MURFREESBORO, Tenn. – Jim Toman has been hired as the 22nd baseball coach in Middle Tennessee history, Director of Athletics Chris Massaro announced Wednesday.
Toman's hiring signals a new era for the Blue Raiders as the highly-successful mentor is the first baseball coach in 45 years to not have direct ties to the program.
"Jim Toman is nationally known for his recruiting skills which has been on display at previous stops," Massaro said. "It showed as the head coach at Liberty where he won 60 percent of his games with a very selective recruiting pool available.