The 2022 MBCA 55th Annual Clinic
Hall of Fame Induction & Awards Ceremony
February 4-6, 2022 • Four Points by Sheraton-Wakefield, MA
2022 Scheduled Speakers
Luke Behn
Peabody Fitness
Luke has built a career on a passion for innovating exercise physiology. He owns and operates three premier health and wellness centers in the Boston area where he applies an advanced knowledge of strength, conditioning, and corrective exercise to hundreds of clients each week. With a unique ability to develop progressive health and wellness plans for people from all walks of life, he has been able to achieve an incredible range of results – from college athletes preparing for the evolution into professional leagues to 90-year-olds seeking a more fulfilling, active lifestyle. As a graduate of Springfield College, he has built a professional staff with a diverse set of skills including agility, recovery and prevention, flexibility, and power. Luke is thrilled to partner with The Plex and operate his newest locations Peabody Sports and Fitness to share the gift of true fitness with a broader audience.
Ohio Head Coach Joe Carbone
Joe Carbone
Ohio University – retired
Joe Carbone spent 24 seasons in the dugout as the head baseball coach of his alma mater, Ohio University, compiling a 689-611-2 (.529) overall record from 1989-2012. His 689 wins make him the winningest coach in any sport at the institution and place him third all-time in Mid-American Conference (MAC) history. Additionally, his 368 conference wins rank second in MAC history.
During his tenure, Ohio won two MAC titles and Carbone was named MAC Coach of the Year twice (1991 and 1997). He was also honored as the ABCA/Diamond Mideast Region Coach of the Year in 1997, following the Bobcats’ record-setting 43-win season.
Over the course of his coaching career, 44 players signed professional baseball contracts. Eight of Carbone’s players achieved All-America status and he coached 43 first-team All-MAC and 33 All-Mideast Region performers.
Carbone took over the Bobcats’ program after 18 years as an assistant coach at Marshall, Toledo and Ohio State. During his stint with the Buckeyes from 1977-88, Carbone was very active in collegiate summer leagues. He was a coach and general manager of the Columbus All-Americans, also helping to develop the Great Lakes Summer Collegiate League in Michigan and Ohio. For Carbone’s accomplishments and continued commitment to development of the GLSCL, the league named the Manager of the Year Award after him in his honor.
Carbone has been a frequent speaker at coaches’ clinics across the United States and Canada. He has produced baseball videos and publications and has also spoken at the ABCA Convention four times.
Matt Hyde
NY Yankees
When it comes to baseball in New England, no one has a better pulse of the baseball scene than Coach Matt Hyde. He truly has done it all: he is a 1992 graduate of Phillips Academy, played four years at the University of Michigan, spent 9 years as a college assistant coach (Harvard, Michigan, Boston College), has coached the Northeast Area Code Team since 2007, and has won 2 Big Ten titles and 2 Ivy League titles as well as 2 Cape Cod titles. His involvement and experience with baseball talent from high school into the professional ranks is unparalleled. Always an insightful and dynamic speaker, the MBCA is thrilled to have Coach Hyde speak to our coaches about creating competitive practices and building championship teams.
Tim Mayo
Nichols College
Mayo was named the Commonwealth Coast Conference (CCC) Coach of the Year in 2021 following a record-setting season for the Bison. The team posted a 16-5 record, which was good for a .625 winning percentage – the highest for the program since the 2005 campaign. The Bison established program-records for dingers (29), on-base percentage (.444), and slugging pct. (.542), and also recorded the second-highest team batting average (.343) in program history. Nichols hurlers fanned 228 batters in 2021, second only to the 254 registered during his first season at the helm of the program in 2019. Nichols pitchers held opponents to a .256 batting average in 2021, which is the fourth-lowest mark ever recorded in Dudley.
Pete Moscariello
Personal Best
MBCA’s own Pete Moscariello will share his expertise in mental toughness training. Pete has run clinics and seminars for parents and student-athletes for years through a company he founded, Personal Best. Pete Moscariello was the Head Baseball Coach at Reading Memorial High School for over 30 years and has over over 500 career wins, 12 league championships, is a two-time Boston Globe & 8-time Middlesex League Coach of the Year, and has a state championship under his belt. Pete is the owner and director of the Reading Baseball School since 1984 and has been inducted in to the Massachusetts Baseball Coaches Association Hall of Fame and the Reading Memorial High School Athletics Hall of Fame. Coach Moscariello was also the recipient of the MIAA and Sportsmanship Alliance of Massachusetts Award in 2003 and 2009.
