Unsigned Upperclass Spotlight: Bode Gaggero
May 26, 2025
The high school season is coming to a close as players start to turn their focus towards the summer circuit. The 2025 preseason showcase schedule got started in January with the Utah Preseason ID that featured roughly 60 prospects. We follow up the Preseason ID with our marquee event ahead of the HS season, the prestigeous Utah Preseason All-State that featured roughly 130 prospects with a large crop of the top talent in the State participating.
Our staff has had eyes on over 190 players these past couple months and with summer just about to begin, there is still a ton of quality uncommitted talent on the board in Utah's upperclass group. Over the next couple weeks, our staff will begin highlighting some of these names in our Unsigned Upperclass Spotlight—players who need to be on the radar of college coaches looking to round out their 2025 and 2026 classes.
We continue our Top Uncommitted Upperclass Spotlight Series with '26 SS/2B Bode Gaggero. The Future Games participant will be a player to watch this summer as he enters his senior year. Bode features a smooth lefty swing that produced an exit velocity of 98mph, and that number will only increase as he gets stronger. Standing at 6'0" 180lbs currently, he has a ton of room to grow and add muscle. Gaggero is currently ranked as the #5 '26 SS in Utah, and it will be exciting to watch him continue to develop this summer. This article will take a deeper dive into some of Gaggero's TrackMan hitting metrics, VALD Performance data, scouting reports, BLAST data, and scouting videos.
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Upcoming Events
| Showcase | State | Date | Location |
| 2025 ProCase - West | UT | 06/01 | Loyola Marymount University - Los Angeles, CA |
| Utah Top Prospect Games (Invite-Only) | UT | 07/14 | BYU (Miller Park) - Provo, UT |
| Senior Future Games (Class of 2026) | NATIONAL | 07/22 | LakePoint Sports |
| Future Games (Class of 2027) | NATIONAL | 07/23 | LakePoint Sports |
| Junior Future Games (Class of 2029/30) | NATIONAL | 07/24 | LakePoint Sports |
Scouting Report
Dylan Frank, Bingham (UT), 2025
Positional Profile: OF/2B Moved to Utah from the Sacramento are before his sophomore year. A Future Games/West Coast Games alum that has fallen through some cracks. Quality D2/High JC type tools. Great makeup!
Body: 6-1, 180-pounds. Tall lean athletic with a streamlined look and twitch
Hit: RHH. Semi crouched slightly open even prop stance. Solid separation between the load and front foot strike LD all fields gap power with occasional pull side juice. More LD alley to alley vs over the fence 79.5 mph bat speed with 10 G's of rotational acceleration.
Power: 99 max exit velocity, averaged 88.0 mph. 332' max distance. Power alley juice and sprays the ball around the field with 100 max EV's.
Arm: RH. OF-88 mph. Can throw and the arm works properly with arm strength nd quality arm stroke.
Defense: Take proper routes and can play all 3 OF spots with solid reads and jumps.
ATH: 6.83 runner in the 60. Moves well with a gliding gate. 6.83/60 with instincts for balls in the dirt and looks for extra bases out of the box
One of Shooter Hunt’s top 75 (#39) impact position players of the Future Games, Gaggero’s father Nick, played for Utah Scouting Director~Jeff Scholzen in ‘95-‘96 at Southern Utah U. Bode was first ID’ed as a rising freshman in the summer of ‘22 at the Rising Stars ID at his home HS of American Fork and was promptly placed in the class of ‘28’s top 10 prospects. Gaggero has risen steadily since and was an everyday player this past year as the DH to get his bat in the lineup and also play 2B, when pitching rotations dictated a prospect at SS was pitching. Will take over at SS as a rising junior in ‘25. A lean athletic projectable 5-11 165, that has another 10-15 Lbs of maturity to his frame left as well as his man strength. The bat and glove are a tandem strength as well as he can run and throw and is an all around player with tools. The bat has a chance to really play as a high avg/high on-base type as his flat fluid on line stroke worn a two hand full whippy finish stays in the zone a long time with balance throughout the swing. Gets out of the box and has a fluid running gate and takes tight bellied out turns at the bag and looks for extra bases out of the box. The glove is clean and fluid with soft hands and educated feet and can make the back handed slide on the ground and pirouette and get up and finish the throw to get the runner. A 7.26/60 plays better than the number as the base running is instinctual and fundamentally sound in his decisions of when to take the extra base and also the ball in the dirt read. Enough arm for SS at the HS or mid-major level, but looks to be an offensive gold glove caliber 2B at the Power 4 level and there is no doubt in my mind that is where he will end up, as his phone was hopping on August 1st.