Brett Wallace
Hitting Coach
Former Major League Baseball player Brett Wallace is in his first season as Cal's hitting coach in 2025 and also works with the Golden Bears' infielders.
Wallace spent the 2024 season at his alma mater Arizona State as the Sun Devils' Director of Quality Control & Offensive Strategy for a team that finished 32-26 overall and 17-13 in the Pac-12. ASU won its final four regular-season Pac-12 series and last six regular-season contests overall.
The Sun Devils' 2024 offensive numbers in Wallace's lone season on the staff were marked improvements from a 2023 squad that ranked no better than fourth in the Pac-12 in any offensive category.
Wallace helped develop five Sun Devils who earned 2024 All-Pac-12 honors including the conference's Freshman of the Year in DH/LHP Brandon Compton, who hit .354 while pacing all Pac-12 freshmen with 14 home runs and 51 RBI. All five ASU players who earned All-Pac-12 recognition hit better than .320 with double-digit home runs and over 50 RBI. Others on the list included C Ryan Campos (.364, 11, 56), OF Nick McLain (.342, 12, 54), 1B Jacob Tobias (.322, 18, 58) and OF Kien Vu (.413, 14, 56).
As a professional baseball player, Wallace spent a combined six MLB seasons with Houston (2010-13) and San Diego (2015-16). He hit .238 with 40 home runs and 138 RBI in 494 career major league regular-season contests. He also played 564 minor league regular-season games over at least part of seven different seasons and hit .304 with 83 home runs and 316 RBI. Wallace began his professional playing career in 2008 after being selected by St. Louis with the 13th pick overall in the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft earlier the same year.
Wallace was an All-American and finalist for the Golden Spikes Award given to college baseball's top player as a 2008 junior at Arizona State, as well as a two-time Pac-12 Player of the Year and triple crown winner in back-to-back seasons over his final two campaigns with the Sun Devils in 2007 and 2008. He finished his collegiate career with a .406 batting average, 45 home runs and 193 RBI in 170 games, while his three Arizona State squads from 2006-08 compiled a combined 136-49 (.735) record and reached the postseason in each of his campaigns including a trip to the College World Series during his 2007 sophomore season.
The Bay Area native prepped at Justin-Siena High School in Napa, where he lettered all four seasons and led his teams to a combined 97-9 record including a perfect 27-0 mark during his 2005 senior campaign when he hit .520 with 12 home runs and 40 RBI to earn Collegiate Baseball/Louisville Slugger All-American, California Small Schools Player of the Year and first-team all-state recognition. The Braves won three North Coast Section Class A crowns during his prep career, and he combined to hit .464 with 30 home runs and 123 RBI. Wallace was also a combined 5-0 with eight saves on the mound as a prep.
In addition to his playing and coaching careers, Wallace has also been a private hitting instructor and ran a private business. He returned to Arizona State to earn a bachelor's degree in liberal studies in 2018.
Wallace and his wife (Taylar) are the parents of one son (Beckett) and one daughter (Madison) with their third child due this fall.