Bobby Andrews - Assistant Coach - Baseball Coaches

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Bobby Andrews

Title:
Assistant Coach
Email:
bobby.andrews@csun.edu

Bobby Andrews enters his fourth season as an assistant coach and recruiting coordinator to the CSUN Baseball team in 2024-25.

Since Andrews has joined CSUN, the Matadors have registered a 96-63 overall record and 53-37 record in The Big West in three seasons. CSUN has also posted three consecutive 30-win seasons for the first time since 1996-98.

In 2023, the Matadors notched their most wins (34) and best Big West finish (second place) in 21 seasons. CSUN finished a mere tiebreaker away from an NCAA Tournament berth.

Andrews helped mentor a Matador offense that led the Big West in batting average (.311) as well in 2023. CSUN would pace the league with 69 stolen bases while the team finished second in runs (388), hits (552), RBI (360), slugging percentage (.472) and on-base percentage (.396). For the second-straight season, CSUN had the fewest strikeouts in the conference (.371).

In Andrews' first season at CSUN, the Matadors posted a 32-win season and a 17-13 mark in the Big West, placing fourth in the league standings. The Matadors also finished in the top five in The Big West in a host of categories including batting average (fourth, .270), home runs (fourth, 44) and runs (fifth, 311). CSUN also struck out the least amount of times of any Big West team.

Andrews joined the Matadors after spending the previous two seasons at USC as the team's volunteer assistant coach. Working under head coach Jason Gill, Andrews primarily worked with the Trojans' outfielders and hitters. In two seasons, Andrews helped USC post a 31-25 overall record including a 10-5 mark in the shortened 2020 season.

Prior to USC, Andrews also worked for Gill at Loyola Marymount for seven seasons from 2013-19 in a variety of roles. Andrews began working as the team's director of baseball operations before moving into a volunteer assistant coaching role in 2014. He was promoted to assistant coach in 2017 and spent his final three seasons in that position. Andrews helped guide LMU to the program's first postseason appearance in 19 seasons in 2019 after winning the West Coast Conference.

Before his coaching career, Andrews played six years professionally including four years in the Baltimore Orioles organization. Andrews appeared in 327 career games at the pro ranks, reaching as high as the Double-A level. He produced 254 hits, 170 runs scored, 91 RBI, 84 stolen bases, 34 doubles, 10 triples and seven home runs in his professional career.

As a collegiate player, Andrews lettered three seasons with Cal State Fullerton from 2003-05 including two seasons when former CSUN head coach Dave Serrano was a member of the coaching staff. Primarily playing in right field, Andrews was a starter on the Titans' 2004 National Championship team. He batted .325 with 21 runs and 15 RBI that season. A year later, he would be selected in the seventh round of the 2005 MLB First-Year Player Draft by the Baltimore Orioles.

Andrews was also a standout player at Rancho Buena Vista School. He helped his team win a Division I CIF championship in 2002. He was named High School Male Athlete of the Year as a senior.

Andrews earned a degree in communications with an emphasis in entertainment studies from Cal State Fullerton in 2010.