and 2003 seasons as an assistant coach at Washington State.  An alumnus of Santa Clara University, Cummins had a 24-year coaching and playing stint at his alma mater, including a four-year run as the head coach from 1997 to 2001. With Cummins on staff, seven Broncos earned All-America honors, three were named West Coast Conference Player of the Year, three others won WCC Pitcher of the Year and two SCU rookies garnered conference Newcomer of the Year awards. He also played a role in the development of five Bronco catchers who went on to sign professional contracts, beginning with former Kansas City Royal Mike MacFarlane. A native of Monterey, California, Cummins played two seasons at Monterey Peninsula College before transferring to Santa Clara in the fall of 1977. He was a standout catcher on the 1978 and 1979 Santa Clara teams, helping the Broncos to an NCAA Regional appearance in 1978 and earning Second-Team All-Northern California Baseball Association honors as a senior in 1979. After graduating from Santa Clara in 1979 with a bachelor’s degree in history, Cummins signed a professional contract with the Salem Senators of the Northwest League, an independent Class A team, and batted .302 while leading the team in RBIs in his only year with the club. Cummins began his coaching career in 1980 at Buchser High School in Santa Clara, where he guided the baseball team to a second place finish in conference. He also served as the head football coach of the junior varsity program at Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, California. Cummins is a member of the American Baseball Coaches Association and Association of Professional Ball Players of America, and sits on the ABCA/Wilson Lefty Gomez Award Committee.

In 2024, Matt Page joined the Cal State East Bay Baseball coaching staff.  Before becoming a Pioneer, Page coached baseball at multiple institutions. Most recently, he served on the coaching staff at the University of Antelope Valley. He also coached at Western Oklahoma State College, West Virginia Wesleyan College and his alma mater, St. Ambrose University.  At UAV, the team won three conference championships, made two regional appearances and was ranked as high as No. 14. At Western Oklahoma, the team was ranked as high as No. 2 and had a 47-10 record in 2019.  Throughout his coaching career, Page has recruited and coached student-athletes nationally and internationally, with an ability to identify infielders, outfielders, pitchers and hitters. Part of his leadership abilities includes effective communication, coaching and mentoring student-athletes to development of interpersonal skills using baseball as a teaching mechanism.  Page's playing career included four seasons of independent professional baseball and a playing career at St. Ambrose.  From St. Ambrose, Page earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sport Management and earned his master's degree in Applied Exercise Science from Concordia University - Chicago.  Originally from Reno, Nevada, Page graduated from Galena High School. 

As a former Pioneer player, Cole Coffey returned to Hayward prior to the 2025 season to join the coaching staff as an Assistant Baseball Coach.  After playing for the Pioneers, Coffey's most recent baseball coaching role was at Saint Mary's College of California serving as Director of Operations for the Gaels for the 2024 season.  In summer of 2023, Coffey was an an infield and hitting coach for the Anchorage Glacier Pilots, a summer baseball team and the team won the Alaska Baseball League that season.  As a Pioneer on the field, Coffey played in 2023 and had six RBIs and three doubles, two triples and a home run.  He twice earned the D2 ADA Academic Achievement Award and was on the CCAA Spring Academic Honor Roll.  Before playing at East Bay, Coffey played for CSUN in 2020 with four starts at third base.  Coffey's first two seasons of college baseball were played at Chabot College, where he was first-team all-conference selection in both season played for the Gladiators. He also  was named Pacific Association All-America Third Team, was an all-state and first-team all-region selection. Coffey batted .337 with 54 RBIs, four home runs, 15 doubles and 34 runs scored as a sophomore. As a freshman, he hit .311 with four homers, 29 RBIs, 42 runs scored and 11 doubles as a freshman.

Just a short time removed from his playing career at Cal State East Bay, Enrique Nunez returned to the Pioneer baseball program as an assistant coach in 2025.  In 2023 and 2024, Nunez was an assistant baseball coach at his alma mater, Washington High School in Fremont, California.  In the 2022 season at East Bay, Nunez appeared in 23 games and started nine. On April 15 that season, he had three RBIs against Cal State LA.  Before becoming a Pioneer, Nunez played baseball at Laney College.  Nunez earned a bachelor's degree in Kinesiology in 2022 from Cal State East Bay.