Daniel Jaffe joined the Pacific staff on Dec. 1, 2020 after two seasons as a volunteer assistant coach with Georgia Tech under head coach Danny Hall.
As a whole, the Yellow Jackets blasted back on the national scene in 2019, winning 43 games, a program-record 10-straight series and nine-straight Atlantic Coast Conference series, and capped it by being named the No. 3 National Seed and the host of the 2019 NCAA Atlanta Regional. Under Jaffe’s tutelage, Georgia Tech continued to be “Catcher U” as Kyle McCann transformed into one of the top catchers in the country and a finalist for the Johnny Bench/Buster Posey Award in 2019. McCann started hot and stayed hot at the plate, hitting .299 for 66 hits, 12 doubles, a whopping 23 home runs and 70 RBI. McCann was selected in the fourth round of the 2019 MLB Draft by the Oakland A’s.
Prior to his time with Georgia Tech, Jaffe spent more than six years on the scouting trail and as an elite catching instructor across the country and made an immediate impact behind the plate.
Jaffe also worked as an associate scout for the San Diego Padres, working in the Las Vegas/Henderson area. Additionally, he evaluated top collegiate players in the Cape Cod League, where he worked with the Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox as the catching coach, leading the instruction of catchers from across the country and creating all scouting reports.
Jaffe also coached the catchers at College of Southern Nevada, where the Coyote’s catching corps led the Scenic West Athletic Conference in caught-stealing percentage, fielding percentage and fewest passed balls en route to a 2017 Junior College World Series appearance. Before CSN, Jaffe also coached as an assistant at Arbor View High School (2015-16), LVBA Cardinals/Dodgers Elite Scout Team (2014-2019) and the Las Vegas Baseball Academy (2012-2019).
A Las Vegas native, Jaffe began his college baseball career in the Big East Conference at Villanova before transferring his sophomore year to the College of Southern Nevada, where he became a co-captain. Jaffe then transfered to Pacific University (Ore.) where he was a two-year captain for the Boxers.
He graduated from Pacific University in 2014 with a bachelor’s of science degree in politics and government, and he earned his master’s in sports management from Texas A&M in 2015.
