Andrew Shaps enters his second season on the Nevada Baseball staff as the team's Director of Player Development in 2025.
Shaps, an outfielder and left-handed pitcher who played for Nevada head coach Jake McKinley at William Jessup in 2018, became the first MLB June Amateur Draft pick in Warriors history when he was selected in the 31st round by the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2018.
Shaps has played six seasons (2018-23) of professional baseball prior to his arrival in Reno. The Paradise Valley, Ariz., native went on to play four seasons (2018-19, 2021-22) in the Dodgers organization before closing 2022 in the Detroit Tigers system. Shaps spent the 2023 campaign with the Winnipeg Goldeyes of the American Association of Professional Baseball.
In his lone season at William Jessup, Shaps played in 31 games, batting .453 with a homer, six doubles, and 13 RBIs, and going 1-1 with 19 strikeouts over 14.1 innings of work spanning six mound appearances. Despite an early-season injury which curtailed his plate appearances, made pinch-running appearances for the Warriors in addition to his six outings on the mound.
He spent his first three collegiate seasons (2015-17) at Arizona State, being named All-Pac-12 Honorable Mention in 2016. That season, he posted a .321 average with 18 extra-base hits, 27 RBI and 29 runs scored, and ranked ninth in the Pac-12 with 68 hits. He also was named to the Fort Worth All-Regional Team that postseason.
