| Mike Silva | |
| Current Title: | Head coach |
| Current Team: | Arkansas State |
| Current Conference: | Sun Belt |
| Alma Mater: | Northwestern Oklahoma State University |
| Player Years1: | 2001–2003 |
| Player Team1: | Northwestern Oklahoma State |
| Player Positions: | Catcher |
| Coach Years1: | 2003–2005 |
| Coach Team1: | Clarendon College (Asst) |
| Coach Years2: | 2006 |
| Coach Team2: | Bethany (KS) (Asst) |
| Coach Years3: | 2007–2009 |
| Coach Team3: | Clarendon College |
| Coach Years4: | 2010–2012 |
| Coach Team4: | Galveston College |
| Coach Years5: | 2013–2015 |
| Coach Team5: | Texas State (Asst) |
| Coach Years6: | 2016 |
| Coach Team6: | San Diego Padres (Area Scout) |
| Coach Years7: | 2017–2018 |
| Coach Team7: | Arkansas-Little Rock (P) |
| Coach Years8: | 2019–2021 |
| Coach Team8: | Louisiana Tech (AHC) |
| Coach Years9: | 2022–2024 |
| Coach Team9: | Nicholls |
| Coach Years10: | 2025–present |
| Coach Team10: | Arkansas State |
| Overall Record: | (NCAA)
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| Tournament Record: | Southland: 4–0 NCAA: 0–4 |
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Michael Silva is an American baseball coach and former catcher, who is the current head baseball coach of the Arkansas State Red Wolves.[1] He previously was head coach of the Nicholls State baseball team.[2] Silva has been a baseball coach in the South Central United States since 2003, after playing three years of college baseball at Northwestern Oklahoma State University.
Silva began his coaching career in 2003, as an assistant coach at Clarendon College and Bethany College. In 2007, Silva returned to Clarendon to accept his first head coaching position, later moving to Galveston College.
In 2013, Silva accepted his first Division I coaching position at Texas State. After a year scouting for the San Diego Padres in 2016, Silva would go on to coach at Arkansas-Little Rock and Louisiana Tech.
On July 9, 2021, Nicholls announced that Silva would become the program's head coach[3] after Seth Thibodeaux departed to take an assistant coaching position at Louisiana.[4]
On June 11, 2024, Arkansas State announced the hiring of Silva as the new head coach, replacing Tommy Raffo.[1]