Gabriel Hughes
Gabriel Hughes (born August 22, 2001) is an American college baseball pitcher for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. Career. Hughes attended Rocky Mountain High School in Eagle, Idaho. In 2018, his junior year, he went 7-1 with a 1.84 ERA and 59 strikeouts while batting .461 and was named the Idaho Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year. As a senior in 2019, he went 7-1 with a 0.95 ERA and 65 strikeouts alongside batting .365 with seven home runs and was named the Idaho Gatorade Baseball Player of the Year for the second straight season. That summer, he  played in the West Coast League for the Bellingham Bells. Unselected in the 2019 Major League Baseball draft, he enrolled at Gonzaga University to play college baseball for the Gonzaga Bulldogs. As a freshman at Gonzaga in 2020, Hughes posted a 0.77 ERA with 13 strikeouts over innings before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. He spent the summer playing in the Northwoods League for the Great Lakes Resorters. In 2021, as a redshirt freshman, he started ten games and went 4-3 with a 3.23 ERA and 67 strikeouts over innings while also starting 31 games  at first base, batting .247 with three home runs. His season ended early after breaking a knuckle while batting. That summer, he was selected to play for the USA Baseball Collegiate National Team. Hughes entered the 2022 season as a preseason All-American and Gonzaga's number one starter. He also switched his focus solely to pitching after being a two-way player in previous seasons. Personal life. Hughes's grandfather, Donald, played in the minor leagues for the Detroit Tigers.