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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 SoCal '26 OF Grant Tsuji from Camarillo High School in Camarillo, Calif.. Tsuji transferred into Camarillo for his JR. season which meant a late start to his year, but he quickly caught my eye with his in game numbers, feel to hit, upside at the plate while showing CF/RF long term defensive profile. 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.

Tsuji's offensive profile was very strong during his batting practice sesion at California State Games. The RH hitter starts from a balanced set up with loose hands and uses a rhythmic load with body control employing a small leg lift while stretching his hands back before reaching launch. His turn is balanced with good posture throughout and his body stays behind the baseball at contact while employing a compact/direct hand and barrel path into and through the zone. His turn has a strong ability to generate torque with a peak rotational acceleration of 18.2 Gs while using quick strong hands with a 21.9 MPH peak hand speed and intriguing present bat speed at 76.9 MPH in his swing operation. The simplicity of his operation in the load, strong feel for timing and barrel awareness were all on display during batting practice to produce max exit velocites up to 95.9 MPH while averaging 90 MPH on his exit velocity with a max distance of 332' at the California State Games. The deeper metrics provided by Trackman during batting practice show the more compact flatter stroke for Tsuji plays to line drives and hard ground ball contact staying to his high contact top of the order hitterish profile with sneaky good strength including a 56% hard hit rate.

The 2025 spring season for Tsuji got off to a later start due to his transfer, but playing in 18 of the Scorpions 31 games on the spring his arrival in the lineup helped spark a run to the CIF-SS D5 semifinals (coming a year after a CIF-SS D4 title). He took 72 plate appearances with 60 official at bats while slashing .383/.471/.433 fitting comfortably into the top of the order for Camarillo. He posted 23 total hits (good for third on the team in about 60% of their games played) while picking up three doubles, driving in six runs and scoring 17 runs (second on the team). His AVG and OBP topped the team, Tsuji posted more walks with seven than strikeouts on the spring (five total). As well, his eight stolen bases were tops on the team while only committing one error on the spring season. 

Tsuji is athletically built with a 6'1` 178.6 lbs frame that has room to continue adding good weight as he matures. A solid athlete he posted 7.08 60 yard sprint speed with a top end 19.4 MPH run speed while showing off an accurate 84 MPH OF arm with good instincts in the OF to profile to potentially stick in CF with a tick more foot speed or shift to RF with a tick more arm strength. His bat will play in either spot as a top of the order impact profile RH hitter.

With a solid JR. of high school stats, strong offensive metrics, emerging athleticism and showing room to continue polish to his overall game the Ventura County based product Tsuji 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 Tsuji's profile to see full video and information.

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