Alejandro Garza Nets First Career Big West Field Player of the Week Honor
4/20/2026 12:15:00 PM | Baseball
SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. — Junior infielder Alejandro Garza has collected a shelf full of major and minor hardware over an already distinguished collegiate career, but for all the accolades, a weekly conference nod had always managed to elude him. Until now.
Garza’s résumé includes a pair of All-Big West First Team selections, Big West Freshman Field Player of the Year honors, a spot on the American Baseball Coaches Association All-West Region Second Team, and the list continues to grow. Yet curiously absent from that list was the Big West Field Player of the Week award, a gap he finally closed this week.
In the series against UC San Diego, he went 8-for-17 with five doubles and six RBIs, seven of those knocks and five of the RBIs coming in just the final two games. This spring, as a whole, Garza has been nothing short of an undeniable force. He leads the Big West in both hits (66) and batting average (.379), while ranking fifth nationally in total hits and hits per game.
Garza has logged multiple hits in seven of his last eight games and in 13 of his last 18 outings. He tops the Mustangs with 20 multi-hit performances this season and has seen his average climb by a staggering 110 points over the past six weeks. During his current eight-game hitting streak, he’s gone 23-for-39 (.590) with seven doubles, a home run, and nine RBIs.
The Bakersfield native now sits at 229 career hits, and shows no intention of tapping the brakes. At this blistering pace, he has a legitimate shot at Cal Poly’s all-time hits record. He needs just 23 more to match Jimmy Allen’s program standard of 252, set from 2011 to 2014, and one more after that to stand alone.
Last season, he was named the Mustangs’ Ozzie Smith MVP Award winner and sharpened his craft over the summer in the prestigious wood-bat Cape Cod League with the Orleans Firebirds.
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