University of California, Santa Barbara

UC SANTA BARBARA
2025
Started all 54 games for the Gauchos, mainly playing at third base … Hit .281/.391/.461 with 15 doubles, eight home runs and 38 RBIs … Scored a team-high 50 runs, ninth-most in The Big West … Was hit by 23 pitches, the second-most by a Gaucho in a single season, fifth-most in the conference and 32^nd in the country … Was hit by four pitches in a single game against Cal State Bakersfield on May 17, the most by a Gaucho in a single game since at least 2012 and tied for the most by any player in Division I this season … Hit his first home run as a Gaucho on Feb. 16 against Campbell, part of a three-RBI day … Hit his first career grand slam at Long Beach State on March 28, one of two career-best four-RBI games on the season … Went 2-for-4 with four runs driven in against UC Davis on April 6 … Recorded multiple hits in six of his first eight games in Santa Barbara … Finished with 15 two-hit games, second most on the team, and a total of 19 multi-hit outings … Also posted 10 multi-RBI games, good for second on the team … Recorded a career-high three hits on four occasions: March 7 against CSUN, March 11 against San Diego, April 12 at UC Riverside and May 16 against Cal State Bakersfield.

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ARIZONA
2024
Played in 20 games, starting six of them … Recorded his first hit on April 6 against California, going 2-for-3 with a double in the game … Made his postseason debut on June 1 against Dallas Baptist.
 
2023
Redshirted the season.

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HIGH SCHOOL
A three-year letterwinner at Palo Alto Senior High School … Helped the Vikings win back-to-back SCVAL Championships in 2021 and 2022 … Hit .341 with eight home runs as a junior … Tied Ted Williams’ California high school record with two home runs in one inning against JSerra … Also participated in the 2021 Area Code Games.

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PERSONAL
Xavier “X” Esquer was born Dec. 22, 2003 in Berkeley … Grew up in Palo Alto … Son of David Esquer and Lynn Rankin-Esquer … Has a sister, Gabrielle … Dad David is the head baseball coach at Stanford … David also played college baseball at Stanford, winning the 1987 College World Series before playing professionally for the Orioles, Angels and Brewers … Uncle Eric played college baseball at Arizona State and UC Santa Barbara … Majoring in Sociology at UC Santa Barbara … Roots for the Pittsburgh Steelers.