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Gabriel Sotomayor
Position
RHP
Height
6'3''
Weight
170 lbs.
B/T
R/R
Class
Freshman
Hometown
Gurabo, Puerto Rico
High School
Cache HS (Okla.)
HONORS & AWARDS
- 2021 Academic All-Big 12 Baseball First Team
- 2018 Academic All-Big 12 First Team
- 2016-17 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
- Two-time Athletic Director’s & Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Rolls
2021 (R-SENIOR)
- Appeared in six games with no starts, pitching 4.1 innings with four strikeouts
- Finished the season with a 6.23 ERA, while holding hitters to a 0.067 batting average
- Made first appearance of the season at Saint Louis (3/7)
- Pitched one inning of relief four times – vs. Creighton (3/20), at Lafayette (3/23), vs. Texas (4/3) and vs. Oklahoma State (5/8)
- 2021 Academic All-Big 12 Baseball First Team, 4.0 GPA in Business Information Systems
2020 (SHORTENED SEASON DUE TO CORONAVIRUS)
- Made four appearances, finishing with four and 1/3 innings pitched and a 4.15 ERA
- Season debut at Belmont (2/15)
- Tallied a season-high two and 1/3 innings pitched at Iowa (3/11) with two strikeouts
2019 (JUNIOR)
- Appeared in relief in 10 games
- Pitched five and 2/3 innings with one win and seven strikeouts
- Made season debut on Opening Day at USC Upstate (2/15)
- Recorded two strikeouts against Baylor (3/30)
2018 (SOPHOMORE)
- Started two of the 16 games he played in making 14 relief appearances
- Pitched 23 and 2/3 innings with one win and 20 strikeouts
- Made season debut and recorded two strikeouts in one inning of relief against Murray State (2/17)
- Tossed a career-high three and 1/3 scoreless innings against Omaha (3/14)
- Picked up first-career win Friday night (3/23) against Baylor after pitching two scoreless innings of relief
- First-career start against Morehead State (3/29)
2017 (FRESHMAN)
- Named to the 2016-17 Academic All-Big 12 Rookie Team
- Fall 2016 and Spring 2017 Athletic Director’s & Big 12 Commissioner’s Honor Rolls
- Appeared in nine games on the hill, pitching a total of 10 innings and allowing the earned runs (2.70 ERA)
- Made collegiate debut with one and 2/3 innings of relief against Omaha (2/21)
- Struck out a career-high three batters in two innings of relief at then-No. 23 Stanford (2/24)
- Pitched two scoreless innings of relief against Oral Roberts (2/28)
- Tossed a scoreless frame at then-No. 3 TCU (3/18)
- Pitched another scoreless frame against Samford (3/25)
CACHE HS
- Played for head coach Ryan Whiteley at Cache High School in Oklahoma
- Batted .454 his senior season while posting a 2.75 ERA on the mound
- Struck out 87 batters in 61 innings pitched
- Team won the 4A Regional Championship
PERSONAL
- Born in Caguas, Puerto Rico
- Son of Noel Sotomayor and Wanda Oyola
- Has one sister, Natalia
- Only played one season of organized high school baseball
- Member of the National Honor Society and a National Hispanic Scholar
- Majoring in business administration