{"id":310495,"date":"2026-06-17T14:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310495\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T14:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T14:58:06","slug":"alex-sosa-leads-miami-hurricanes-toward-brighter-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/310495\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Sosa leads Miami Hurricanes toward brighter future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite failing to advance to the Super Regional, the Miami Hurricanes baseball program is trending in the right direction. Head coach J.D. Arteaga led the team to its most wins in a season (39-20) since taking over in 2023. His achievements included bringing junior catcher Alex Sosa back home to South Florida from North Carolina State.<\/p>\n<p>The Viera native has a family background in sports: his father played basketball at Florida International University and his mom competed in volleyball at Florida State University. Sosa attended Hurricanes baseball games with his family and it became his passion. Football wasn\u2019t a strong interest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was very baseball-oriented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He was an infielder at Viera High School and played basketball and flag football as well. One thing held him back: height.<\/p>\n<p>Sosa entered high school at 5-5.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI talked to a lot of schools, but they all said, \u2018You\u2019re too small,\u201d Sosa added. \u201cThey weren\u2019t saying I wasn\u2019t good enough.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Viera, Sosa batted .388, 92 hits in 237 at-bats with 24 doubles, two triples, 69 RBI and five home runs in 90 games over four seasons, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.maxpreps.com\/fl\/viera\/viera-hawks\/athletes\/alex-sosa\/?careerid=82k3ts1nuch77\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">MaxPreps<\/a>. He grew to be 6-1. Sosa wound up with a handful of offers, including from FIU, but committed to North Carolina State University as a freshman.<\/p>\n<p>Moving to a different state wasn\u2019t a bother. Sosa\u2019s experience in travel ball, sleeping in countless hotels across the country, made the transition to college smooth.<\/p>\n<p>As a freshman, Sosa played a role in the Wolfpack\u2019s 38-23 season, including a trip to the College World Series at Omaha, Nebraska. He started in all eight games, batting .273 (nine hits in 33 at-bats) with a double, home run and three RBI.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy parents always said, \u2018Give me a reason to go to Omaha,\u2019\u201d Sosa said. \u201cFor anybody in college baseball, that\u2019s the goal. It was a ton of fun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After two seasons with the Wolfpack, Sosa entered the transfer portal as one of the top players on the open market. However, before deciding to join the Hurricanes, he didn\u2019t want to fall under the usual narrative.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI didn\u2019t want to be viewed as going after NIL money,\u201d Sosa said. \u201cI was chasing a place that was going to be home for me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After evaluating all options, a full-circle moment came to fruition, joining the team he grew up watching. In a full season with the Hurricanes, Sosa finished with new career highs: batting .338 in 222 at-bats, including 75 hits, 16 doubles, two triples, and 71 runs batted in. He led the team with 18 home runs and earned All-Atlantic Coast Conference second Ttam honors.<\/p>\n<p>Sosa is eligible for the 2026 MLB Draft, which takes place in July, but has the choice to return to the Hurricanes for his senior season.<\/p>\n<p>What will he choose? Sosa hasn\u2019t decided.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy dream is to play in the bigs,\u201d he said. \u201cI love Miami \u2013 I\u2019m definitely coming back regardless of what happens\u2013if it\u2019s time for me to take the next step, then it\u2019s time.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Despite failing to advance to the Super Regional, the Miami Hurricanes baseball program is trending in the right&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-310495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}