2025 Baseball Roster

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16 Will Bermudez

  • Position INF
  • Ht./Wt. 5-10 / 185
  • B/T S/R
  • Class Redshirt Senior
  • Hometown Whittier, Calif.
  • Prev School UC Davis / Mt. San Antonio College
  • Major Psychological Science

Biography

2024
  • All-Big West Second Team
  • Big West Field Player of the Week April 22
  • Hit. 301 (62-for-206) with 12 doubles, 3 triples, 4 HR, 48 RBI, and 43 runs scored
  • 25 hit by pitch ranked second on the team
  • Two 5-RBI games on March 8 vs. Columbia and April 20 at San Diego State
  • Two streaks of 9 games with a hit and a 9-game run scored streak
2023
  • Named 1 of 3 finalist for the ABCA/Rawlings Gold Glove Award for second basemen
  • In 213 total chances at second base, committed just two errors for the top fielding percentage among middle infielders at .991, and seventh with 122 assists
  • Hit .250 with 43 hits, 44 runs scored, eight doubles, two triples, two home runs, and 28 RBIs starting all 49 games he played
  • Led the team and Big West with 21 hit by pitch, fourth-most in a season in program history
  • Season highs of three hits and four runs came in a win at Arizona State, added a four-RBI game vs. UC Riverside
  • Homered in consecutive at-bats on February 24 vs. Washington State and then on February 26 vs. UNLV
  • 2023 Alaska Baseball League champion with the Anchorage Glacier Pilots over summer ball with UCI teammates Max Martin and Jacob Stinson
  • 16 hits in 23 games played including 20 runs scored, five doubles, one triple, five RBIs, and seven steals
  • Named the league's Gold Glove defensive player
  • Caught a fish barehanded while playing in Alaska
PRIOR TO UC IRVINE
  • Played for the Yuba-Sutter Gold Sox in the summer of 2022 in the Great West League
  • Attended Mt. San Antonio College for the 2022 season
  • Four-time honor roll with distinction
  • Spanish Gold award
  • Dean's List
  • Reached CCCAA First Round Regional Playoffs
  • South Coast Conference champions with a 33-10 overall record and 19-5 conference record
  • First Team All-Conference
  • Played 41 games hitting .373
  • Added 4 home runs, 33 RBI, 55 runs scored, and 15 stolen bases
  • Attended UC Davis for the 2021 season but did not play

PREP
  • Played shortstop and received All-Del Rey League First Team, All-Area First Team and MVP awards
  • Batted .432, recorded 38 hits, 22 runs and stole 19 bases that season
  • Named Defensive Player of the Year as a sophomore
  • In 2018, he hit .306 and earned all-league accolades
  • Pitched and played shortstop throughout his junior year; that season’s honor roll included all-conference first team, All-Area Second Team, All-Southern Section Division III Second Team and MVP honors
  • Posted the following stats that year: .414 avg., 36 hits, 32 runs, 15 stolen bases, 1.44 ERA in 24.1 IP, 25 K, 6 BB and 3 Sv
  • Also held the highest GPA on the team
  • His baseball team won the first of back-to-back league titles during his junior season
  • SPHS also won a Southern Section championship his senior season, once that saw him pitch and play shortstop
  • Named to the CBCA All-Southern Section Division III Team and received the Don Ward Memorial Award and Outstanding Athlete of the Year
  • In his final season at SPHS, he batted .269, finished with 10 runs, one home run, two stolen bases, a 3.21 ERA and only allowed two earned runs. 

PERSONAL
  • One older brother
  • First-Generation College Student
  • Majoring in psychology with a minor in sociology
  • Aspires to be a psychiatrist to help people that can't mentally help themselves much like him and his epilepsy
  • Has coached in the Challenger Program coaching disabled kids to play baseball
  • Most people do not know that he suffered a traumatic head injury while playing a summer baseball game, entering his senior year, which forced him to miss five months and develop epilepsy
  • Defying the odds of not being able to play baseball and earning a Division I scholarship are one of his two proudest personal accomplishments
  • Committing to the Air Force Academy on a full ride during his sophomore year was another; he was medically disqualified once he was diagnosed with epilepsy…
  • Fan of Ken Griffey Jr., Pete Rose, Rafael Furcal, and the Los Angeles Dodgers
  • Enjoys watching his favorite movie Hardball, listening to Vincente Fernandez, playing the euphonium, and was in a band for three years
  • Loves eating Pupusas, and favorite animal is the honey badger
  • Hobbies include juggling, fishing, golfing, coaching challenger program, and recent began an internship with PureGame

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Historical Player Information

  • 16

    2023Redshirt Sophomore

    Infielder
    5'10" 175 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2024Redshirt Junior

    Infielder
    5'10" 175 lbs
    16
  • 16

    2025Redshirt Senior

    Infielder
    5'10" 185 lbs
    16