Prep Baseball Report

2026 Rising Stars Games: Trackman Hitting Leaders


Sammy Esposito
PB SC Director of Scouting

The South Carolina Rising Stars Games event features the best 2030 and 2031 prospects in the state. The event took placed on Tuesday, June 2nd at the College of Charleston.

All position players will showcase their talents in a pro-style workout. Following the workout, players will branch off into teams (selected by the Prep Baseball staff) for live gameplay. Pitchers will be evaluted during the gameplay portion of the event. Each player will participate in one game.

This event will also serve as a main identifier for invitations to the Junior Future Games in late July. The Junior Future Games will run in conjunction with Prep Baseball's Future Games. The Future Games features the top High School players in the Class of 2028 from across Prep Baseball's 40+ state coverage area. It is one of the most highly recruited events of the summer and attracts more than 300 college coaches from across the country each year.

The Junior Future Games, an Invitation-Only event, will feature the best identified prospects from across the country in a four-day tournament at Lake Point in Cartersville, GA. This state-of-the-art facility features 8 all-turf fields. Participants will compete against other top-level players while representing their respective state.

Below is a statistical breakdown from the event.

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Trackman Leaders - Hitting

PEAK EXIT VELOCITY

TrackMan is able to track every ball hit into fair territory, throughout the BP sessions.  Below are the exit velocities produced by individual players.

AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY

The average exit velocity measures a players ability to consistently produce hard contact.  The average was taken based on every ball tracked by TrackMan throughout the player's BP session.

DISTANCE OFF THE BAT

TrackMan is able to measure and track the ball while in the air.  For every fair ball put in play it will display the distance the hit traveled.

Peak Distance - Best of the Hitter’s Session

Average Distance - Average of each ball tracked in the Session

LAUNCH ANGLE PERCENTAGE

Based on the ball flight, TrackMan is able to identify each hit as a ground ball, line drive, or fly ball.  While there are many factors as to why a hitter may approach each pitch in a certain way, the overall groupings of BP can give some insight to each hitter's approach.

Line Drive %

Fly Ball %

Ground Ball %


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