Andy Kimball
Andy Kimball
  • Year:
    2022
  • Sports:
    Baseball

Bio

Andy Kimball was an elite pitcher for the UW-Oshkosh baseball team from 1995-97 before being selected by the Oakland Athletics in the fifth round of the 1997 Major League Baseball First-year Draft.

Kimball was a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division III All-American twice during his three seasons with the Titans, earning Second Team honors in 1996 and First Team accolades
in 1997. Kimball, the 1997 Wisconsin Intercollegiate Athletic Conference South Division Pitcher of the Year, was voted to the Division III All-Region First Team and the WIAC South Division First Team in both 1996 and 1997.

Kimball pitched in 30 contests for UW-Oshkosh and compiled a 23-2 career record with 225 strikeouts, 20 complete games and a 2.40 earned run average in 202.2 innings pitched. He currently ranks seventh in WIAC history in earned run average, ninth in complete games, 13th in strikeouts and 16th in victories.

Kimball appeared in seven games in 1995 and tallied a 5-0 record with 29 strikeouts and a 2.48 earned run average in 40 innings pitched. The following season he pitched in 14 contests and posted an 11-1 record with 97 strikeouts and a 2.41 earned run average in 89.2 innings of work. In 1997 Kimball appeared in nine games and registered a 7-1 record with 99 strikeouts and a 2.34 earned run average in 73 innings pitched.

Kimball is the owner of five career shutouts, including a nine-inning, two-hit victory (4-0) over California Lutheran University during the 1996 Division III World Series.

Kimball, an Oshkosh West High School alumnus, helped UW-Oshkosh produce a 101-21 record from 1995-97 as the Titans won the WIAC South Division all three seasons and reached the Division III World Series twice, finishing third in the nation in 1995 with a 39-5 record and fourth in 1996 with a 35-6 mark.

Kimball, who was selected to the WIAC All-Centennial Baseball Team in 2012, compiled a 29-29 record with 364 strikeouts in 392.2 innings pitched during five minor league seasons with the Oakland Athletics (1997-2000) and Milwaukee Brewers (2001) organizations.

Since 2011 Kimball has been a machine programmer/operator at Mathfab LLC in Oshkosh. He previously spent 10 years as an account merchandiser for the Pepsi-Cola Bottling Company of Oshkosh.

Kimball lives in Appleton with wife, Kimberly, and daughters Ryann and Emerly.