Andrew Moritz enters his second season on the Navy baseball staff as the director of operations in 2027, also assisting in hitters’ and outfielders’ development.
In Moritz’s first season, the 2026 Navy team posted the program’s first 30-win season since 2019, beat service academy rival Air Force and earned a Patriot League semifinals berth for the third-straight season. Navy saw an increased emphasis on offensive aggressiveness, setting the single-season and single-game program records for stolen bases, while also establishing a new team single-game record for hit-by-pitches. Additionally, Navy’s 4.06 team ERA ranked 13th in Division I, while the team’s five shutouts ranked 16th in the NCAA, the Mids’ 18 triples landed 18th and Navy’s 132 steals stood 19th nationally.
Headlined by Brady Bendik being crowned the 2026 Patriot League Pitcher of the Year, Moritz helped the Mids earn four first-team all-league selections and three second-team picks. With Bendik, Archibald and breakout outfielder Chris Klug highlighting the first team, Victor Izquierdo and Evan Brown were among those named to the All-Patriot League Second Team after anchoring the Mids’ infield.
Moritz arrived in Annapolis in June 2025.after spending the 2025 season as an assistant coach at Division II Missouri Western, helping produce three All-MIAA selections during his lone year with the Griffons. He also previously spent time as an assistant coach at his alma-mater, Providence High School, in Charlotte, N.C.
Prior to Missouri Western, Moritz spent six years playing professional baseball, including parts of five seasons within the Atlanta Braves organization. Drafted in the sixth round of the 2018 MLB Draft by the Braves, Moritz reached as high as Double-A Mississippi, where he was named Southern League Player of the Week on Sept. 11, 2022 and was selected as an MiLB Organizational All-Star for the 2022 season.
Collegiately, Moritz played three seasons at UNC-Greensboro for now-Florida State head coach Link Jarrett. With the Spartans, Moritz collected numerous national accolades, including an impressive 2018 campaign that saw him named an ABCA/Rawlings First Team All-American, a D1Baseball.com Second Team All-American and a Baseball America and Perfect Game/Rawlings Third Team All-American. Additionally, Moritz was a three-time All-Southern Conference selection, the 2018 Southern Conference Player of the Year, a 2017 NCAA Clemson Regional All-Tournament Team honoree and a 2016 Louisville Slugger Freshman All-American.
In the classroom, the Charlotte, N.C. native was named a CoSIDA First-Team Academic All-American in 2017 and took home Second-Team Academic All-America distinction in 2018.
Moritz also spent the 2017 summer playing for the Cape Cod League’s Harwich Mariners alongside former Navy ace Noah Song.
A 2021 graduate of UNCG, Moritz earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration.
