With the 2025 MLB season just around the corner, many former Cal Poly Mustangs are gearing up to begin another year of baseball. Here is where a few of the baseball alumni will be starting their season. Brooks Lee Brooks Lee won Big West field player of the year in both of his full two […]
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Where Cal Poly Baseball alum are for the 2024 MLB season
The Major League Baseball season is in full swing and there are some notable former Mustangs representing Cal Poly in the Big Leagues. Cal Poly has had many players take the step from college to the major leagues, including current San Francisco Giants broadcaster Mike Krukrow and Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith. Here is […]
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A look inside where Cal Poly Baseball alumni stand for the 2023 MLB season
As the calendar turns from March to April, the beginning of the Major League Baseball season arrives. Cal Poly has a deep history of players taking the next step, including Hall of Famer Ozzie Smith. Here is a look at where recent Mustang alumni find themselves to start the baseball season. Brooks Lee Lee was […]
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A look back at Cal Poly’s greatest athletes
In its long history of athletics, Cal Poly has fielded highly talented student-athletes in every one of the 21 Division I programs on campus. Some of these Mustangs were successful enough to progress their athletic careers beyond the fields and gyms of San Luis Obispo onto the professional levels of sports. From MLB Hall of […]
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Major league mindset: Alex McKenna drafted by Houston Astros
Alex, along with another Mustang, Nick Meyer, are in the top 200 MLB Draft Prospects as 97th and 167th respectively.
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Cal Poly baseball icon Larry Lee earns 500th career win
Head coach Larry Lee’s 500th win is just the latest milestone he has reached in his esteemed career.
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Minor leagues are big steps for former Mustangs
Jacob Lauing jacoblauing.md@gmail.com Baseball players are no strangers to trades. And four members of the 2012 Cal Poly baseball team made a pretty big one: camaraderie for career. “In pro ball you’re fighting each other for a spot,” former Cal Poly relief pitcher Nick Grim said. “You can be friends with a pitcher, but at […]
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Three players selected in MLB First-Year Player Draft
Three Cal Poly players were selected in this year’s Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft in early June, while former left-handed pitcher Kyle Anderson signed as an undrafted free agent with the Toronto Blue Jays. Former shortstop Mike Miller was selected in the ninth round by the Boston Red Sox and Nick Grim was nabbed […]
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Midwest bound: Haniger selected in first round by Brewers
Mitch Haniger still can’t describe it. That moment he felt as his name flashed across the bottom of the screen during this year’s Major League Baseball (MLB) First-Year Player Draft was too much to digest. In the middle of cheers from a group of friends and family, it took the breath out of him, stunned […]
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Cal Poly's road woes in Davis, Santa Barbara
With less than a month remaining in the spring athletics season, the Mustang baseball, softball and track and field teams hit the road during the weekend. Baseball Cal Poly baseball walked off with a win against Pepperdine on Tuesday night following a 10th-inning home run by third baseman Jimmy Allen, but the Mustangs couldn’t continue […]
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Finally, it's Miller's time
He jump-stepped out of the batter’s box, throwing his bat confidently to the side with his eyes peeled on the baseball. There was no doubt this shot was heading over Baggett Stadium’s outfield fence and into the parking lot — the only question was: fair or foul? Among the statistics that formulate every at-bat in […]