Andy Fleischacker enters his first season as First Base Coach of the Washington Wild Things in 2026. He joined the club in March of 2026 to serve as the first base coach, replacing Cole Bumbales in the role. He's most recently been doing private hitting instruction but brings in more than 20 years of baseball coaching expierence to the role.
Fleischacker’s work career began in 1995 with the Vienna Wanderers Baseball Club in Austria, where he was the head coach. He was hitting coach for Gibbs High School in St. Petersburg, Florida, in 1997 and was envoy coach to Germany for a six-week program with four different clubs with Major League Baseball International that year. He took over as head coach for the Cologne Cardinals in 1998, a team in Germany. From 2000 to 2002 and again from 2007 through 2008, he was head coach for the Zürich Challengers in Switzerland. In between he was an assistant at Chaminade High School in Hollywood, Florida, at Greensboro College in North Carolina, hitting coach for the Asheboro Copperheads (CPL) in 2005 and hitting coach for the Salinas Valley Packers (California Collegiate Summer League) in 2006.
He was the hitting and catching coach for the Swiss National Team in 2008 before spending a year at Lake Erie College as hitting coach, time as the head coach of the Solingen Alligators in Germany (2009-10), four more seasons with the Swiss National Team, where he was head coach of the Senior/U18/U15 national teams from 2011-15. Since, he was head coach of senior teams in Switzerland (Therwil Flyers), an assistant at Alonso High School in Tampa, Florida, bench coach for the Ireland U18 National Team for two years and a player development coordinator and Florida HS Director for Kangaroo Court and Top Tier Roos Baseball Club in Tampa. He’s also been doing private hitting instruction in Tampa since 2022.