Brian Murphy
Merrimack College
Murphy—who becomes the seventh head coach in program history—returns home to North Andover after eight seasons at William & Mary. In that time with the Tribe, Murphy’s programs had four 30-win seasons, five CAA-Tournament appearances and its first NCAA Tournament at-large bid. Murphy was recognized as CAA Coach of the Year in 2014 after winning 34 games in his first year at the helm for the Tribe. In 2016, Murhpy was named VASID Coach of the Year after a CAA Tournament Championship and NCAA Regional Final Appearance. William & Mary turned four 30+ win seasons under Murphy’s tutelage. Nine players who have competed for Murphy’s teams have been taken in the MLB Draft, with two players taken in the first five rounds.
Programs under the Easton, Mass. native have also seen outstanding academic achievement in addition to the team’s on-field success. William & Mary teams earned three-straight Team Academic Awards by the ABCA, with three student athletes recognized as CoSIDA Academic-All Americans and a CAA Scholar Athlete of the Year.
Prior to his tenure in Williamsburg, Va., Murphy served as Recruiting Coordinator and Hitting Coach for the Brown University Bears, with ten student-athletes earning All-Ivy League Selections in his three years on the staff.
Matt Noone
Babson College
A 1990 graduate of Princeton University, Matt Noone is entering his 20th season as head coach of Babson’s baseball program in 2021. In 19 seasons at the helm, Noone has won more than 400 games and made seven postseason appearances, which includes leading the Beavers’ first trip to the Division III College World Series in 2019.
In the midst of the most successful stretch in program history, Noone guided the Green and White to a third straight NEWMAC regular season title and a school-record 39 wins that culminated with a spot in the 2019 Division III College World Series. The Beavers captured the Hartford Regional with a winner-take-all victory over Trinity and then swept Cortland in a best-of-three super regional series at Govoni Field to advance to Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
Following a record-setting 2017 campaign that saw the Green and White win 29 games and advance to the championship round of the NCAA Tournament Harwich Regional, Noone led the Beavers to an even better 2018 campaign. Babson captured its second consecutive NEWMAC regular season and tournament titles, won a then-school-record 35 games, and came within one victory of reaching the Division III College World Series as the runner-up at the York (Pa.) Regional. The Beavers won 28 of their final 33 games and set new program marks for runs scored, home runs, doubles, walks and total bases.
Overall since 2017, the Green and White has won 118 games, claimed four straight NEWMAC regular season crowns, and captured two conference tournament championships in addition to its NCAA Tournament success.
A two-time conference and two-time regional coach of the year, Noone has led the Green and White to 15 winning seasons and 22 or more wins on 11 occasions. He guided the Beavers to 26 victories in 2008 and led the program to its first NCAA Tournament win in 2009. Noone also led Babson to 25 wins in 2011 and helped his 2014 and 2016 squads advance to the NEWMAC Tournament championship series.
Prior to his arrival at Babson, Noone spent 12 seasons as the pitching coach at Northeastern University, as well as serving as a pitching coach in the Cape Cod League for both the Bourne Braves and the Hyannis Mets. Coach Noone will be speaking to the MBCA about how to develop pitchers with a plan every day.
Nick Puccio
Northeastern University
Nick Puccio serves as the hitting coach at Northeastern. Before coming to Northeastern, Coach Puccio led the resurgence of a fledgling Nichols College program that went from single digit victory seasons to consistent 20+ win campaigns. Before heading up Nichols College, Coach Puccio spent two years at Wheaton College as an assistant where he helped guide them to a College World Series. Coach Puccio has been an integral part of every program’s offensive development and success throughout his career and the MBCA is excited for him to share his baserunning philosophies and how to teach the finer aspects of baserunning
Paul Reddick
Director Baseball Education Development
Paul has served as a scout for Pittsburgh Pirates, a state delegate for USA Baseball and coached in the Montreal Expo farm system. His signature velocity getting course The 90mph Club is used by more pitchers than any other single pitching training program. Paul is also a regular speaker at baseball conventions across the country.
Steve Simoes
Hopkinton HS (MA)
Coach Simoes is one of the more respected baseball minds in the Boston area having been successful at every stop along the way, most notably at Hopkinton HS where he led the Hillers to three Tri-Valley League Championships (2001, 2004, 2005), and a Massachusetts State Championship (2004). He earned ABCA Region I Coach of the Year and Daily News Coach of the Year in 2004 and the Boston Globe Coach of the Year in 2005. He also led Hopkinton to three Tri-Valley League Sportsmanship Awards (2002, 2003, 2005). After Hopkinton HS, he served as an assistant coach at Holy Cross. Coach Simoes has done or seen it all and the MBCA is excited to have him share his hitting knowledge with us.
Mark Baldwin
Hampshire Regional HS (MA)
Mark Baldwin is a past president of the MBCA and a 2019 MBCA Hall of Fame inductee. Coach Baldwin has decades of coaching experience and has seen it all. He has guided his teams to six MIAA quarterfinal games and has amassed over 200 victories. His broad-based knowledge of baseball is well-known and the MBCA is pleased that Coach Baldwin will be sharing some of this all-time favorite drills with our association.