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Kevin McGowan returns to the Franklin Pierce University baseball program for his first season as an assistant coach in 2023. He will serve as the team's pitching coach.

One of two players in program annals to play in Major League Baseball (Baseball-Reference page), McGowan made eight appearances out of the bullpen for the 2017 New York Mets, where he posted a 5.19 ERA over 8.2 innings. He also made 200 minor league appearances on the mound, including 74 starts, over seven seasons, as he spent time with both the Mets and Wasington Nationals organizations, throwing nearly 600 innings in affiliated ball (minor league stats). In all, McGowan recorded 577 strikeouts in a professional baseball career which spanned 736 innings over nine seasons.

A three-year member of the Franklin Pierce pitching staff (bio), McGowan saved his best for last, as he ultimately settled into the third-starter role in a loaded 2013 rotation, which featured 13th-round draftee and Northeast-10 Conference Pitcher of the Year Trevor Graham as the ace and fellow future Major Leaguer Steve Hathaway as the number-two. McGowan made 13 starts for the eventual regional champions that spring, and recorded 60 strikeouts, against just 16 walks, on the way to a 3.20 ERA and a 7-2 record over 78.2 innings. Arguably the signature moment of his career came in the 2013 East Regional title game (game story), when he took the ball some 26 hours after throwing a complete game in an elimination contest and fired a pair of scoreless innings to kickstart a 5-1 victory over Wilmington (Del.). McGowan would be drafted by the Mets in the 13th round (386 overall) by the Mets in the 2013 MLB Draft, eight picks after Graham and 34 ahead of Hathaway.

McGowan originally hails from Nashua, N.H.