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2024 Baseball Roster

Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner
Saint Mary's Athletics / Tod Fierner

23 Christian Almanza

  • Position First Baseman
  • Height 6-4
  • Weight 215
  • Class Graduate Student
  • Hometown Stockton, CA
  • High School Saint Mary's High School
  • Prev School Utah

Biography

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS
  • WCC First Team (2024)
  • Broke single-season and career program records for home runs
  • WCC Co-Player of the Year (2023)
  • WCC First Team (2023)

AS A GRADUATE STUDENT (2024): Played in 56 games for the Gaels and made 55 starts all at first base... Batted a career high .343 and a 1.237 OPS... Finished the season with 71 hits, 16 doubles and a team high 69 RBI's... Broke the single-season program record in home runs with 24 and also broke the career program record, finishing his three seasons as a Gael with 47 total homers... Had a pair of 4-hit games and three multi-home run games with a season high three long balls in a 5-3 win vs. Santa Clara... Also recorded a season high 5 RBI's in a 15-5 win vs. Air Force... Named to the WCC First Team for the second consecutive year. 

AS A SENIOR (2023): A WCC All-Conference First Team…..Shared WCC CO-Player of the Year with BYU’s Austin Deming…..Batted .290…..Had 53 hits over 183 at-bats, including 9 doubles, 1 triple, and 16 Home Runs, which tied for the team lead…..Hit 2 Home runs in a game 4 times…. Recorded season-high 5 RBIs in a matchup against Santa Clara on March 18th, 2023…..His 16 Home Runs are the second-most in SMC single-season history.

AS A JUNIOR (2022): 
Came up just a few plate appearances short of qualifying as the team leader in batting average at .323 slugging percentage at .577 after a non-baseball injury ended his season after 34 games... His 12 doubles led the team and his seven home runs and 26 RBI were second on the Gaels... had 15 multi-hit games including a season-high three hits with four RBIs 3/5/22 at UC Riverside... Also had four RBI at Cal on 3/29/22 when he hit a grand slam.

PRIOR TO SAINT MARY'S: Spent two years in the Pac 12 at the University of Utah … comes from Stockton, CA where he piled up accolades at St. Mary’s High School … Tri City Athletic League Most Valuable Offensive Player as a junior at St. Mary’s HS … led the league with a .467 batting average … also had 42 hits, 27 RBI, 16 doubles, three home runs, nine stolen bases, a .565 on-base percentage, .744 slugging percentage and 1.309 OPS … CalHiSports.com All-State Underclass, first team NorCalPreps All-NorCal team and second team Maxpreps All-Northern California as a junior … team finished runner up in the 2017 CIF Sac-Joaquin Section South Tournament … hit .360 as a sophomore with 25 RBI, 10 doubles, a .424 on-base percentage and a .505 slugging percentage … also played football in High School.

Statistics

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Historical Player Information

  • 23

    2022Junior

    1B
    6'4" 215 lbs
    23
  • 23

    2023Senior

    1B
    6'4" 215 lbs
    23
  • 23

    2024Graduate Student

    First Baseman
    6'4" 215 lbs
    23