13 Brandon Bailey

Class: Junior Hometown: Broomfield, Colo. High School: Broomfield

Height / Weight: 5-10 / 170 Position: Right-Handed Pitcher Experience: 2L

2016: Went 10-3 with a 2.42 ERA and 125 strikeouts as a junior…third-highest single-season strikeout total in program history…First Team All-WCC …Second Team All-West Region honors…Academic All-West Region…WCC All-Academic Team…made All-WCC Championships and All-Fort Worth Regional teams…on USA Baseball Golden Spikes Award Midseason watch list…fanned 17 batters during WCC Championships May 26, the most by a Zag since the early 1990s…threw two complete games: May 3 versus Loyola Marymount and May 26 vs. BYU…earned win at No. 7 TCU March 4…WCC/Rawlings Pitcher of the Week March 7…seven straight games of one earned run allowed or less from March 12-April 22…fanned a then-career high 13 with two walks allowed in eight shutout innings April 1 at Pacific…struck out 10 and allowed just one run May 13 at LMU…earned win at NCAA Regionals against Arizona State June 3…drafted and signed in the sixth round in 2016 MLB Draft by the Oakland Athletics.

2015: Earned WCC All-Academic Honorable Mention and Preseason All-WCC honors…tied for second in WCC, with eight wins, third with 96.2 innings pitched, and tied for third with 91 strikeouts…eight outings of seven or more innings and two or fewer runs allowed…opened year with 3-2 win versus Utah Valley Feb. 13, allowing two runs in 7.0 innings while fanning eight…allowed three hits, one run in seven innings during game two versus Purdue Feb. 26…posted 20.0 scoreless inning streak from Feb. 26 to March 20…struck out career high 10 batters while holding Tulane scoreless and to three hits March 6…made first career bullpen appearance March 10 at Arkansas, throwing a perfect seventh inning…pitched 8.2 frames of one run ball for 2-1 win over No. 25 San Diego…threw first shutout April 12, allowing just four hits and striking out nine Saint Mary’s batters…tossed 7.0 scoreless innings for a win at No. 2 UCLA May 2.

2014: Made 15 starts as a freshman… Had a team-best 6-7 record with a 3.69 ERA in 102.1 innings… named to the All-West Coast Conference first team… tabbed All-West Coast Conference Freshman first team… allowed 50 runs (42 earned) on 118 hits… struck out a team-high 62 batters while walking 25… had a team-high four complete games… held batters to a .290 batting average… each of his six wins came in WCC play… maintained a 6-2 record with a 2.85 ERA in WCC contests… allowed three runs or less in eight of 15 starts… made collegiate debut against Oregon State (Feb. 14) and threw five innings allowing one run on four hits… first collegiate win came against San Francisco (Mar. 15) after throwing 7.1 innings… first complete game came against Notre Dame (Feb. 21)… pitched a career-high 9.2 innings in a no decision to Santa Clara (April 12)…  won three consecutive starts over Santa Clara (April 12), Portland (April 18) and Saint Mary’s (April 26)…  struck out a career-high eight batters against Loyola Marymount (May 22) at the WCC Championship. 

High School: Attended Broomfield High School in Broomfield, Colo… named 2013 Under Armour Pre-Season All-American… led Broomfield to 2012 Colorado 4A State Championship… recorded an 11-0 record and 1.02 ERA during championship season… named Colorado 4A First-Team All-State, Colorado 4A Player of the Year and BoCoPreps.com Player of the Year in 2012.

Club Experience: Played club ball for Colorado Premiere Baseball out of Arvada, Colo….helped the club win 2011 and 2012 NBC 19 and Under National Championship…named 2011 Playball Sports Baseball MVP. 

Personal: Son of Antoinette and Brad…has one sibling named Bri…father Brad played football at Colorado State-Pueblo…majoring in sports management…wants to be involved with creative marketing for a professional baseball team…chose Gonzaga because of the GU community and Catholic Jesuit tradition…can quote almost any movie he’s seen start to finish.