University of California, Santa Barbara

Dylan Jones, a former pitcher and first baseman at Oregon State, joined the UC Santa Barbara Baseball staff as the director of baseball operations in August 2017. He was promoted to volunteer assistant coach in September of 2018, and was made an assistant coach prior to the 2020 season. He is set to enter his ninth season with the program and his seventh at the position in 2026. As well as coaching the Gauchos’ pitchers, Jones also serves as the program’s recruiting coordinator. Since his arrival, UC Santa Barbara has produced 35 MLB Draft picks, 11 All-Americans, 9 Freshman All-Americans, two Big West Pitchers of the Year, the 2019 Big West Player of the Year, three Big West Freshman Pitchers of the Year and the 2021 Big West Freshman Player of the Year.
 
In 2019, Jones’ first season as an assistant coach, the Gauchos posted their 4^th-best team ERA in program history (3.30) and won 45 games en route to a Big West Championship and NCAA Regional appearance. Rodney Boone went 8-0 and was named Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year that season, as well as earning Freshman All-America honors alongside Michael McGreevy.
 
Two years later, with Jones in his first full season as a full-time assistant coach, Boone and McGreevy were a near-unstoppable one-two punch on the mound. The Big West Pitcher of the Year that season, Boone struck out a program-record 128 batters in 2021, leading a squad that set the program record for strikeouts as a team, with 619. Both he and McGreevy were selected in that summer’s MLB Draft, with the latter being taken in the first round.
 
The Gauchos went 27-3 in The Big West in 2022 to win another conference title, with Ryan Gallagher being named that season’s Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year.
 
In 2023, the Santa Barbara pitching staff produced five shutouts, their fifth-most in program history. The Gauchos also put up five donuts in Jones’ first season as a full-time assistant, 2020, doing so in just 15 games.
 
Jones and the Gauchos collected a third Big West Championship in 2024, with Gallagher being named Big West Pitcher of the Year after. He was one of three Santa Barbara hurlers to win double-digit games that season, with both Gallagher and Mike Gutierrez picking up 10 victories. Gutierrez went undefeated on the mound, setting a program record for most victories without a loss in a season. But, Tyler Bremner out-did them both, earning 11 wins and posting a Big West-leading 104 strikeouts.
 
In 2025, Bremner continued his strike-throwing ways, punching out 111 hitters to set a new program record with 295 career strikeouts. That summer, Bremner became the Gauchos’ highest-drafted player of all time, being selected second overall by the Los Angeles Angels.
 
As a student-athlete, Jones turned in two productive seasons for Oregon State. A two-way player, he accrued a 1-0 record, 2.01 ERA, and .169 batting average against as a pitcher while as a batter he finished with a .284 career average, including a .329 average as a junior. The Beavers made the NCAA Tournament in both of his seasons in Corvallis. 
 
Since his senior season at OSU in 2011, Jones has put together quite a prolific resume as a player and coach. He spent the season after his departure from Oregon State playing professionally in Australia for the Perth Heat. Serving as a reliever out of the bullpen, Jones was able to help Perth to the 2012 Australian Baseball League Championship. 
 
Jones returned to Oregon State for the 2013 season as an undergraduate assistant coach. While finishing his degree, he worked alongside head coach Pat Casey to steer the Beavers to the 2013 College World Series in Omaha, Neb. 
 
The Portland, Oregon native went on to make coaching stops with the Kelowna Falcons, Bend Elks (both West Coast League), and Linn-Benton Community College. 
 
In each of those stops, he served as his team's pitching coach, organizing the staff and developing conditioning programs for his players. At Linn-Benton, he assisted in recruiting efforts for prospective student-athletes. Under his tutelage, Kelowna was able to make its first-ever WCL Championship Series in 2015. 
 
His first post-OSU coaching job came with the Medford Rogues of the Great West League, where he served as assistant coach. With Medford, he worked with the team's position players and coached first base.