| Jeremy Talbot |
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Labadieville, La.
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Assistant Coach
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Jeremy Talbot is in his fourth season as an assistant coach under Rob Childress at Texas A&M. Talbot coaches the catchers and is the hitting instructor, and as recruiting coordinator helped pull in the nation's sixth-best recruiting class in 2008.
Under his tutelage, A&M hitters saw a massive improvement after just one year in the program. From 2006 to 2007, the Aggie offense saw a 62-point increase in batting average and a 121-point jump in slugging percentage, as the team saw its highest offensive output in eight seasons.
The squad kept its offensive punch in 2008, as A&M scored 516 runs and blasted 81 home runs--both the highest totals in nearly a decade. The '08 Aggies also rank in the school's all-time single-season top five in five offensive categories.
Talbot also oversees the catchers, who have gunned down 76 (or 35 percent) of would-be base stealers over the last three seasons, while committing only 15 errors in over 1,500 chances for a .990 fielding percentage.
Prior to coming to Aggieland, Talbot coached the 2005 season at Jacksonville State University in Jacksonville, Ala. under head coach Jim Case. The Gamecocks won the Ohio Valley Conference Regular-Season Championship, just missing the NCAA Tournament by dropping the championship game in the OVC post-season tourney. Before his stint at JSU, Talbot served as an assistant for four seasons at Louisiana-Monroe, where his teams set multiple offensive school and conference records. Talbot coached 12 ULM players who went on to play professional baseball.
A native of Labadieville, La., Talbot spent the 2000 season as an assistant at Northeast Texas Community College in Mount Pleasant, Texas, where he coached all position players and assisted in recruiting.
Talbot served as the volunteer assistant coach for Dave Van Horn at Nebraska in 1999, which is where he met Rob Childress. Talbot helped the Huskers to a 42-18 finish, the Big 12 Tournament championship, and a spot in the NCAA Regionals. Twelve Huskers were eventually drafted that played on the 1999 squad, including major leaguers Ken Harvey, Jamal Strong, Adam Stern, Shane Komine and Adam Shabala. During Talbot's year at Nebraska, the Huskers tied a school record with a .338 team batting average and finished third in the country in runs scored per game.
In 1998, Talbot began his coaching career at Nicholls State under Jim Pizzalato. In the summer of 1998, Talbot coached the Anchorage Glacier Pilots of the Alaskan Summer League.
An all-state and three-time all-district performer at Assumption High School, Talbot began his collegiate playing career at Nicholls State, where he hit .310 as a freshman. He played one year at Mendocino (Calif.) Junior College, earning all-conference honors, before transferring to Arkansas where he started at DH and catcher. Talbot helped the Razorbacks to a Regional appearance and a national ranking. Arkansas' 18-0 start in 1996 was a school and SEC record.
Talbot is married to the former Pixie Hutchinson. The couple has two children-Hutch, who is five, and Brooke, who is three.
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