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VENTURA, CALIF. - The Uncommitted Spotlight Series continues after a jam packed summer of Prep Baseball California events, summer travel baseball, and other opportunities to evaluate players we will be recognizing some of the top remaining uncommitted players around the state. We will be looking at players from the 2026 class and 2027 classes across the upcoming weeks/months. 

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 an impressive 2026 player who is featured inside the Top 200 of our 2026 California rankings. We are looking at NorCal '26 C Jarett Hackney from Twelve Bridges High School in Lincoln, Calif.. Hackney has a been a consistent performer across multiple years of Prep Baseball California events and in 2025 opened the year with a solid showing at the Northern California Preseason All State event and after a strong spring he earned an invitation to the 2025 California State Games where excelled over the three days showing that his tools and in game ability match up with players from all over the state.

Hackney's offensive profile has been very strong during his batting practice sesion across all of his event attendance. The RH hitter starts from a balanced set up with a lower hand set up. He uses a simple load with body control employing a small leg lift while loading his hands back slightly before reaching launch. His turn is balanced with feel for getting into his back leg and his body stays behind the baseball at contact while employing a compact hand path with an uphill barrel path through the zone. His turn has a solid ability to generate torque with a peak rotational acceleration of 14.6 Gs while using fast strong hands with a 23.5 MPH peak hand speed and solid present bat speed at 70.4 MPH in his swing operation. The simplicity of his operation in the load, strong feel for timing and barrel awareness have been consistent during batting practice to produce max exit velocites up to 99.4 MPH while averaging 89.8 MPH on his exit velocity with a max distance of 327' at the California State Games. The deeper metrics provided by Trackman during batting practice show the feel for hard contact with a 55% hard hit, barrel awareness 67% sweet spot and solid feel for putting the ball in the air with 55-63% fly ball/line drive rates in 2025.

The 2025 spring season for Hackney was strong in Northern California playing in 26 games the RH hitter took 87 trips to the plate with 74 official at bats posting a slash line of .351/.425/.473. He had 26 total hits with five going for extra bases (three doubles and two home runs) topping the team with 19 RBIs while scoring 16 runs. For good measure he drew 10 walks while stealing five bases on the year. 

Hackney is athletically built with a 6'2 176.9 lbs frame that has room to continue adding good weight as he matures. A solid athlete he posted 7.26 60 yard sprint speed with a top end 18.8 MPH run speed. He has shown the defensive profile to stick long term behind the plate with his receiving/blocking acumen and a solid present throwing arm reaching 79 MPH on his C velo with pop times as low as 2.01 seconds flashing solid accuracy to his throws.

With a solid JR. of high school stats, high quality offensive metrics, and showing room to continue polish to his overall game the Ventura County based product Hackney is a name college programs would be well served to keeping eyes on for their 2026 class.

College coaches and fans be sure to click on Hackney's profile to see full video and information.

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