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A native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, Dustin Glant has experience in professional baseball, as a Division I assistant coach and as a collegiate head coach. A former MLB prospect out of college, Glant completed his fourth season as the pitching coach in Bloomington in 2025.
Glant’s experience in professional baseball expands an already wide-ranging 10-plus year coaching career. After being selected in the seventh round of the 2003 Major League Baseball Draft, the right-handed pitcher spent six years in the Arizona Diamondbacks organization and three years in independent ball, before taking his first coaching job in 2013. Before coming to IU, he was most recently a pitching coach in the Yankees organization.
In his first three seasons, Glant has helped turn the IU pitching staff into a strikeout machine and a producer of high-level arms for the next level. The Hoosiers’ three-best team strikeout seasons in program history all came in his first three years at the helm in 2022 (600), 2023 (598) and 2024 (589).
Since Glant took over the helm as the team’s pitching coach, the Hoosiers have had nine different pitchers selected in the MLB Draft. Two of those (Craig Yoho and Jack Perkins) have already debuted in the big leagues.
Indiana Era (2022-present)
The Hoosiers dropped their team ERA by over half a run per game (5.61) in 2025 behind a new look pitching staff. A quartet of reliable arms – headed by veteran Cole Gilley – provided a more competitive approach on weekends as the staff tried to develop young players and fight through injuries on the bump.
Gilley had a career year after transferring to IU, working a 3.54 ERA with a 10-3 record. He became the first IU pitcher since Kyle Hart (2016) to win 10 games in a single season. Gilley was used in high-leverage situations and also had a save to his name on the year.
The Columbus, Ind. native was a Second Team All-Big Ten and an ABCA Midwest Second Team All-Region selection as a starting pitcher. He ended the season with three-straight quality starts and allowed just one earned run in 22 innings pitched during the month of May.
After a tough 2024 season, veteran southpaw Ryan Kraft rediscovered his electric form and became the defacto Friday starter for the Hoosiers. He finished top-5 in program history in appearances (82) and also collected 195 strikeouts over 192.2 career innings pitched.
Even after losing veteran reliever Drew Buhr for most of the season, Glant and the coaching staff got creative in its ability to close games. Redshirt senior Gavin Seebold picked up three saves on the year while graduate student Ben Grable ended the year with consecutive saves.
A strong campaign from his veteran pitchers culminated in Gilley and Grable being selected in the 10th and 11th rounds respectively in the 2025 MLB Draft. Gilley was taken by the Phillies before Grable wrapped up IU’s time in the draft by being picked by the Yankees.
Despite losing Luke Sinnard, Ben Grable and Matthew Bohnert for the season, three weekend caliber arms, the Hoosiers weathered some early struggles on the mound in 2024. A productive two-month stretch on the bump in April and May helped the program to a second-straight NCAA Tournament appearance.
Glant helped turn Ty Bothwell and Connor Foley into a pair of reliable starters on the mound. After an up-and-down start to his college career, Bothwell turned in his most complete season in 2024. He pitched 84.2 innings with 91 strikeouts to just 25 walks. He won seven games including the NCAA Tournament opener over Southern Miss.
Foley, an electric right-handed arm, became a starter for the first time in his career. He pitched to a 4.71 earned run average with 82 strikeouts in just 63 innings. He missed time due to a back injury but allowed opposing hitters to bat just .165 against him. He was a Second Team All-Big Ten selection.
Drew Buhr became an outstanding option out of the bullpen for IU under the tutelage of Glant. The Austin, Ind. native dropped his earned run average 8.12 in 2023 (Bellarmine) to 3.31 in 2024 (Indiana). He struck out 48 batters and allowed just 11 walks. He matched a team-high with 21 appearances on the mound.
The Hoosiers had three pitchers picked in the 2024 MLB Draft, part of a Big Ten-best six athletes selected from the program. Luke Sinnard (3rd), Connor Foley (5th) and Brayden Risedorph (20th) combined to make nearly two million dollars in signing bonus money.
Adding to a long history of early success in Bloomington, Jacob Vogel was named a First Team Freshman All-American by the NCBWA. He pitched in 21 games, throwing 23 innings and allowing just six earned runs. It marked the third pitcher in the last two years to earn Freshman All-American honors.
