Ben Andrews

Benjamin Tony Andrews

• Bats Right, Throws Right
• Height 6' 3", Weight 215 lb.

• School Linfield College
• High School Shorewood High School

• Born August 11, 1995 in London England

Biographical Information

Ben Andrews has played in the Bundesliga and for the Great Britain national team.

He was born in London but grew up in Washington State. He was a baseball and basketball star in high school. He was 9 for 26 with two doubles and a walk as a college freshman, then hit .303/.352/.385 as a sophomore, .386/.453/.671 as a junior (43 R, 39 RBI in 40 G) and .360/.482/.589 as a senior (20 2B, 40 RBI in 45 G). He set the school career record with 53 doubles.

In 2018, he signed with Germany's Solingen Alligators; having a UK passport, he did not count as a foreign player (Germany's Bundesliga did not count EU passport holders as foreign players). He hit .389/.504/.639 with 33 runs in 28 games and fielded .933 at third base. He was 3rd in the Bundesliga-1 north in average (after Wilson Lee and Justin Brock), 5th in homers (5), tied Brock for the most hits (42), 3rd in doubles (10, trailing Lee and Maik Ehmcke), 2nd in runs (one behind teammate Daniel Sánchez), tied for 6th in walks (19), tied for first in times plunked (6), 4th in slugging (between Lee and Maikel Azcuy), 3rd in OBP, 4th in OPS (between Maurice Wilhelm and Azcuy) and first in fielding at 3B (.012 ahead of Timo Stock).

Andrews hit .487 and slugged .757 in the South Australia League in the winter of 2018-2019. Back with Solingen for '19, he had another solid season (but the German Baseball and Softball Federation is missing the 2019 Bundesliga-1 north stats as of 11/9/2020 - and has been missing them all year).

He made Great Britain's team for the 2019 European Championship, thanks to his London birth there. He flew out against Orlando Yntema in his first at-bat but had a solid tournament at .229/.357/.429, including a 3-run homer off Alon Leichman of Israel. He drove in 7 runs in 9 games, while fielding .968 at 3B. He also scored three in the win over Austria in the 9th/10th place game. <ref> 2019 European Championship