Summer Rewind: Best of Hitters

September 12, 2025
Brandon Hall
NC / Mid-ATL Director of Scouting

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 also spotlight leaders in ball flight data, swing metrics collected through BLAST Motion, and athletic testing powered by VALD Performance. These tools, integrated into Prep Baseball events, ensure that players are evaluated with precision, making Prep Baseball the most trusted name in amateur baseball scouting.

CLICK HERE to catch up on all the stats and analytics from the Summer of 2025

Best Hitters of the Summer - TrackMan Leaders

MAX EXIT VELOCITY

HIGHEST AVG. EXIT VELOCITY

Exit Velocity: This metric measures the speed of the ball, measured in miles per hour, as it comes off the bat at the moment of impact.

MAX BATTED DISTANCE

HIGHEST SWEET SPOT%

Sweet Spot percentage: This metric is determined by how often the player produces a batted ball during the session with a launch angle between 8 to 32 degrees.

HIGHEST HARD HIT%

Hard Hit percentage: Percentage of batted balls within a given event that were measured at 90mph or higher.

HIGHEST LINE DRIVE%

Line Drive percentage: Percentage of batted balls with launch angles between 10 and 25 degrees in the given event