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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 as the fall schedule begins to ramp up for scout ball, travel basball, high school scrimmage season and our Prep Baseball California series of events. 

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 player who is currently amongst our 2027 California rankings after a strong Sophomore showing on the Prep Baseball California circuit and with a solid high school season. We are looking at SoCal '27 OF Patrick Foster from San Marcos High School in Santa Barbara, Calif.. Foster has been a two-year starter on the varsity level for the Royals in the Channel League and his 2025 spring season showed the upward trend for the LH hitting CF as he earned All-Channel League honors. For the season Foster played in all 28 games hitting in the top three spots of the their lineup with 110 plate appearances and 94 official at bats. Foster slashed .404/.468/.426 to set the table for the Royals lineup he 38 hits with two doubles, 19 runs scored and 19 RBIs. Foster picked up nine BBs to just seven Ks on the spring while stealing 12 bases. He topped San Marcos in average, hits, runs, RBIs and stolen bases. Defensively he posted a perfect season with a 1.000% fielding percentage for the year.

Foster made a pair of appearances on the Prep Baseball California event circuit in the summer of 2025 beginning first with a standout showing the Central California Summer ID at Ventura College in July. His spring season stats and showing at the Summer ID earned him an invite to the 2025 California State Games where he excelled across the three day event including reaching base in nearly every plate appearance over the three games played. 

Foster has shown an interesting present offensive toolset across both Prep Baseball California events. A LH hitter Foster works from a balanced base with a medium length forward move into the launch position with a small load preceding that while his hands push back slightly to separate from his lower 1/2 in the turn. Patrick shows a compact hand path and quickness to getting his barrel in the zone while showing leverage from the middle to pull side of the field. The metrics for Foster are strong across the board including the ability to generate torque in his swing through his lower 1/2 with a peak rotational acceleration of 19.6 Gs while showing consistent quickness in his hands with a 22.1 MPH peak hand speed and solid present bat speeds up to 70 MPH. The polish of his offensive operation to reach the launch position on time while showing strong barrel feel in batting practice has produced max exit velocites up to 94.1 MPH with a max distance of 344' at the Central California Summer ID event. The deeper metrics provided by Trackman during batting practice for Foster showed his ability to generate hard contact in the air during the same event with a 83% fly ball/line drive rate with nearly identical fly ball and line drive rates. Foster connected for a 43% hard hit rate and 83% sweet spot rate and one can anticipate almost all of these numbers to continue going up as he adds strength to his frame in the future.

Patrick presents a wiry, athletic frame at 5'8 145.2 lbs. and has the room on his frame to add strength in the 15-25 lbs range as he continues to mature while maintaining or improving his athleticism. Foster is a solid present runner at 6.98 seconds in the 60 with ability to build speed and should see those numbers improve with added strength to his twitch athletic present movements. His arm is solid at present from the OF reaching 80 MPH while showing consistent throws and the feel to one hop the ball accurately to the target. His profile is strong with the athletic foundation, but there is plenty of upside here to see him become a potential dynamic athlete as he fills out in the future.

With two years of solid to impressive high school stats, consistently strong live looks by our scouting staff, event performances and more there are several reasons for college programs to be diving into Foster as an option for their 2027 class.

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

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