Biography
Honors
• Second-Team NCBWA All-America (2018)
• Second-Team ABCA All-Midwest Region (2018)
• First-Team All-MVC (2018 and 2019)
• Collegiate Baseball Preseason All-America (2019)
• MVC Player of the Week (March 5, 2018; April 9, 2018; April 23, 2018)
• MVC Scholar-Athlete Team (2018)
• MVC Commissioner’s Academic Honor Roll (2018)
2019: Millas earned first-team All-Missouri Valley Conference honors for the second consecutive season after hitting .275 with five homers and 25 RBIs ... Registered a career-best streak of 22-consecutive games reaching base safely via a hit, walk or hit by pitch from April 2-May 10 ... Recorded at least one hit in 32 of the Bears' final 40 contests, batting .301 with all five of his home runs and 20 RBIs, while posting 49 hits and 10 doubles ... Logged 15 multi-hit efforts on the season and 42 for his three-year career ... Produced a team-leading four game-winning RBIs, totaling 12 for his MSU career ... Turned in his first two-hit game of the season Feb. 24 vs. Fresno State before missing the ensuing six games due to injury ... Went 2-for-5 with two runs scored in an 11-2 win at Oral Roberts (March 13), then drew four walks and scored two runs in the Bears' 11-8 win at Oklahoma two days later ... Belted his first home run of the season in game two of MSU's series at OU (March 16) to kick off an eight-game hit streak (March 16-29), over which he hit .323 with a pair of homers ... Recorded back-to-back two-hit performances vs. a pair of Top 25 clubs, March 24 at UC Santa Barbara and March 26 vs. Arkansas ... Delivered a walk-off RBI double in the 11th inning of the Bears' MVC-opening victory over Indiana State (March 29) ... Started a career-best nine-game hit streak April 2 at SEMO, going 3-for-4 with a double, a triple and two RBIs; drove in at least one run in four-straight games (April 2-6) as part of MSU's season-best four-game win streak ... Hit .325 (13-for-40) over the course of his hit streak ... Drove in a career-high four runs in an April 18 win over New Orleans, finishing 2-for-4 with a home run and two runs scored to kick off a three-game series in which he batted .545 (6-for-11) ... Went 3-for-8 as part of the Bears' doubleheader sweep of eventual MVC co-champ DBU (May 4), handing MSU its third-straight regular-series win over the Patriots ... Registered his second three-hit effort of the year May 12 at Evansville, then homered and drove home two runs as part of a 2-for-5 day vs. Valparaiso (May 17) ... Finished his season with a bang at the MVC Championship with hits if five of his final six trips to the plate (May 22-23); went 4-for-5 with a home run and double in the Bears' season finale vs. Southern Illinois (May 23).
2018: Produced a breakout sophomore campaign, hitting .321 with seven home runs and a team-best 61 RBIs en route to earning second-team All-America recognition from the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association, as well as first-team All-MVC honors ... In addition to leading the Bears in hitting and RBIs, also totaled a team-best 68 hits to rank 10th in the MVC; also ranked among the league’s top 15 players in hitting, on-base percentage (.416), RBIs, triples (2), total bases (106), walks (34) and sacrifice flies (5) ... Recorded 18 multi-hit performances, including 10 during league play, as well as 18 multi-RBI efforts ... Hit .346 in MVC action, which was good for fifth overall among all Valley hitters; his .605 slugging percentage ranked sixth, while his 24 RBIs was tied for third during conference play ... Reached base safely in each of his final 14 regular-season MVC contests (April 21-May 19), hitting .407 (22-for-54) to help the Bears go 12-2 over the same stretch ... Recorded multi-hit performances in seven of eight Valley games from April 21-May 6 ... Logged a career-best six-game hit streak from Feb. 25-March 9, batting .550 (11-for-20) and driving in at least one run in all six contests (11 total) ... Delivered the first of his three four-hit games of the season at No. 24 ECU (March 3) to help the Bears to a regular-season road win over a ranked foe for the first time since 2015; also drove in two runs for the third game in a row ... Followed that effort with back-to-back two-hit games against Pepperdine (March 4) and Oklahoma State (March 7), then plated three runs in a win over another nationally-ranked opponent in Arkansas State (March 9) ... Named MVC Player of the Week for the first of three times in 2018 on March 5 ... Drove in a career-best four runs on March 13 to power MSU past Oral Roberts (March 13); clubbed the go-ahead three-run homer in the bottom of the seventh, then delivered the game-tying single in the ninth as part of an eventual 6-5 Bears win ... Went 3-for-3 with three runs scored to match personal bests in each category as part of the Bears’ 14-2 win over Seton Hall (March 17) ... Turned in two more multi-RBI games in wins over SEMO (March 20) and Murray State (March 21) ... Tripled and drove in three runs in a 12-2 win at Kansas (March 27) ...Went 6-for-12 with six RBIs in a three-game sweep of Evansville (April 6-8) to earn his second MVC Player of the Week nod ... Logged a pair of four-hit games against two of the top pitching staffs in the nation, going 4-for-5 vs. eventual national champ Oregon State (April 13), then logged four more hits at Arkansas (April 17) ... Accrued four multi-hit outings in a five-game stretch, April 21-28, batting .526 (10-for-19) with eight RBIs against Illinois State, Mizzou and Bradley ... Produced another strong MVC series at Valparaiso (May 4-6), going 7-for-13 with a homer and three RBIs in the sweep ... Logged at least one hit and one RBI in each of his final five regular-season MVC games to help the Bears to their second-straight Valley crown ... Scored the winning run in MSU’s walkoff NCAA Oxford Regional win over Saint Louis (June 3) and recorded RBIs in two of the Bears’ three postseason contests ... Picked up ABCA All-Midwest Regional (second team) and MVC Scholar-Athlete Team laurels at the conclusion of the season ... Batted .261 in 28 games over the summer with the Wareham Gatemen of the prestigious Cape Cod Baseball League.
