CHARLESTON – Charleston Southern announced the hiring of Kyle Sarazin on Tuesday morning to be a new assistant coach with the baseball program. He joins CSU after spending the past six seasons on the support staff at Virginia Tech where he most recently served as the Director of Player Development where he specialized in baseball technology and analytics.
 
"I am excited to become a Buccaneer," shared Sarazin. "Coach Kuhn showed me he is a program builder in the interview process to go along with the long list of accomplishments throughout his career. Between learning from him daily and building off last year's successes, I look forward to doing my part to make the Bucs a consistent contender in the Big South. Charleston Southern is a great school for student-athletes to come grow in the classroom, community and on the field while constantly strengthening their faith."
 
"We are elated that Kyle Sarazin will be joining our coaching staff," said Head Coach Karl Kuhn. "Kyle's Time spent in the ACC and his wealth of knowledge with data and analytics is very impressive. He will add a dynamic to our coaching staff that will further assist the coaching staff to better prepare our players' development plans as well as better our team for competition. We are excited to welcome Kyle and his wife Morgan to our Charleston Southern University Baseball family."
 
Sarazin got his first job in the industry when he joined the staff in Blacksburg in July of 2019 where he was the program's inaugural director of player development. Originally, he was tasked with advancing the team's analytics efforts as well as deriving coachable insights from baseball technologies. In the past few seasons, he has focused primarily on generating individualized reports geared toward expediting the player development process as well as assembling scouting reports.
 
While with the Hokies, he mirrored the technology operations commonly found at the professional level as he worked with data from Trackman, Synergy, Blast Motion, Win Reality and other devices. He led a team of student volunteers who assist in the program's data collection and report generation, many of whom have gone on to accept full-time MLB positions.
 
Through Sarazin's analyses, the Hokies have witnessed rapid statistical and competitive growth, highlighted by the program's 2022 ACC Coastal Division and NCAA Blacksburg Regional championships. Additionally, since his arrival, they produced six All-Americans, 15 All-ACC selections (six First-Team) and 21 MLB Draft picks.
 
During his time with the Hokies, he worked closely with the pitchers and their coach in pitch design and pitch utilization. In 2021, they set the program record for strikeouts (562) with the seventh-best strikeouts per nine innings mark (11.07) in the nation. In 2022, they led the ACC during conference play with a staff ERA of 4.52. This past season in 2025, they broke the strikeouts record again with 581 to tie for the 13^th-most in the NCAA that year.
 
In Virginia Tech's historic 2022 season, he played a key role with the team's offense and helped them to claim some of the top marks in the nation. They had the second-best slugging percentage (.574) – trailing only No. 1 national seed Tennessee – while ranking among the top 15 Division I squads in six additional offensive categories, including home runs per game (2.14 – fourth), doubles per game (2.37 – ninth), scoring (8.7 runs per game – 10th) and batting average (.309 – 11th).
 
Sarazin graduated from Elon in 2019 with his bachelor's degree in sport and event management with a minor in statistics. While there, he served as the director of analytics and video coordination with the baseball program, assisting in the Phoenix winning the 2019 CAA regular season championship courtesy of their 19-5 league record.
 
Previously, Sarazin held an internship with USA Baseball as its Trackman data and operations coordinator, having worked directly with the U-18 coaching staff and the program's director, Frank Jagoda. He also was part of the staff at the three-week MLB Prospect Development Pipeline League at IMG Academy in 2019.
 
A native of Massachusetts, Sarazin gained his start in analytics during internships he held with the Boston Bruins and the Pawtucket Red Sox. In March 2017, he was part of his school's Baseball Statistics & Analytics club's award-winning presentation at the Society of American Baseball Research Diamond Dollars competition – as judged by members of MLB team analytics departments – that compiled more than six million data points from 10 years' worth of data, transforming them into a user-friendly, input-output system.