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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 upward trending 2026 player who stood out during the Summer Showcase circuit for Prep Baseball California and made a strong showing at the 2025 Prep Baseball Senior Future Games. We are looking at SoCal '26 RHP Andrew Albrecht from Thousand Oaks High School in Thousand Oaks, Calif.. Albrecht made his presence felt at the Future Games Tryout: Central California where the prototype framed 6'4 185 lbs. righthander was impressive across his six hitters faced that earned him his trip to LakePoint for the Senior Future Games.

Albrecht has been able to showcase a high quality three pitch mix in front of the Prep Baseball California scouting staff while flashing the feel to throw all three offerings in the strike zone with swing/miss on his spin. It's a low effort operation for Albrech to who stays tall in his posture moving down the mound into foot strike with consistency to his direction. Once he gets in the ground the arm path is quick with looseness to the operation minimal recoil after release from a high 3/4 slot which plays to the shapes of his three pitch mix. 

First, at the FGT: Central California event he pitched at 86-88 MPH on the FB while peaking at 89 MPH with the offering showing quality feel to spin the offering on the day 2100+ RPMs on average peaking at 2300+, with two different shapes throwing a firmer four-seam FB with ride and running two-seam offering to down in the zone with. Then at the Senior Future Games he showed the same present velocity and feel for spin averaging 2200+ RPMs while peaking above 2300+ RPMs on the four-seam and generating 14.7" average IVB movement with 8.7" average horizontal movement on the two-seam offering. The four-seam resided in the 87-88 MPH range while his two-seamer came in at 84-86 MPH.

The breaking balls for Albrecht have each shown potential for swing/miss with his CB showing real potential coming in at 79-82 MPH with spin rates above 2100 RPMs and a vertical shape reaching IVBs as low as -0.6" and averaging 2.6" with a 67% in zone rate at the FGT: Central California. His SLD was solid across both events he attending with more of a horizontal breaking type shape to the offering coming in at 76-79 MPH while peaking with -9.3" of horizontal movement on the offering showing some two-plane break including -4.0" of IVB on the offering. 

The wiry built righthander with emerging strength adds a solid low 80's CHG which he threw in warm-ups at both events, but did not go to during game play. The offering features fade to the arm side that will be a weapon against LH hitters in the future as he continues to grow his confidence for throwing the offering in game.

During his outing at Senior Future Games he attacked the zone with ability to generate soft contact with both his FB and SLD while punching out one hitter across two innings. This backed up his showing at FGT: Central California where he punched out multiple hitters while consistently disrupting the timing of hitters.

He missed some time on the circuit post his Soph. year into his JR. season and experienced flashes of success for Thousand Oaks during the 2025 spring season. But, with the growth shown during the summer to his high quality stuff, feel to control the strike zone and confidence to attack hitters that has him on an upward trend heading into his SR. campaign making him a strong name to follow for college programs looking for starter potential arms in the 2026 class.

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

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