2025 Summer Rewind: Player Data & Analytics

The summer of 2025 provided players across North Carolina with valuable opportunities to continue their on-field development through practices, workouts, events, games, and tournaments. While the summer schedule can be demanding, most players approach it with a clear plan—testing their abilities, gaining exposure, and identifying areas for growth.

Throughout the season, Prep Baseball scouts worked diligently to evaluate as many players as possible. Tournament play offered game-based assessments, while Prep Baseball events provided controlled settings to capture verified metrics, statistics, analytics, and video. As a result, more than 600 players from North Carolina were added to the rankings database this summer, each earning a player grade based on their measurable tools and performance.

With that information compiled, the updated class rankings offer a clearer picture of how players across the state are progressing. The Summer Rewind series takes a closer look at these evaluations, highlighting standout performances from Prep Baseball events. These range from Team Carolina IDs and Organizational Scout Days—focused on data collection—to premier events such as the NC/SC Border Battle, Top Prospect Games, and the Future Games, where top players measure themselves against elite competition in North Carolina and across the country.

In this series, we will spotlight players from Team Carolina Summer ID events. These players stood out with their performances, athleticism, and overall projection. Below are scout notes from after the event, highlighting the performance. Click on the player name to see more stats, details, and video.

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Team Carolina IDs: 2026 & 2027 Pitchers That Dazzled

2026 Arms

Dylan Stacks – RHP – North Brunswick HS
Dual prospect. Good day with stand out metrics at the plate and on the bump. Frame has continued to add strength and quickness. Solid mover. Easy delivery - repeats. Fastball has average to above ride at 89-91. Slider works with horizontal action through the zone. Slightly early with solid length. As he has continued to improve his strength and movement patterns stuff has continued to tick up. Still room to the ceiling.

Earned an invite to join Team Carolina at the 2025 Prep Baseball Senior Future Games. Stacks committed to UNC Greensboro shortly after the Future Games.

Keegan Spach – RHP – Liberty Prep Christian
Physical presence. Broad shoulders. Strength in the lower half. 6-foot-3, 225 pounds. Good rhythm and direction. Long arm swing works the hand up by the ear. Uncoils with good arm speed. Some deception. Fastball 84-87 flashing heavy run at times. Change-up is next best pitch. Change-up works with 5.1in of induced vertical and 12.3in of horizontal movement. Four pitch arsenal. Slider over breaking ball. Should be an intriguing follow.

Jake Hunter – RHP – Uwharrie Charter Academy
High level feel. Showed ability to move the baseball around with good arm speed. Projects with some ease in a 6-foot-4, 158 pounds. Athletic arm works through a ¾ slot. Fastball spin up to 2557 with solid ride and run. Peaked at 86.9mph. Slider ranged 74-77, 2691rpm. Heavy run on an advanced change-up that pounded the down zone. Intriguing follow in the senior class with current stuff and room to his ceiling.

Earned an invite to join Team Carolina at the 2025 Prep Baseball Senior Future Games. Hunter committed to Western Carolina shortly after the Future Games.

Matthew Ulicny – RHP – Ravenscroft
Athletic frame. Projects as a position player first but the arm strength and athleticism has a chance to play on the mound. Lengthens the arm action on the bump getting to an over-the-top slot. Quick arm. Fastball up to 89.6mph, 2394rpm. Good ride through the zone, averaging 19.2in induced vertical. Downer breaking ball flashes late depth at 76-77, 2529rpm.

Earned an invite to join Team Carolina at the 2025 Prep Baseball Senior Future Games. Ulicny committed to Princeton shortly after the Future Games.

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2027 Arms

Simon Brutskiy – RHP – Apex HS
An extremely loud workout, especially on the on the mound. Physical presence with defined strength in a muscular lower half. Measured at 5-foot-11, 185 pounds. Fastball ranged 90-92. The breaking ball is explosive at 76-78, 3300rpm. Around the zone, showed feel early in the bullpen before tuning the arm up to see if he could peak the fastball. Just a 2027, Brutskiy is one of the top arms in the class.

Earned an invite to join Team Carolina at the 2025 Prep Baseball Senior Future Games.

Will Parrish – RHP – Charlotte Christian School
Easy mover in an athletic 6-foot-3, 190 pound frame. Clean, athletic arm stroke, working level and online. Quick arm. Simple and repeatable delivery. High-3/4 slot. Fastball up to 91. Hard, downer breaking ball. Showed some feel for a change-up with run. High level projection. Potential MLB Draft follow in 12 months as he continues to mature.

Earned an invite to join Team Carolina at the 2025 Prep Baseball Future Games. Parrish committed to North Carolina State shortly after the Future Games.

Brennan McKenna – RHP – Holly Springs HS
Very impressive pen. Flashed good stuff and feel. Stands 5-foot-11, 149 pounds. Frame will continue to handle strength. Fastball at 86-88, 2186rpm with late, heavy, boring run. Slider spin up to 2436rpm at 77-80. Sharp late tilt to the slider. Good command throughout with solid 3 pitch arsenal.

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Looking Back at Summer Leaders