Uncommitted Spotlight: '26 1B/LHP Ari Silva
June 10, 2025
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VENTURA, CALIF. - The Uncommitted Spotlight Series returns as the amateur baseball world in California has wrapped up the CIF High School baseball season and is now engulfed in the summer tournament/showcase circuit. The player featured today is one of the top players in the state of California and figures prominently in our Class of 2026 Rankings.
We invite you to get to know them through the eyes of our Prep Baseball California staff of scouts both through our in person looks at players and/or the data-backed numbers collected at our events with our partnered companies. TrackMan, Blast Motion, and VALD Performance provide comparable data to project and evaluate players. All of these systems come together to give a clear picture at what colleges will get when a players steps onto their campus.
Today, we put the spotlight on the #69 ranked player in the 2026 class who should be a strong follow for college programs in their 2026 recruiting efforts this summer in NorCal '26 1B/LHP Ari Silva from McClathchy High School in Sacramento, Calif.. The two-way product has put together a strong high school career at the varsity level in Northern California. In 2025, Silva made 104 plate appearances (77 at bats) posting a slash line of .390/.529/.584 with an eye popping 24 BBs to 7 Ks ratio on the spring. The LH offensive approach of Silva not only showed discipline in his approach to go with a high quality hit tool, but flashed power potential with nine doubles and three triples that as he continues adding strength to his frame can turn into over the fence power. Silva's 30 hits, 34 RBIs and 25 runs scored were all either first or second on the McClatchy squad. As impressive as the offensive season for Silva was in 2025 he matched or potentially exceeded it with his work on the bump by posting a 6-1 record over 13 appearances for a total of 57 innings pitched. Silva struck out 73 hitters on the spring while opponents hit just .165 off him and posting a 1.35 ERA for the year.
Silva backed up his strong performance on the high school varsity level by putting together a strong display of his overall toolset when he attended the 2025 NorCal ProCase in late May at Consumes River College.
Silva has a simple smooth operation in the box as a LH hitter who features body control in his load with a small forward move that he controls and takes a smooth repeatable swing which features consistent hard contact through the middle of the field. During his batting practice session at the NorCal ProCase Silva showed the strong feel to find the barrel of his bat with a 58% sweet spot rate His swing control combined with the strong approach, rhythm and feel for timing he demonstrates played well during batting practice where reached a top end exit velocity of 95.6 MPH, average exit velocity at 85.2 MPH, max distance of 328' on a barrel to the middle of the diamond.
At the same event Silva toed the rubber where he lived at 85-85.3 MPH on his sinking FB with quality spin on his FB (2088 RPMs average) while showing intriguing running life with -13.4" of avg. horizontal run to the arm side and control of the offering which he threw for strikes at 67% clip on Trackman. His FB is backed up by a pair of secondary offernings in a solid SLD which has a two plane shape (averaging 6.6" of horizontal break to go with depth in the -4.9" IVB range) while living at 71-74 MPH. Silva added an interesting CHG which shows potential at 75-77 MPH with action to his arm side generating on average -18.7" of horizontal face which tunnels well with his sinking FB shape can be an effective whiff/soft contact offering. He throws all three offerings from a release height of 5'6" on average for the FB / 5'5-7" on average for the SLD/CHG which makes it difficult for hitters to determine any pre-pitch tip presently, but can continue to improve to tighten that window even more.
Silva showed solid athleticism with a 7.14 60 time at the ProCase with splits of 1.68 at 10 yards and 3.97 at 30 yards while showing a top run speed of 19.4 MPH. His arm is solid at 80 MPH across the INF and has shown the ability to be a strong defender 1B and there is potential he could handle an OF corner like LF to find spots for his high quality LH bat to play.
With a strong offensive profile that continues to trend upward, defensive versatility and adding a solid three pitch arsenal, experience starting or working out of a bullpen to go with a track record of quality performance Silva is a strong uncommitted 2026 for college coaches to be keeping close tabs on with his performance over the summer 2026 circuit.
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Upcoming Events
| Showcase | State | Date | Location |
| Sacramento Summer ID | CA | 06/10 | Franklin High School - Elk Grove, CA |
| Bakersfield Summer ID | CA | 06/18 | Bakersfield Christian - Bakersfield, CA |
| Bay Area Summer ID | CA | 07/01 | Islanders Field |
| San Diego Summer ID | CA | 07/01 | Maranatha Christian High School - San Diego, CA |
| Central California Summer ID | CA | 07/08 | Ventura College |
| Senior Future Games (Class of 2026) | NATIONAL | 07/22 | LakePoint Sports |
| Future Games (Class of 2027) | NATIONAL | 07/23 | LakePoint Sports |
| Junior Future Games (Class of 2029/30) | NATIONAL | 07/24 | LakePoint Sports |
| 2025 California State Games (Invite-Only) | CA | 07/30 | Fullerton College - Fullerton, CA & Fullerton High School |
| 2025 West Coast Super Sophomore Games (Invite-Only) | CA | 09/26 | University of Oregon / Bushnell University |
Scouting Report
I have been itching to see McClatchy play this year, their team is off to a great 8-0 start after last night's crazy back and forth game. It was looking very promising early for the Lions, even though West Park took an early 1-0 lead, the Lions would answer back with a one spot in the bottom of the 1st inning giving Silva some insurance. Silva got things going early when he split the LCF gap for a double to add on to the offensive inning. The kid can really hit, and I can see why so many people are high on his bat to ball skills. Silva hits third for the Lions, I can see him being a legit two-way player at the next level, especially since he is still maturing as he is only in his junior year. Silva is pretty crafty on the mound, he got the start for CKM and ended up going three innings, surrendering two hits, giving up one earned run, and had three strikeouts. Can prove the ability to pitch backwards on a lot of Westpark’s hitters. Silva’s FB was sitting between 82-84 MPH T85 with some ASR, CH was 72-73 MPH with some late fade, and his CB was between 70-71 MPH. Early in the game, Silva had an errant throw that would cost them a couple runs, but the Lions ended up gaining momentum to take the lead later in the game. Silva would be the one to come in clutch to hit a bases clearing triple that would eventually lead them to a victory over the Panthers. Big fan of Silva after today, excited to see more of him in the next couple months leading into summer.