Prep Baseball Report

Ontario Rising Stars ID: Positional Data Dive


Cameron Black-Araujo
Assistant Director, Canada

On Sunday, March 1st, the Prep Baseball Ontario staff hosted it's first Rising Stars ID of the year with the Ontario Rising Stars ID hosted at Future MVP Baseball Lab, in Scarborough, Ontario.

This event featured roughly 55 prospects in the 2030 - 2031 classes for an introductory showcase that allowed the young athletes to compete in their first showcase with players stricly within their age group. Rising Stars ID's also serve as identifiers for Canada's Junior Future Games Team that will compete at LakePoint Sports in late July against top players from each U.S. State.

All player ran through a full workout that included batting practice and bullpens captured on our TrackMan, as well as 30-yard runs and splits captured by VALD Performance and positional drills including velocities. Over the next several days we'll be highlighting top performers from the event within our post-event analysis. Stay locked into our social media channels over the next several days as we continue to push out video, leaderboards and more.

Earlier this week, we began our post-event coverage within our Statistical Analysis and Pitching Data Dive articles. Today, we will continue our post-event coverage within this Positional Data Dive article as we bring you the top Trackman Hitting and VALD Performance data collected on Sunday.

For complete event results, click here.
To view Class of 2026 Commitment Board, click here.


TRACKMAN

EXIT VELOCITY (MAX)

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (max)
1 Alexander Penney ON St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School 2030 1B 98.2 mph
2 Reggie Mills ON Waterdown District High School 2030 1B 96.9 mph
3 Liam McCready ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 OF 92.1 mph
4 Carter Elliott ON Nelson High School 2030 RHP 90.5 mph
5 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 90.4 mph
6 Vincent Ristevski ON St Stephens Bowmanville 2030 C 88.2 mph
7 Owen Sedlak ON St. James Catholic High School 2030 C 87.8 mph
8 Matthew Humphrey ON Notre Dame Catholic Secondary 2030 RHP 87.7 mph
9 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 87.4 mph
10 Julian Manaois ON Bishop Allen Academy Catholic Secondary School 2030 C 86.5 mph

EXIT VELOCITY (AVG.)

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (avg)
1 Reggie Mills ON Waterdown District High School 2030 1B 87.8 mph
2 Alexander Penney ON St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School 2030 1B 85.3 mph
3 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 81.5 mph
4 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 81.1 mph
5 Vincent Ristevski ON St Stephens Bowmanville 2030 C 78.5 mph
6 Jayden David ON PHS 2030 SS 78.3 mph
7 Domenico Di Nardo ON Assumption College School 2030 OF 77.2 mph
8 JJ Mak ON Upper Canada College 2030 OF 77.1 mph
9 FABRIZIO DARRIGO ON St Marcellinus 2030 3B 76.1 mph
10 Sylas Turner ON unlisted 2030 1B 75.4 mph

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 contact.

BATTED BALL DISTANCE (MAX)

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (max)
1 Alexander Penney ON St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School 2030 1B 324 ft
2 Kai Jackson ON GreenWood 2030 OF 302 ft
3 JJ Mak ON Upper Canada College 2030 OF 302 ft
4 Vincent Ristevski ON St Stephens Bowmanville 2030 C 291 ft
5 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 285 ft
6 Carter Elliott ON Nelson High School 2030 RHP 276 ft
7 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 276 ft
8 Matthew Humphrey ON Notre Dame Catholic Secondary 2030 RHP 266 ft
9 Carter May ON Southwood Secondary School 2030 SS 264 ft
10 Jayden David ON PHS 2030 SS 261 ft

BATTED BALL DISTANCE (AVG.)

