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    Gabe Alvarez
    Gabe Alvarez

    Position:
    Assistant Coach

    04/23/2013

    Highlights of the 2013 Baseball Season So Far Include Seven Hitters Batting .300 or Better

    With 17 games left in the regular season, the Trojans have been rewriting the USC record books.

    04/18/2013

    Trojans Travel to Utah for Pac-12 Series, First Time in Program History

    Trojans enter the weekend on a one-game winning streak.

    04/12/2013

    USC Baseball to Host No. 15 Arizona State in Pac-12 Series

    Sunday's game will be telecast live on ESPNU at 2 p.m. PT.

    04/08/2013

    USC Baseball Heads to No. 4 Cal State Fullerton for First Midweek Road Contest

    Trojans will send freshman LHP Sean Adler to the hill.

    04/04/2013

    Trojans Remain at Home to Host Stanford in Pac-12 Series Starting Friday

    The first 500 fans to Saturday's game get a WE PLAY AS 1 jersey t-shirt.

    On September 7, 2010, former USC baseball and major league infielder Gabe Alvarez was named assistant coach by then-interim head coach Frank Cruz. In 2013 Alvarez will be entering his third season as an assistant for Troy.

    Alvarez played at USC as a shortstop from 1993-95 and had a career .338 batting average for the Trojans with 28 home runs and 163 RBI. He earned Baseball America All-America second team honors in his 1993 freshman season after batting .326 with eight home runs and 53 RBI. In 1994, he was a first team All-America pick by the National Collegiate Baseball Writers Association after batting .326 with seven home runs and 51 RBI.

    In 1995, he was part of the Trojan squad that made its first trip to the College World Series since 1978 as USC reached the national title game. After batting .361 with 13 home runs and 59 RBI, Alvarez earned ABCA and NCBWA All-America first team, Collegiate Baseball All-America second team and Baseball America All-America third team honors.

    He was a second-round selection in the 1995 major league baseball draft by the San Diego Padres and played three seasons in the major leagues (1998-2000). He was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks in the 1997 expansion draft before being traded to the Detroit Tigers. He made his debut in 1998 with the Tigers, batting .231 with five home runs and 29 RBI. He was eventually traded to the San Diego Padres in 2000, where he finished his career by playing 92 total major league games.

    The El Monte native and graduate from Bishop Amat High has an 11-year-old daughter, Madison.