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SAN LUIS OBISPO, Calif. -- Grant Desme and Garrett Olson highlight the list of former Cal Poly baseball players expected to play in Saturday’s Alumni Game at 1 p.m. in Baggett Stadium.

Desme, who played at Cal Poly in 2006 and 2007, was named MVP in the Arizona Fall League after hitting 11 homers and 27 RBIs for the Phoenix Desert Dogs. Recently invited to the Oakland A's spring training camp, Desme retired from baseball Jan. 22 in order to pursue a career as a priest.

He split the 2009 Minor League season between Class A Kane County of the Midwest League, and high Class A Stockton of the California League, combining at the two stops for 31 homers and 40 stolen bases -- ranking as the Minors' lone 30-40 man.

Desme, Big West Conference Player of the Year at Cal Poly in 2007 and the only player in the minor leagues last year to hit 30 home runs and steal 30 bases, was a second-round (74th overall) draft choice of Oakland in 2007 and was a .286 hitter in three Minor League seasons with 33 home runs and 97 RBIs in 145 games.

In his two seasons at Cal Poly, Desme hit 23 home runs and drove in 86 runs. He hit .405 in 2007 with 15 home runs and 53 RBI, earning the Big West Conference's regular season Triple Crown.

Olson, who won 24 games for Cal Poly from 2003-05, owns a 13-18 career win-loss record and 6.46 career ERA in the Major Leagues. He pitched for the Baltimore Orioles in 2007 and 2008 before he was traded to the Chicago Cubs and, 10 days later, to the Seattle Mariners, where he was 3-5 with a 5.60 ERA last season, his third in the Majors.

In addition to Olson, other pitchers expected to play in Saturday’s Alumni Game include Thomas Eager, Jared Eskew, Eric Massingham, Gary Daley, Rocky Roquet, Brian Grening, Mike Young, Prentice Rios, Kevin Waldron, Shannon Stephens and possibly Josh Lansford.

Desme heads the list of outfielders which also includes Brandon Roberts, Chalon Tietje, Ryan Lee, Bryan Gant, Tanner Trosper, Chad Pruett and Kyle Blumenthal.

Infielders expected to play include Brent Morel and Adam Buschini at third base, Gilbert Gil, Drew Gillmore and Josh Mayo at shortstop, Pat Pezet and Scott Domingues at second base and Jimmy Van Ostrand at first base.

The list of catchers includes Matt Canepa, Scott Sheldon, Tom Harrington and Tyler LaSalle.

Other former Mustang players expected to be in attendance but not playing are Tyler Fitch, Tom Beyers, Kyle Smith, Dave Poirier, Nolan Moser, Richard Equinoa and Dick Morrow, among others.

The alumni will face a Cal Poly team which returns 18 letter winners, including seven position starters and three starting pitchers (nine overall), off the 2009 squad which finished 37-21, one win shy of the school Division I record, and a 14-10 Big West mark for third place. The Mustangs are coming off their first trip to the NCAA Division I Regionals.

Cal Poly has had 15 players selected in the first 10 rounds of the last six Major League Baseball drafts (2004-09), including fourth-round pick Adam Buschini last spring, and a total of 29 players drafted overall during that span. Three other Mustangs signed free-agent contracts with Major League organizations and three more signed deals with independent league teams.

Cal Poly officially opens its 2010 season Feb. 19-21 with a three-game series against Southern California in Baggett Stadium. Games Friday and Saturday start at 6 p.m., with the series finale Sunday to begin at 1 o’clock.