Gabriel Hughes
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2001 (25 years old)
Anchorage, AK, United StatesPosition
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43
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6' 4"
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238 lbs
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Gabriel Alexander Hughes (born August 22, 2001) is an American professional baseball pitcher for the Colorado Rockies of Major League Baseball (MLB). He played college baseball at Gonzaga University and was selected by the Rockies in the first round of the 2022 MLB draft. He debuted in MLB in 2026.
Amateur career
Hughes attended Rocky Mountain High School in Meridian, Idaho. In 2018, his junior year, he had a 7–1 win–loss record with a 1.84 earned run average (ERA) and 59 strikeouts while batting .461. He 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 had a 0.77 ERA with 13 strikeouts over 13+2⁄3 innings before the season was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That summer, he briefly played in the Northwoods League for the Great Lakes Resorters, a temporary Covid pod team based in Traverse City, Michigan. In 2021, as a redshirt freshman, he started ten games and went 4–3 with a 3.23 ERA and 67 strikeouts over 61+1⁄3 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 U.S. 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. He started 15 games during the season and went 8–3 with a 3.21 ERA and 138 strikeouts over 98 innings. Following the season, he traveled to San Diego where he participated in the draft combine.
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