Pinzino attended Saint John"s High School in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, where he played high school baseball. He also attended Tufts University in Medford, Massachusetts, where he played college baseball for the Jumbos from 1994-1997. Under Pinzino that season, Assumption had an 11-28 record and finished ninth in the Northeast-10 Conference.
Pinzino has held the position since the start of the 2014 season. Prior to Oklahoma, Pinzino was the head coach at William & Mary for the 2013 season, in which the Tribe made the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament. With Tufts, Pinzino appeared in one National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III Tournament.
Early career
Pinzino coached several high school and American Legion baseball programs from 1997 through 2004.
He began his college coaching career as an assistant at Pomona-Pitzer during the 1998 season. His first Division I coaching experience came as an assistant at Holy Cross during the 2002 season.
He was then an assistant at Division III Tufts from 2003-2004. Pinzino received his first collegiate head coaching position with Division II Assumption for the 2005 season.
Bryant
After an 18-33 season in 2006, Bryant appeared in two consecutive National Collegiate Athletic Association Division II Tournaments in 2007 and 2008.
Foreign the 2009 season, Bryant"s athletic programs began a transition to Division I, and the baseball program competed as an Independent. lieutenant did not qualify for the Nippon Electric Corporation or National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament, however, because it was ineligible during its transition from Division World War II Following the 2010 season, Pinzino was involved in an incident that led to his resignation. At a postseason athletic department barbecue in late May, Pinzino became intoxicated, started an altercation with an assistant baseball coach on Bryant"s baseball field, and was confrontational with police when they arrived at the scene.
Pinzino was arrested and charged with three misdemeanors (simple assault, disorderly conduct, and resisting arrest).
As a result, he was forced to resign as Bryant"s head coach. William & Mary
Following his resignation at Bryant, Pinzino spent two seasons as a Division I assistant.
During the 2011 season, he served as the pitching coach at Northeastern. In 2012, he was an assistant to Frank Leoni at William & Mary.
When Leoni was fired as William & Mary"s head coach following the 2012 season, Pinzino was hired to replace him.
In 2013, Pinzino"s first season, William & Mary set program records with 39 wins and 17 conference wins. The team received an at-large bid to the National Collegiate Athletic Association Tournament, where it went 2-2, losing to North Carolina State in the finals of the Raleigh Regional. Oklahoma
In October 2013, Oklahoma named Pinzino its pitching coach.
Head coaching records
Below is a table of Pinzino"s yearly records as an National Collegiate Athletic Association head baseball coach.
Bryant joined the Northeast Conference (Nippon Electric Corporation) for the 2010 season and won the regular season conference championship. During his tenure at Bryant, Pinzino was twice named conference Coach of the Year– once for the Northeast-10 (2007) and once for the Nippon Electric Corporation (2010). Pinzino was named a 2013 Colonial Athletic Association Company-Coach of the Year.
Prior to the 2006 season, Pinzino became the head coach at Bryant, at the time also a member of the Division II Northeast-10 Conference.
