The Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils baseball team is a varsity intercollegiate athletic team of Mississippi Valley State University in Itta Bena, Mississippi, United States. The team is a member of the Southwestern Athletic Conference, which is part of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's Division I. The team plays its home games at Magnolia Field in Itta Bena, Mississippi. C. J. Bilbrey is the team's head coach starting in the 2024 season.
History Fourteen-year head coach Doug Shanks retired on November 12, 2014. After serving as an assistant to Shanks for all 14 seasons, Aaron Stevens was promoted to head coach on December 2, 2014. On the heels of back-to-back win-less seasons in 2020 and 2021, Stevens was not retained for the 2022 season. On July 27, 2021, Stanley Stubbs was named the head coach of the Delta Devils. With the Delta Devils improving by 10 wins over the previous season, Stubbs had done a good job helping turn around the Delta Devils fortunes, but he resigned due to health concerns on June 15, 2022. On August 11, 2022, Milton Barney Jr. was named the head coach of the Delta Devils. The school hired C. J. Brilbrey on July 21, 2023.
Head coaches 1957–1960 Jay Hawkins 4 9–9 1975–1977 Clinton Vasser 3 33–34–1 1978–2000 Cleotha Wilson 23 276–575–5 2001–2014 Doug Shanks 14 253–471 2015–2021 Aaron Stevens 7 39–183–1 2022 Stanley Stubbs 1 10–31–1 2023 Milton Barney Jr. 1 15–37 2024–present C. J. Bilbrey 1 12–34 Totals 8 coaches 54 seasons 647–1,374–8
Major League Baseball Mississippi Valley State has had 15 Major League Baseball draft selections since the draft began in 1965. Delta Devils in the Major League Baseball DraftYearNameRoundTeam 1966 28 Red Sox 1981 18 Athletics 1981 14 Red Sox 1983 31 Tigers 1984 28 Expos 1985 8 Reds 1986 12 Athletics 1988 52 White Sox 1988 19 White Sox 1998 24 Brewers 1998 18 Brewers 2003 24 Cardinals 2006 13 Phillies 2009 14 Rockies 2015 33 Blue Jays
Notable players Zach Penprase, Israeli-American baseball player for the Israel national team
See also List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
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