MSU Baseball Assistant Coach Adam Eaton Leaving For LA Angels

EAST LANSING, Mich. — Michigan State baseball head coach Jake Boss Jr. introduced Wednesday that Player Development Director Adam Eaton has left the Spartan workers and might be becoming a member of the Los Angeles Angels as first base coach and outfield teacher.

“We’re extremely appreciative of everything that Coach Eaton did for Michigan State baseball,” Boss mentioned. “Our players learned a lot from him just as he learned a lot from our players in his first coaching position. We wish him nothing but the best with the Angels, we know he’s going to do great things with them, and he’ll forever be a Spartan.”

Eaton joined the MSU workers in September of 2022, and was with the Spartans for 3 seasons. As Director of Player Development, Eaton served as a training workers liaison having enter on the event of outfield play, base-running and hitting.

He was no stranger to Spartan Athletics, as his brother-in-law is former MSU hockey participant Zach Osburn, who performed for the Spartans from 2015-19, and earned honorable point out All-B1G honors in 2019.

Eaton performed Major League Baseball for 10 seasons (2012-21), earlier than retiring previous to the 2022 season, together with successful the World Series with the Washington Nationals in 2019. He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks within the nineteenth spherical of the 2010 MLB Draft out of Miami of Ohio. Eaton made his MLB debut on September 4, 2012, with the Diamondbacks. He additionally performed for the Chicago White Sox (2014-16, 21), the Nationals (2017-20) and the Los Angeles Angels (2021).

Eaton was additionally teammate of recent Angels’ supervisor Kurt Suzuki with the Nationals from 2019-20.