St. Mary's ace Corbin Burnes

Under The Radar: St. Mary’s

Eric Valenzuela took a leap of faith the offseason before the 2014 college baseball campaign. He had established himself as one of the premier assistant coaches in Southern California, and he surely would have been in the mix for some higher profile jobs in due time. But, Valenzuela felt a calling when St. Mary’s approached him about its vacancy.

Conventional wisdom would suggest that Valenzuela stay patient and wait, but as someone who helped build San Diego into a national power with the likes of Josh Romanski[…]