2017: Appeared in 51 games for the Bears as a true freshman, with Missouri State logging an impressive 27-12 mark in his 39 starts behind the plate ... Batted .224 with a home run and 29 RBIs, the latter of which led all MiVC rookies in 2017 ... Hit .269 in 13 MVC games, logging multi-hit performances in six outings and multi-RBI efforts in three contests during league play ... Batted a team-best .500 (4-for-8) as a pinch hitter ... Delivered a two-run double for his first collegiate hit and RBIs in his first start as a Bear vs. Stony Brook (Feb. 18) ...Recorded hits in each of his first five starts (Feb. 18-March 1); hit .421 (8-for-19) over a season-best five-game hit streak (Feb. 21-March 1) ... Also drove in runs in each of the five games on his hit streak and in six of his first seven games as a Bear overall ... Came off the bench to deliver key hits in a Bears rally at Belmont (Feb. 24), tying the game with a clutch RBI single in the top of the eighth of an eventual 7-5 MSU victory ... Blasted his lone home run of the season the following day at Lipscomb, launching the game-winning solo shot to right field in the top of the 11th inning to cap a career-best 3-for-5 afternoon ... Doubled and drove in two more runs to finish off the Bears' three-game sweep of the Mule Mix Classic with a 5-0 win at Middle Tennessee (Feb. 26) ... Posted run-scoring singles at Arkansas State (March 1) and vs. Central Arkansas (March 5) ... Turned in a two-hit effort in which he drove in a pair of runs at Central Michigan (March 24) ... Reached safely in four of his five trips to the plate in his first MVC game against Bradley (March 31), going 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI, a walk and a HBP ... Also singled home a run to help complete a three-game sweep of DBU (April 9) ... Recorded a career-high three RBIs and matched another personal best with three hits in a 12-5 victory over Wichita State (April 22); singled home two runs as part of a decisive seven-run rally that snapped a 5-5 tie in the eighth inning ... Came back the next afternoon with a 2-for-4 effort in which he double and plated two more runs to help the Bears complete the MVC series sweep ... Turned in back-to-back two-hit games at Evansville (April 29) and at Southern Illinois (May 5), as well as a 2-for-4 performance against Indiana State (May 14) to wrap up yet another MVC series sweep ... Delivered hits in each of his final three NCAA postseason contests (June 5-11), going 1-for-3 in the Bears' Fayetteville Regional clincher at Arkansas, before touching up TCU pitching for base hits in both of MSU's Fort Worth Super Regional contests.
Background: Brought deep Missouri State bloodlines, as well as his reputation as a versatile and athletic backstop to Springfield...The three-sport standout at Belleville East High School was a three-time all-conference pick in baseball and the No. 4 catcher and No. 29 overall prospect in the state of Illinois according to Prep Baseball Report...Hit .467 and slugged .700, while totaling three homers and 28 RBIs to lock up St. Louis Post-Dispatch Second-Team All-Metro honors, as well as the publication's Scholar-Athlete Award...Picked up 2016 Preseason High Honorable Mention All-America recognition, as well as first-team All-Central Region accolades from Perfect Game...Earned Named an Underclass High Honorable Mention All-America pick before hitting .360 as a junior and picking all-tournament honors at the 17U Perfect Game World Series...Also garnered all-conference honors on the grid iron as the Lancers' quarterback in 2015-16, breaking numerous East single-season and career passing records en route to earn Metro East large school player of the year honors as a senior.
Personal: Andrew Theodore Millas is the son of Andy and Nel Millas...Born January 15, 1998, in St. Louis, Mo...Father played collegiate football at Missouri Southern, while mother played basketball at MSU (1984-88); uncle, Dave Spring, played football for the Bears from 1985-89 as well...Majoring in sales management.