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (avg)
1 Alexander Penney ON St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School 2030 1B 186 ft
2 Austin Lobsinger ON St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School London Ontario 2030 OF 182 ft
3 Harry Sandico ON St. Marcellinus Secondary School 2030 2B 179 ft
4 Owen Sedlak ON St. James Catholic High School 2030 C 178 ft
5 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 170 ft
6 Jacob Feret ON Brooklin High School 2031 1B 163 ft
7 Lucas Spourgitis ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 1B 162 ft
8 Luke Tilson ON Not listed 2030 C 162 ft
9 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 152 ft
10 JJ Mak ON Upper Canada College 2030 OF 151 ft

HARD HIT %

Rank Name State School Class Pos Hard Hit %
1 Alexander Penney ON St. Benedict Catholic Secondary School 2030 1B 40 %
2 Reggie Mills ON Waterdown District High School 2030 1B 37 %
3 Liam McCready ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 OF 11 %
4 Carter Elliott ON Nelson High School 2030 RHP 8 %
5 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 7 %

LINE DRIVE %

Rank Name State School Class Pos Line Drive %
1 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 83 %
2 Hudson Cammisuli ON St. Stephen Secondary 2030 RHP 61 %
^ Domenico Di Nardo ON Assumption College School 2030 OF 61 %
3 Marquise Gordon ON TBD 2031 SS 53 %
4 Owen Sedlak ON St. James Catholic High School 2030 C 50 %
^ Nathan Serafini ON Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School 2030 1B 50 %
^ Christian Lopez ON Christ the King Catholic Secondary School 2030 2B 50 %
^ Clark Robinson ON Donald A. Wilson Secondary School 2030 LHP 50 %
5 Jackson Brock ON NHS 2030 RHP 44 %
6 Austin Lobsinger ON St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic School London Ontario 2030 OF 42 %
^ Curtis Brown Jr. ON Henry Street H.S. 2030 C 42 %

SWEET SPOT %

Rank Name State School Class Pos Sweet Spot %
1 Nathan Serafini ON Lo-Ellen Park Secondary School 2030 1B 100 %
2 Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 83 %
3 Lucas Spourgitis ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 1B 72 %
4 Hudson Cammisuli ON St. Stephen Secondary 2030 RHP 69 %
^ Marquise Gordon ON TBD 2031 SS 69 %
5 Clark Robinson ON Donald A. Wilson Secondary School 2030 LHP 66 %
^ Jacob Feret ON Brooklin High School 2031 1B 66 %
6 Noah Reed ON Maxwell Heights Secondary School 2030 LHP 62 %
7 Luke Tilson ON Not listed 2030 C 61 %
^ Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 61 %
^ Domenico Di Nardo ON Assumption College School 2030 OF 61 %

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.

VALD PERFORMANCE

30-YARD SPLIT

Rank Name State School Class Pos 30-yd
1 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 3.93 s
2 Noah Reed ON Maxwell Heights Secondary School 2030 LHP 4.17 s
3 Reggie Mills ON Waterdown District High School 2030 1B 4.18 s
4 Liam McCready ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 OF 4.20 s
5 Ethan Hoffmann ON n/a 2030 OF 4.22 s
^ JJ Mak ON Upper Canada College 2030 OF 4.22 s
^ Cameron Anderson ON Bowmanville High School 2030 SS 4.22 s
6 Sylas Turner ON unlisted 2030 1B 4.24 s
7 Marquise Gordon ON TBD 2031 SS 4.26 s
^ Carter Elliott ON Nelson High School 2030 RHP 4.26 s
^ Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 4.26 s

10-YARD SPLIT

Rank Name State School Class Pos 10-yd
1 Jaziah Harris ON St peters 2030 SS 1.67 s
2 Carter Elliott ON Nelson High School 2030 RHP 1.76 s
3 JJ Mak ON Upper Canada College 2030 OF 1.79 s
^ Noah Reed ON Maxwell Heights Secondary School 2030 LHP 1.79 s
4 Marquise Gordon ON TBD 2031 SS 1.81 s
^ Liam McCready ON Bill Crothers Secondary School 2030 OF 1.81 s
^ Reggie Mills ON Waterdown District High School 2030 1B 1.81 s
^ Sylas Turner ON unlisted 2030 1B 1.81 s
5 Seita Tanaka ON Garth Webb Secondary School 2030 RHP 1.82 s
^ Max Moretto ON Holy Names 2030 LHP 1.82 s
^ Noah Fernandez ON St. Stephen Catholic Secondary School 2030 SS 1.82 s

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