Baseball
- Title:
- Volunteer Assistant Coach
- Email:
- typeders@calpoly.edu
- Phone:
- 805-756-6367
Tyger Pederson
Volunteer Assictant Coach • First Season
Pacific ('13)
Tyger Pederson, a three-year starter at Pacific and older brother of Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Joc Pederson, was hired as Cal Poly's volunteer assistant baseball coach in September 2017.
Pederson, who turns 28 in October, hit .274 in three seasons under head coach Ed Sprague at Pacific, collecting 13 doubles, two triples and one home run while driving in 44. A team captain as a senior at Pacific, he was a redshirt in 2010 after transferring from Redlands, where as a freshman he hit .471 in 10 games (three starts) in 2009.
A 2008 graduate of Palo Alto High School, Pederson earned 10 varsity letters in football (four), basketball (two) and baseball (four). He hit .387 as a senior and was team MVP as well as earning a spot on the All-Santa Clara Valley Athletic League first team. He was a kicker on the Vikings' football team.
After his senior year at Pacific, Pederson was drafted in the 33rd round by the Dodgers and played one season in the Arizona Rookie League before competing in independent leagues from 2014-16, including stints with the San Rafael Pacifics and Vallejo Admirals in the Pacific Association.
In the summer of 2016, Pederson was a coach of the International Elite Camp in Taiwan for Major League Baseball. He was a graduate assistant coach at Hawaii Pacific for the 2017 season and managed the Orange County Riptide to the California Collegiate League championship in the summer of 2017, earning CCL manager of the year honors. Pederson will manage the Duluth Huskies in the independent Northern League during the summer of 2018.
Among the players he has coached are NCAA All-American Dominic Fletcher of Arkansas and recent draft selections Eric Wagaman (Yankees), Dean Miller (Braves) and Matthew Gunter (Blue Jays).
Pederson's father, Stu, played baseball at USC before he was drafted by the Dodgers in the ninth round in 1981. He played 12 years professionally in the farm systems of the Dodgers and Toronto Blue Jays, including eight games with the Dodgers in 1985.
Pederson earned his bachelor's degree in sports science in 2013 at Pacific and is pursuing a master's degree in elementary education as well as a teaching credential.