As a group, the Hoosiers totaled 589 strikeouts. The pitching staff was top-25 in the nation in both total strikeouts (589) and strikeouts-per-nine innings (10.1). In 14 games in the month of May, IU’s pitching staff produced a 3.78 earned run average to help the program to the postseason.
Glant helped oversee the development of starting pitcher Luke Sinnard into one of the nation’s most dominant strikeout forces in 2023. He set the Indiana single-season strikeout record with 114 punchouts which ranked No. 1 in the Big Ten and No. 16 in the NCAA.
Sinnard started 16 games on the mound, collecting six victories while holding opponents to three-or-fewer runs on 10 different occasions. IU’s 598 strikeouts as a team are second only to the 2022 team, also coached by Glant, in program history.
Ryan Kraft was named a First Team All-Big Ten relief pitcher after appearing in 21 games and collecting six victories and five saves. He finished the season with a 2.48 ERA while striking out 51 batters and holding opponents to just a .249 batting average.
In one season on campus, Glant helped the Indiana pitching staff continue a run of success in the Major League Baseball Draft, as well as establish a new program record for strikeouts in a season. The 600 strikeouts in 2022 rank atop the IU charts and are No. 2 in Big Ten history, behind Iowa’s 609 strikeouts during the same 2022 campaign.
In the MLB Draft, Indiana’s top two starting pitchers and top reliever were each selected in the 2022 event. The No. 1 starter on the staff, Jack Perkins, was picked in the fifth round by Oakland after posting 91 strikeouts to pace the team. Bradley Brehmer and Reese Sharp were taken in the 12th and 20th rounds, respectively, by Baltimore.
Professional Baseball (2020-21)
Glant spent a pair of seasons in the New York Yankees organization where he worked with the pitching staffs of the Stanton Island Yankees (2020) and Scranton/Wilkes-Barre RailRiders.
With the RailRiders, Glant – a former closer at Purdue – tutored one of the top relievers in the International League, Luis Garcia. The right-hander finished 11-for-11 in save opportunities during the 2021 season in 18 appearances. He finished with a 1-2 record and 19 strikeouts in 17 1/3 innings of work and finished the season with the St. Louis Cardinals.
As a staff, SWB finished No. 2 in the International League in strikeouts per 9 innings pitched (10.26), No. 3 in batting average against (.229) and wins (75), and No. 4 in ERA (3.79) in 2021. His first season with the Yankees organization was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which he was slated to work with the Stanton Island Yankees (A-Short Season).
Ball State Era (2013, 2017-19)
With two stints at Ball State, Glant served as a volunteer assistant coach (2013) and the pitching coach (2017-19) for the Cardinals. During his second stint with the program, Glant’s pitching staff set a then-NCAA record with 11.1 strikeouts per nine innings during the 2019 season.
The Cardinals set the single-season school record for strikeouts (489) in 2019 and own three of the top four marks in BSU history. Drey Jameson set single-season school records for strikeouts (146) and strikeouts per nine innings (14.33) during the 2019 campaign and John Baker finished his career No. 2 in career punchouts (270).
The 2019 Mid-American Conference pitcher of the year, Jameson left Ball State as one of the most decorated pitchers in program history. The 34th overall pick in the 2019 MLB Draft, Baker was a second-team All-American in 2019, a Freshman All-American in 2018 and became the 11th Cardinal in program history to earn first-team All-MAC honors multiple times in a career.
A Freshman All-American in 2017, Baker was also taken in the 2019 MLB Draft by the Miami Marlins in the 29th round. With Baker’s selection by the Marlins, Glant tutored five pitchers – six total selections – that were selected in the MLB Draft during his tenure in Muncie.
Early Coaching Career (2014-16)
After his first stint at Ball State in 2013, Glant served as the head coach at Mt. Vernon (Ind.) High School in 2014 and Lapel (Ind.) High School in 2015. He helped Lapel to the 2015 sectional title before accepting the head coaching position at Division III Anderson University.
Playing & Personal
Glant spent his time as a student-athlete at Purdue where he was a three-year letterwinner and drafted by Arizona in the seventh round of the 2003 MLB Draft after his junior season. A reliever in the Diamondback system, he moved all the way to Triple-A.
The right-hander appeared in 47 career games in West Lafayette and logged eight career saves, which ranked No. 4 on the career charts upon his departure and currently ranks No. 10 in program history.
He and his wife, Ashley, have one son, David, and one daughter, Evelyn.
