Claggett is in his third season at Wichita State after joining the Shockers on June 20, 2023. He was promoted to assistant head coach on September 27, 2024. Claggett has worked alongside head coach Brian Green as Green's pitching coach for each of the last eight seasons, including four at Washington State and two at New Mexico State.
Claggett helped the Shockers to a 32-29 record in his first season as pitching coach in 2024, guiding the Wichita State arms to a 5.07 ERA that ranked second in the American Athletic Conference. Working with a pitching staff that returned just four pitchers and 71.1 total innings from the year prior, Claggett and the Shockers also finished top three in the AAC in hits allowed per nine innings (8.73) and WHIP (1.49).
While with the Cougars, Claggett oversaw a staff that established a new program record for strikeouts in each of the last two seasons, capped off by 518 punchouts in 2023. Washington State ranked 17th nationally with 10.3 strikeouts per nine innings and 15th nationally with a 2.76:1 strikeout-to-walk ratio. Cougar pitchers issued 3.72 walks per nine innings, the 35th-best rate in the country. Over his three full seasons in Pullman, Claggett's pitching staffs recorded more strikeouts and fewer walks each season.
Claggett joined the Washington State program in 2020, inheriting a pitching staff coming off a 7.20 ERA the year prior. In the COVID-shortened 2020 campaign he helped slice more than three full runs off the team ERA to 3.94, kick-starting a run of four straight seasons above .500, the first such stretch of success for the Cougars since 2006-10.
Claggett developed a pair of MLB draft picks from his 2021 pitching staff, right-handers Zane Mills (4th round, St. Louis Cardinals) and Brandon White (12th round, Miami Marlins). Mills' selection was the highest a Washington State pitcher has been drafted since 2011.
In two seasons at New Mexico State, Claggett helped the Aggies to an NCAA regional appearance in 2018 behind a pitching staff that featured a trio of all-conference arms and recorded a school-record 537 strikeouts. Left-hander Jonathan Groff was named WAC Pitcher of the Year, becoming the first Aggies hurler in program history to claim conference Pitcher of the Year honors. Righty Kyle Bradish became the highest-drafted pitcher in program history when he was selected in the 4th round of the MLB draft by the Baltimore Orioles, where he is currently a member of their starting rotation.
Prior to New Mexico State, Claggett spent time on the coaching staffs at San Jose State, Riverside Community College and College of the Desert, plus one season in professional baseball with the independent New Jersey Jackals.
As a player, Claggett made three appearances at the major league level in 2009 with the New York Yankees and Pittsburgh Pirates as part of an 11-year professional career. He was an 11th round draft pick by the Detroit Tigers out of UC Riverside, where he was both a pitcher and infielder.
Claggett and his wife, Ashleigh, have a son, Maddox.
