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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 100 of our 2026 California rankings. We are looking at SoCal '26 SS Wylan Rottschafer from Costa Mesa High School in Costa Mesa, Calif.. Wylan has been a consistently strong performer on the Prep Baseball California platform in 2025 first at the Inland Empire Preseason All State in January, then again this summer with a strong showing at the 2025 California State Games both during the workout plus the three games he played in. Rottschafer will also be a member of the California squad this coming October at the West Coast Games.

Rottschafer has flashed his high quality offensive profile during the batting practice sesions of each event he has attended. A RH hitter Rottschafer utilizes a controlled load from a balanced set up with a small leg lift/hand load before landing at launch balanced and on time. The path is compact and direct into the zone with leverage in the path through the zone. His turn has a solid ability to generate torque with a peak rotational acceleration of 14.9 Gs while using quick strong hands with a 21.3 MPH peak hand speed and solid present bat speed at 71.4 MPH in his swing operation. The consistent and quality swing for Wylan mix with his sound present approach, feel for rhythm/timing with his swing plus the high level barrel feel during batting practice to produce max exit velocites up to 98.4 MPH while averaging 88.8 MPH on his exit velocity with a max distance of 367' at the California State Games. The deeper metrics provided by Trackman during batting practice give additional evidence the quality of Wylan's offensive ability including 57% hard hit rate, 71% sweet spot rate while showing solid feel for driving the baseball in the air with up to a 72% fly ball/line drive rates during batting practice sessions.

The RH hitting SS Rottschafer is far from a workout warrior with his offensive toolset having produced a strong level against the quality pitching throughout the Orange County high school ranks. In 2025 Wylan slashed .337/.418/.545 over 31 games played with 123 plate appearances and a totl of 101 official at bats. Rottschafer posted 34 total hits on the spring with 13 of those being the extra base variety (seven doubles, four triples and two home runs). He drove in 16 runs for the Mustangs while scoring another 21 runs himself to go with 10 total walks while topping the team with eight stolen bases. For good measure he posted a .941 fielding percentage in over 100 attempts in those 31 games showing his sound present feel for defense in game with room to continue improving.

Rottschafer is solidly built at 6' 170.2 lbs. presently with emerging strength in his lower half and the potential to add another 10 lbs. potentially or more as he matures. He is a sound present athlete who has run 60 times as low as 7.00 seconds at the Inland Empire Preseason All State. He shows a solid present SS arm at 83 MPH which can add a tick more velocity as his maturity continues to add strength to his frame and shows consistently accurate throws with carry from different angles and throwing slots.

With a solid performance from his JR year high school stats, live looks by Les Lukach, myself and others on our scouting staff, event performances and more there is plenty of reasons for college programs to be jumping into the recruiting mix for Rottschafer as piece for their 2026 classes.

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

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