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Courtesy of Mizzou Athletics
Mizzou shot hitting coach Bryson LeBlanc is not returning to nan programme for a 4th season, providing an contiguous opening astatine nan adjunct position for nan Tigers to fill. The news was first reported by Kendall Rodgers of D1Baseball connected Tuesday evening.
LeBlanc came onto Jackson’s unit successful June 2023 aft serving arsenic an adjunct coach for 5 seasons astatine UC San Diego, serving arsenic a hitting and 3rd guidelines coach, per MU Athletics. The ties to Mizzou were location for LeBlanc to group up his return to nan Tigers program, arsenic he was a personnel of nan Super Regionals-bound squad successful 2006.
Missouri embraced nan mini shot and fierce guidelines moving attack offensively nether his LeBlanc’s guidance. The Tigers classed 3rd successful nan SEC successful sac bunts successful 2025 and 2nd successful 2026. The Tigers were sixth successful stolen bases per crippled successful nan convention successful 2025 and ninth successful 2026.
The past 3 seasons, Mizzou’s discourtesy wide has classed successful nan bottommost 3 successful batting average, slugging percent and runs batted in. This coaching alteration comes caller disconnected a study connected May 22 (also by Rogers) that caput coach Kerrick Jackson is expected to return pinch accrued soul support to ramp up to nan program.
Per Rogers, nan hunt for nan position is wide open. “This is thing against nan atom successful nan existent era of collegiate athletics, successful nan midst of nan transportation portal era,” he said.
Who nan Tigers now pull will beryllium interesting, arsenic they precocious hired astatine a caller pitching coach earlier nan 2026 season. Drew Dickinson had a highly coveted resume astatine Virginia wherever nan Cavaliers classed highly crossed nan committee successful ERA and strikeouts from 2021-24, per MU Athletics.
This opening will beryllium yet different accommodation for nan Tigers program, who seems to person go accustomed to it by now. Two Missouri players person already departed into nan portal this offseason.
