Early Friday night, barely five hours since he had been introduced as Mississippi State’s 17th athletic director, John Cohen stood in front of the baseball team that he spent so many years putting together and took a turn making an introduction of his own. This is the best man to lead this program, Cohen said as he stepped aside to make room for Andy Cannizaro, the newest head coach of Mississippi State baseball.
Cannizaro has spent a lifetime around baseball, working as the hitting coach and recruiting coordinator at LSU the last two seasons after working for five years as a scout for the New York Yankees, where he was responsible for drafting and signing former Bulldogs Jacob Lindgren and Jonathan Holder.