RICHMOND, Ky. – Troy Squires and Logan Salow, who both played at the University of Kentucky, will join the Eastern Kentucky University baseball staff, new head coach Jan Weisberg announced today.
Squires, who will serve as EKU's hitting coach, spent the past four seasons on Gary Henderson's staff at the University of Utah. Squires served as a volunteer assistant in 2022 and 2023 before being elevated to assistant coach before the 2024 season.
Salow, the new pitching coach for the Colonels, spent the past two seasons on the staff at UK after concluding his professional career in 2023.
With the Utes, Squires assisted the hitters and catchers, in addition to working with team defense and overseeing the program's camps.
Squires helped Utah to one of its best seasons in program history in 2024. The team collected the second-most wins all-time and entered the national rankings. Offensively, the Utes set several PAC-12 era program records including batting average, runs scored, hits, total bases, slugging and on-base percentage. An average of seven runs per game was the program's most since 2006 and the third straight season that the scoring average increased from the season before. Squires mentored catcher Hunter Antillon who was behind the plate to catch for PAC-12 Pitcher of the Year Bryson Van Sickle and NCBWA Stopper of the Year contender Micah Ashman.
In 2019 and 2020, Squires was a graduate assistant coach at UK.
Squires hit .264 with 25 doubles, six home runs, 88 RBIs and 73 runs scored in 154 career games for the Wildcats between 2014 and 2018. He arrived at Kentucky as a walk-on bullpen catcher and ended his career as a 23rd round selection by the Toronto Blue Jays in the 2018 MLB Draft.
As a player at UK, Squires was part of two NCAA postseason teams – a regional appearance in 2014 and a trip to the Super Regionals in 2017. He was also inducted into the Kentucky Athletics Frank G. Ham Society of Character, which honors Wildcats who have shown an extraordinary commitment to academic excellence, athletic participation, personal development, career preparation and serving as a role model.
As a junior in 2017, Squires earned second team All-Southeastern Conference recognition after hitting .305 with a .427 on-base percentage, 10 doubles, 25 runs and 26 RBIs. He was chosen as the National Player of the Week by two organizations during his senior season.
Following his collegiate career, Squires spent the summer of 2018 playing professionally in the Blue Jays organization.
The Elizabethtown, Kentucky native earned a bachelor's degree in communications at UK in 2017 and a master's in sports leadership in 2020.
Salow joined the UK staff in 2024 as a graduate assistant and was promoted to director of scouting and analytics before the 2025 season. He was the lead video and statistical analysis for player development, with a primary focus on pitching performance and mechanics.
The Ashland, Kentucky native capped his 4-year playing career as a Wildcat with an outstanding senior season in 2017. He earned first team All-Southeastern Conference honors after recording 12 saves with a 1.95 ERA and 73 strikeouts in 55 1/3 innings. He limited opponents to a .188 batting average and tied the program record for most saves in a season.
The Oakland Athletics drafted Salow in the sixth round with the 171st overall pick of the 2017 MLB Draft. He opened his pro career in the Atheltics' organization before being traded in 2018 to the Los Angeles Dodgers where he advanced to Triple-A. In five seasons of professional baseball, Salow went 14-7 with a 2.76 ERA and 10 saves in 141 appearances. He struck out 245 batters in 186 innings and held opponents to a .191 average.
Salow earned a bachelor's of arts degree in kinesiology exercise science at UK in 2017.
Weisberg was selected as EKU's new head coach in May. In 19 seasons as a head coach, he has compiled a record of 595-253-1 for a winning percentage of .701. Weisberg has led his teams to 14 conference titles, nine NCAA Regional appearances, three trips to the NCAA Super Regionals and two College World Series (2019, 2024) appearances. His teams have won 30 or more games in 12 of the last 16 seasons. He has produced five Academic All-America selections, three NCAA Gold Glove winners, 15 All-America honorees, one National Pitcher and one National Player of the Year, and has coached four MLB Draft picks.
