Today, we’re announcing the first winner of the year’s TwinTack Prep Baseball Player of the Month Award. March’s honor is being awarded to SS Kamrin Jenkins (Bob Jones HS, 2026), a Mizzou recruit who tallied 16 extra-base hits in 19 games, including eight home runs, which helped him record 19 RBIs and an OPS of 1.725.

We got the opportunity to speak with Jenkins about his torrid spring, which hasn’t slowed down since the calendar flipped to April, and he offered some insight into his year so far and how he’s been handling the added attention a stand-out performance at February’s Super 60 Pro Showcase earned him prior to spring’s opening day in Alabama.

---

Prior to this year, Jenkins had developed a reputation as one of the top prep prospects in the country, though he first established himself far from Madison, Ala., where he and his family reside today. Jenkins first burst onto the scene in Illinois in 2023, where he attended Oswego High School and spent three years at. He rocketed up Illinois’ own state rankings after a productive winter offseason that prepared him for a true break-out sophomore campaign, eventually earning an invitation to the Prep Baseball Future Games where he represented Team Illinois and thrived on his biggest stage yet.

He committed to Mizzou in the fall that followed his Future Games outbreak and he remained one of the Midwest’s top shortstop prospects all three years in Illinois.

Though, that’s when Jenkins decided it might be time to consider a move south for warmer weather and an increase in the level of competition.

His family landed on Bob Jones High in Alabama, one of the top programs in the region. The Patriots won Alabama’s 7A state title as recently as 2024 and they’ve curated a culture that’s produced nine MLB Draft picks, and Jenkins could ultimately become the latest one.

Kamrin Jenkins SS / Bob Jones, AL / 2026 "[Jenkins] couldn’t have scripted a louder opening weekend at his new school, pacing the Patriots to a pair of marquee wins while living on the barrel. The Missouri signee put up video-game numbers, going 6-for-7 with two doubles, one triple, three home runs, and nine RBIs in Saturday’s action. Slotted in the heart of a deep lineup, Jenkins showed the ability to lift the baseball with consistency, pairing excellent barrel length through the zone with the strength to keep the barrel through contact. The 6-foot, 194-pound shortstop moves with smooth, athletic actions and present twitch, and the power plays without needing to overswing. It was a statement weekend that underscored his status as one of the premier offensive prospects in the state." – PB Alabama Kickoff Classic Scout Blog (2/24/26)

“I like to chase the noise,” Jenkins said regarding his hunt to pit himself against the best of the best. “I want to face the best competition possible, you have to put yourself in those situations. Face the best guys, face the best arms. I feel like that keeps me locked in.”

There was little evidence of growing pains inside a completely new jersey, dugout, high school – even a whole new state. Bob Jones was shut out in its first game of the spring on Feb. 21, but Jenkins and the Pats rebounded right away against Central-Phenix City in a 14-3 rout that featured Jenkins’ first hit as a Patriot, a double in the first inning that helped open the scoring, followed by a grand slam in the fifth that broke a 3-3 tie.

(2/23/26)

That was his first of 13 home runs and counting this season, eight of which came in the month of March. A productive winter in which he said he put on about 20 pounds of muscle has helped him tune his swing to convert doubles into home runs at a premium rate.

“Honestly, some of these balls it feels like I'm just touching it and they’re going out,” Jenkins said. “I’m trying to hit line-drives. But if I lift it, I lift it.”

It must feel good for Jenkins to be back out at shortstop in the spring as well, after a shoulder issue prevented him from playing the position during his junior season back in Illinois, though he was playing the spot again in the summer. After all, it isn’t just Jenkins’ power profile that’s garnered attention from the pro scouting community, it’s the power plus his ability to handle shortstop while looking capable of handling the role at the next level.

He credits his move south and the facilities at Bob Jones as the reason why he’s as sharp as ever defensively.

“Coming down to Alabama, the reps I’ve gotten in, it’s completely different,” Jenkins said. “I go on the field whenever I want, in the morning, under the lights, bang out some groundballs. I feel like everything hit to me is an out.”

And while initially, there might have been some uncertainty to how the deep south’s scouts would receive Jenkins as a new, late add to their pref lists of players, the Super 60 in Chicago helped make sure they were aware of Jenkins’ name and his move south to Bob Jones. The Prep Baseball Super 60 has served as the perennial event that restarts the sprint to the summer’s MLB Draft, highlighting some up-and-coming prospects to know right before they explode in the spring.

There, Jenkins showed one of the most accurate barrels of all the prospects at this talent-laden showcase, recording a 97.6 mph average exit velocity (104.5 max), lifting baseballs naturally with some traveling well over 400 feet on TrackMan.

“He has a dynamic ability and willingness to challenge himself,” said Shooter Hunt, Prep Baseball VP of Scouting. “It's helped him make a seamless transfer from Illinois to Alabama and it has sped up his skill acquisition – with a chance for even bigger jumps to come.”

Jenkins followed up his offensive performance with one of the day’s better rounds of middle-infield defense, which perfectly teed him up to impress the scouting contingent back home in Alabama upon his return.

(Super 60; 2/1/26)

“The Super 60 definitely put me on the map a little more,” Jenkins said. “It let scouts know that I was coming down south. I did everything I wanted to do at that event, I checked all my boxes.”

The rest you know. He returned to Madison, homered inside his first six at-bats, and he hasn’t stopped. And despite being under the microscope now, more so than ever, Jenkins has responded by generating more runs than ever before and against an uptick in competition. With more and more scouts checking in on his progress this spring, Jenkins said it doesn’t bother him to see them closely monitoring his game.

“It just pushes me to be better.”

---

Related Content