Michael Barash

Title

Director of Baseball Operations
Email Address

mbarash@shsu.edu
Alma Mater

Texas A&M
Graduation Year

2019
Phone

936 294-4169
Twitter

@M_Barash5

COACHING EXPERIENCE
Years	School, Position
2020	Angelina College Assistant Coach
2019	Texas A&M Student Assistant
PLAYING EXPERIENCE
Years	School
2018	Mobile/Salt Lake (LA Angels)
2017	Mobile/Inland Empire (LA Angels)
2016	Orem/Burlington (LA Angels)
2015-16	Texas A&M
2014	Palm Beach CC
2013	LSU

In two years at Sam Houston, Barash has been able to mentor and guide numerous all-conference and all-American players, including the No. 5 overall pick in the 2021 MLB Draft Colton Cowser and 9th-round pick Jack Rogers.

Cowser was named a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist in 2021 after his record-breaking season, and one year later Barash was there to mentor 2022 WAC Player of the Year Carlos Contreras.

That season Contreras was also named first team all-WAC in 2022 and named a Golden Spikes Award semifinalist. Barash also directly mentored 2022 All-WAC Defensive Team catcher Walker Janek, who was also named to the midseason Buster Posey Award Watch List for the nation’s best catcher. On the pitching side, Barash has mentored second-eam all-WAC relief pitcher Lance Lusk.

During his time in Huntsville, the Bearkats have seen a drastic improvement on the data/analytics side as he has guided the Kats into the new age of baseball with the usage of Yakkertech and TruMedia.

Barash oversees the personal and athletic development of all student-athletes within the Bearkat Baseball Program.

A former star himself on the diamond at Texas A&M, he spent the 2019 season as a student assistant for the Aggies and Coach Rob Childress, completing his B.S. in Recreation, Park and Tourism Sciences with an emphasis on Youth Development in the process.

Barash was raised in Boca Raton, Fla., and committed to play baseball at LSU as a sophomore. After graduating early, Barash enrolled at LSU in the Spring of 2013 and was on the Tigers’ 2013 College World Series.

The following year Barash transferred to Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Fla., where he played one season (2014) under Kyle Forbes and earned First Team All-Conference and Second Team All-State as a sophomore catcher.

After Palm Beach State, Barash transferred to Texas A&M and played two full seasons (2015-16) as the Aggies’ everyday catcher. His Aggie teams won 99 games in two years, reached two Super Regionals and won the first ever SEC Baseball Championship in school history.

Barash was then selected in the 9th Round of the 2016 MLB Draft by the Los Angeles Angels. He rose quickly through the ranks as he reached Triple-A Salt Lake in his second full season (2018) and was invited to Major League Spring Training both his years in the Angels system.

Barash voluntarily retired from professional baseball in July 2018 to focus on finishing his degree and begin his calling of coaching collegiately.