2025 Baseball Roster
Jersey Number 55
Anthony Martinez
- Position:
- 1B
- Ht./Wt.:
- 6-3 / 230
- B/T:
- L/R
- Class:
- Junior
- Hometown:
- Fairfield, Calif.
- Major:
- Sociology
2024
PERSONAL
- Played for U.S. Collegiate National Team in International Friendly Series vs. Chinese Taipei
- All-Big West First Team
- Played all 59 games at first base
- Hit .316 (81-for-256) with 18 doubles and nine home runs
- Drove in 74 RBI to set UC Irvine single-season record
- Added 54 runs scored and 36 walks
- Four-hit game vs. Cal State Bakersfield, added seven 4-RBI games
- 2024 Preseason All-American - NCBWA Second Team, D1Baseball Third Team
- 2024 Big West Preseason Coaches Team
- Bobby Bragan National Collegiate Slugger Award watchlist
- D1Baseball.com, NCBWA, and Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Freshman All-American
- Collegiate Baseball Newspaper Third-Team All-American
- Big West Freshman Field Player of the Year
- Played summer ball with Yarmouth-Dennis Red Sox of the Cape Cod League and also trained with USA Baseball National Team at Training Camp
- NCAA National Player of the Week March 5
- Big West leader hitting .394 along with 91 hits, 60 RBIs, and a .471 on-base percentage
- Started all 55 games leading the team in doubles, at-bats, OPS, and tied in home runs with 11
- Two-time Big West Field Player of the Week
- Program record four-game home run streak
- Season highs of a nine-game hit streak, seven-game run scored streak, and 21-game on-base streak
- 26 multi-hit games including seven four-hit games
- Attended De La Salle High School
- Three-time NCS Scholar-Athlete
- Played baseball for four years
- 2022 Max Preps Norcal Player of the Year
- 2022 Bay Area News Group's Player of the Year
- 2022 Cal-hi Sports First Team all-state
- 2022 PBR all-state team
- 2022 CIF Norcal Division I champion
- 2022 North Coast Section champion
- 2021 East Bay Athletic League champion
- Wrestled for one year
- Played travel ball under coaches Adam Farb and Erik Wagle for Alpha Prime
PERSONAL
- First-Generation College Student
- Two younger siblings
- Family is Colombian, El Salvadorean, and Filipino
- Fan of Juan Soto and the New York Yankees
- Enjoys watching his favorite movie, Step Brothers, his favorite TV show, Kitchen Nightmares, and listening to Larry June, El Alfa, and Bad Bunny
- Hobbies include cooking, juggling, magic, video games, legos, collecting shoes, pickleball, lifting, favorite food is pupusas, and his Belgian Malinois, Maya
- Selected UC Irvine because I know the coaching staff is going to help me be prepared for the next level. In the short time I have been with them, they have helped me excel as a man on and off the field
LAND’ON one over the fence 👊
Monday, March 23
UCI Athletics 2026 Hall of Fame Ceremony - Keston Hiura
Monday, February 16
UCI Baseball | 2026 Season Preview
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