Ben Orloff

Biography

The Orloff File 2021, 2025 Big West Coach of the Year 2009 Brooks Wallace Award Winner All-American - 2007, 2008, 2009 2009 Big West Player of the Year Ben Orloff enters his eighth year atop the Anteater baseball program as head coach and 13th season with the program for the 2024-25 school year. Orloff assumed the reins of UC Irvine Baseball in July of 2018 as the ninth head coach in program history. Orloff initially joined the coaching staff in 2014 as an assistant rising to associate head coach in the five years since. In his first year in 2019, he took the team to a second-place finish in the Big West going 37-17 overall with 21 home wins. Under coach Orloff, there have been 33 Anteaters to go pro driving the program total to 176 in UC Irvine history, 146 via the draft and 30 as free agents. The 2025 class featured a program best with four players taken within the first 10 rounds for a second straight season. The Anteaters returned to the postseason stage in 2021 reaching the NCAA Tournament for the first time in his coaching career, ninth time in Division I, and 14th time in program history. The team was crowned Big West champions winning an all-time conference record 32 games. UCI finished with an overall record of 43-18 reaching the Stanford Regional taking the hosts to the Regional Final. His efforts scored his first Big West Coach of the Year accolade, the fourth for the program and third since joining the Big West. Among the Anteaters superlatives were ABCA All-Ameri