As if the 2023 season could not get any worse for Northwestern baseball, the third week of the season did not start nor end on the right foot.
On Feb. 27, D1 Baseball’s Kendall Rogers reported that pitching coach Jon Strauss, director of operations Chris Beacom and hitting coordinator and recruiting coordinator Dusty Napoleon have stepped away from the program. While Inside NU has not independently confirmed the report, their departure would leave the ‘Cats with only head coach Jim Foster and volunteer coach Adrian Santiago as the last remaining members of the coaching staff. Napoleon and Beacom were rollovers from former Wildcats’ head coach Spencer Allen’s coaching staff, but Strauss was brought to Evanston by Coach Foster in the offseason after spending the past seven seasons in the same position for Baylor.