 | Mario Iglesias |
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Volunteer Assistant
| | Experience:
1st Season
| | Alma Mater, Year:
Stanford, 1996
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Iglesias enters his first year as the volunteer assistant at Stanford. Iglesias is the CEO of Headfirst Baseball West Coast, Inc., a baseball academy he founded in Castro Valley with his brother, Michael (who pitched professionally for 10 years).
He pitched for the Cardinal from 1993 thru 1996, reaching the College World Series in 1995. The 1995 team started a string of 10 straight years of 40-win campaigns, while the 1996 club won a record 18 games in a row, Iglesias won the first and 18th games of that streak. Iglesias, along with Kyle Peterson, led the team in wins with 10 apiece. He finished off his final season with a 10-1 record and 3.00 ERA over 57.0 innings after appearing in 19 games with a 4.25 ERA in 1995.
His crowning moment at Stanford came in the 1996 NCAA six-team regional, in a winner-take-all finale, he pitched a complete game five-hitter, giving up two runs to eliminate Texas Tech, the top offensive team in the nation, and go to the College World Series.
Iglesias spent five years in the minors, reaching as high as Triple-A with the Cubs in 2000. His best season came in High-A in 1998, pitching for Winston-Salem, where he went 13-1 with a 2.31 in 35 relief appearances. He also had five saves, striking out 90 over 78.0 innings. He then spent the 1999 and 2000 seasons in Double-A, before finishing his professional career in Triple-A. In 1997 he was 8-4 with a 3.41 ERA over 36 relief appearances, also compiling 10 saves. Over 166 career minor league games he had a 33-19 record and 307 strikeouts over 345.0 innings.
He graduated with a degree in psychology in 1996. This past fall he married his wife, Connie.
