MORAGA, Calif. — The strength of the 2020 Saint Mary's Gaels was their pitching staff, a group that finished the abbreviated season with a top-50 team earned run average at 3.06. That pitching staff just got deeper, as the Gaels announced the addition of Sam Bower to their group of arms for the 2021 season.
A right-hander with healthy size for either the rotation or bullpen (6'2", 215 lbs.), Bower comes to Saint Mary's from the College of Sequoias. The Visalia native spent his first collegiate season as a hometown kid for the Giants, where he made eight appearances, compiling a 4-1 record with a 3.