2025 Top Prospect Games: TrackMan Pitching Analytics
September 3, 2025
The Team Carolina event series has become a cornerstone of the high school baseball calendar in North Carolina. From the Fall ID, Winter ID, and Summer ID events to the highly regarded Preseason All-State showcases in February, each stop serves as a stepping stone toward premier opportunities such as the Future Games, Super Sophomore Games, and the North Carolina Top Prospect Games. These rosters consistently attract significant attention from college coaches and professional scouts, both in-person and online, as performance data, advanced analytics, and video are made available through event coverage and player profiles.
The 2025 North Carolina Top Prospect Games were held at two outstanding venues: High Point University and Finch Field in Thomasville, home of the Thomasville HiToms. The first day at High Point University featured a full offensive and defensive workout, complete with athletic testing and metric collection. On day two, the action shifted to Finch Field for a controlled scrimmages, with each participant assigned to a team and competing against live pitching. This two-day format provided scouts and coaches with a comprehensive evaluation—showcasing athleticism, skill sets, and how tools translate in game situations.
In the weeks ahead, Prep Baseball will deliver in-depth coverage of the 2025 Top Prospect Games, including statistical leaderboards, standout performances, and detailed insights from our scouting staff.
Click Here for the full roster plus the complete statistical leaderboard.
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PITCHERS - IN-GAME TRACKMAN ANALYTICS
FASTBALL
MAX VELOCITY
Max Fastball Velocity: This metric calculates the speed of the pitch as it’s released from the pitcher’s hand.
HIGHEST AVG. SPIN RATE
Spin Rate: This metric calculates the rate of spin on the baseball as it leaves the pitcher’s hand, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm). Historical data shows that high-spin fastballs lessen the impact of gravity, allowing for more ‘rise’ (or less fall, in other words) as it carries through the zone. Low-spin fastballs typically indicate the pitch has greater horizontal action, often making it tougher to square up, but generally easier to make contact with, leading to more ground balls, while high-spin fastballs show a correlation with swings and misses.
HIGHEST AVG. IVB
Induced Vertical Break: Used in short form as "IVB," this metric is most important on fastballs for creating rise and on curveballs for creating depth – it can also have some use when measuring sliders and cutters as well. Sliders tend to be closer to zero inches while cutters are generally between 5 and 15 inches. Usually fastballs and curveballs with large IVB have higher spin efficiencies as well. Sliders generally have very little (closer to zero) IVB and very low spin efficiency. You could also categorize IVB into spin rate as this is part of the “useful movement” you’re looking for, and it’s also important to consider the pitch’s velocity as well as its release height when evaluating IVB measurements against each other.
HIGHEST AVG. HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT
Horizontal Break: Outlined on TrackMan’s own website: “... horizontal movement is measured in inches between where the pitch actually crosses the front of home plate side-wise, and where it would have crossed home plate side-wise if had it traveled in a perfectly straight line from release. A positive number means the break was to the right from the pitcher’s perspective, while a negative number means the break was to the left from the pitcher’s perspective.”
HIGHEST STRIKE ZONE RATE%
For some context, in 2023 MLB pitchers averaged an In Zone% of around 49 percent in live game settings measured across all pitch types, according to Statcast.