Baseball Adds Slattery as Assistant Coach
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. – Michael Slattery – previously a member of the coaching staffs at Holy Cross, Georgia State, and Grinnell College – has joined the Harvard University baseball coaching staff as an assistant coach, Bill Decker, The Joseph J. O’Donnell ’67 Head Coach for Harvard Baseball, announced on Friday.
Following a four-year playing career at Grinnell from 2015-18, Slattery served as an assistant coach at his alma mater for the 2019 season, as a graduate assistant and then director of analytics/player personnel at Georgia State from 2020-21, and as an assistant coach at Holy Cross from 2022-24.
Prior to joining Harvard, Slattery spent three seasons as an assistant coach at Holy Cross from 2022-24. Slattery served as an assistant hitting coach as well as the Crusaders’ infield and outfield defense coach. He helped improve the Crusaders OPS by over 100 points, while also holding responsibilities with recruiting and scouting.
During his time at Georgia State, Slattery acted as a graduate assistant during the 2020-21 academic year and as the program’s director of analytics/player personnel during the 2021-22 school year. With the Panthers, Slattery helped facilitate the team’s day-to-day operations as well as its game day operations, including through the use of technology.
Slattery started his collegiate coaching career as an assistant coach with Grinnell during the 2018-19 academic year. With the Pioneers, he held responsibilities around offense, infield defense, video analysis, and scouting.
A four-year letterwinner in baseball at Grinnell College, Slattery earned a bachelor’s degree in biological chemistry from Grinnell in 2018 prior to gaining a master’s degree in sports administration from Georgia State University in 2021.
