Cory Popham

Cory Popham

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Biographical Information

Cory Popham attended the University of the Pacific and earned an undergraduate degree in history and a graduate degree in sports management. Popham was a pitcher for the Tigers from 2011-2015.

After leaving college, Popham coached baseball in a number of different venues. He briefly coached the Sea Beggars of Providence Christian College in the fall of 2015. He was an assistant coach at Maranatha High School (Pasadena) in 2016-2017 as well as holding other short-term positions. His coaching career solidified when he joined Post University in August 2017 as their pitching coach and he remained there through 2018.

Popham' career took another step forward in 2019 when the Toronto Blue Jays hired him as an assistant pitching coach for the DSL Blue Jays. In 2020, he was promoted to a dual role of GCL Blue Jays pitching coach and pitching programs coordinator. Unfortunately, the 2020 minor league system was cancelled due to COVID-19. Popham worked as the Blue Jays' Pitching Development Coordinator in 2021-2022, sharing the role with Matt Tracy. In 2023, Popham worked as the Blue Jays' Minor League Pitching Coordinator, a role he continued into 2024 until the Blue Jays dismissed him on September 1st. Charles Kime, a writer for Jays Journal, noted that the 2024 Blue Jays roster did not have a single homegrown pitcher on their staff at the time of Popham's dismissal.[1] How much responsibility Popham held for that situation is open to question.

Apparently, the Baltimore Orioles did not think he bore too much responsibility as they hired Popham in 2025 to be their Complex Pitching Development Coordinator.