Staff Directory
- Title:
- Assistant Coach/Pitching & Catching
- Email:
- Phone:
- (812) 855-9155
Denton Sagerman completed his seventh season on head coach Jeff Mercer’s staff during the 2025 season. He came to Bloomington with Mercer from Wright State and is the lone remaining member of Mercer’s initial staff at Indiana. The longtime Director of Operations, Sagerman was promoted to Assistant Coach – Pitching & Catching on July 1, 2025.
As an assistant coach, Sagerman is responsible for building individualized player development plans for both the hitters and pitchers with the use of analytics and high speed video. He works closely with pitching coach Dustin Glant on Pitch Design and mechanical breakdowns to asset with the development of the pitchers.
While also leveraging his background in strength and conditioning, Sagerman also works to access movement quality and potential drills/interventions from the use of biomechanics software and force plate/mound data to optimize player performance.
From a pitch design perspective, he works to incorporate his knowledge of seam-shifted wake, seam-orientation and use of analytics to help optimize pitchers arsenal’s. From the catching side, Sagerman works to build catching development plans to assist head coach Jeff Mercer in working with the catchers.
The former collegiate pitcher also works closely with pitching coach Dustin Glant assisting him with pitch design, video analysis, TrackMan and Rapsodo. Sagerman has been instrumental in bullpen development while working with both pitchers and catchers to get players ready in a timely manner.
Prior to Indiana, Sagerman served as the director of baseball operations/analytics at Wright State University, under head coach Jeff Mercer. He also focused on analytics and its uses in player development.
Before joining Mercer at WSU, Sagerman worked as an aerospace engineer at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base with a specialization in computational fluid dynamics. During his time with WPAFB, Sagerman was the varsity baseball coach at Centerville High School.
A two-time graduate from the University of Dayton, Sagerman owns his bachelor (2015) and master (2017) of engineering as well as a Master's of Sports and Athletic Administration from Gonzaga University (2018). He was a two-time letter winner with the Flyers' baseball program and was part of the 2012 Atlantic 10 Championship team.
