Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils baseball

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Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils
Baseball current event.svg 2025 Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils baseball team
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University Mississippi Valley State University
Head coach CJ Bilbrey (1st season)
Conference SWAC
East Division
Location Itta Bena, Mississippi
Home stadium Magnolia Field
(Capacity: 200)
Nickname Delta Devils
ColorsForest green and white [1]
   
Regular season conference champions
2005, 2006

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. [2] 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. CJ Bilbrey is the team's head coach starting in the 2024 season.

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History

Fourteen-year head coach Doug Shanks retired on November 12, 2014. [3] After serving as an assistant to Shanks for all 14 seasons, Aaron Stevens was promoted to head coach on December 2, 2014. [4] On the heels of back-to-back win-less seasons in 2020 and 2021, Stevens was not retained for the 2022 season. [5] On July 27, 2021, Stanley Stubbs was named the head coach of the Delta Devils. [6] 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 on June 15, 2022, head coach he resigned due to health concerns. [7] On August 11, 2022, Milton Barney Jr. was named the head coach of the Delta Devils. [8]

Head coaches

SeasonCoachYearsRecordPct.
1975–1977Clinton Vasser333–34–1.493
1978–2000Cleotha Wilson23276–575–5.325
2001–2014 Doug Shanks 14253–471.349
2015–2021 Aaron Stevens 739–183–1.177
2022 Stanley Stubbs 110–31–1.250
Totals5 coaches48 seasons611–1,294–8.321

Major League Baseball

Mississippi Valley State has had 15 Major League Baseball Draft selections since the draft began in 1965. [9]

Notable players

Signed free agent contract with Boston Red Sox 1987. Son of Former MLB All-Star George “Boomer” Scott. MVP Empire State League 1987

See also

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References

  1. ↑ MVSU Style Guide (PDF). July 1, 2015. Retrieved April 9, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Mississippi Valley State Delta Devils". d1baseball.com. Archived from the original on 2014-03-21. Retrieved 2014-01-29.
  3. ↑ "Mississippi Valley State's Doug Shanks Retires". College Baseball Daily. November 12, 2014. Retrieved November 12, 2014.
  4. ↑ "Stevens named MVSU head baseball coach". www.mvsusports.com. Mississippi Valley State University. December 2, 2014. Retrieved September 6, 2018.
  5. ↑ Michael Coker (May 23, 2021). "Mississippi Valley State Head Baseball Coach Relieved of Duties". www.blackcollegenines.com. Black College Nines. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
  6. ↑ Michael Coker (July 27, 2021). "Stanley Stubbs Becomes New Mississippi Valley State University Baseball Head Coach". www.blackcollegenines.com. Black College Nines. Retrieved December 15, 2021.
  7. ↑ Michael Coker (June 15, 2022). "Mississippi Valley State Head Baseball Coach Stanley Stubbs Steps Down". www.blackcollegenines.com. Black College Nines. Retrieved August 15, 2022.
  8. ↑ "Milton Barney Tabbed To Lead MVSU Baseball Program". www.mvsusports.com. Mississippi Valley State University. August 11, 2022. Retrieved August 18, 2022.
  9. ↑ "MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "Mississippi Valley State University (Itta Bena, MS)"". Baseball-Reference.com . Retrieved 2015-06-14.


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