Patrick
Foster

Patrick Foster, San Marcos Senior High (CA), 2027
Positional Profile: OF/LHP
Body: 5-8, 145-pounds. Long, athletic build, room to fill.
Hit: LHH. Wide stance with hands outward and low at shoulder level. Knees slightly bent. Great hip rotation. Tension in hips generates tons of torque. Pull-heavy hitter with fast, twitchy hands. 69.1 mph bat speed with 16 G's of rotational acceleration.
Power: 94 max exit velocity, averaged 88.2 mph. 344' max distance.
Arm: LH. OF-80 mph. High 3/4 release. Full back arm path. Long arm action with quick release. Projectable strength.
Defense: Long, calculated strides towards ball. Quick crow hop. Shows urgency.

Foster has been a bit of a conflicting profile for me over several different live scouting looks (multiple in 2024 and two games over MLK weekend). I talk consistently about “baseball tools” (hit, throw, defense) or “athletic tools” (physicality, speed, athleticism, power) and Foster possesses a strong set of baseball tools from his high quality LH swing which has consistently put the bat on the baseball with a line to line hard contact approach suited for a table-setter offensive profile to his instincts moving around in CF with good routes, range, and a solid accurate throwing arm. That toolset has helped him start on varsity from day one as a FR. in 2024 and is producing a current .432/.463/.469 slash line through 10 games with one double and more walks than strikeouts at present. Those baseball tools caught my attention from day one and continue to grow on me with his ability to play high quality baseball as a younger varsity player, but for me the tick up that I saw in his “athletic tools” has Foster rising for me. With some added strength to what is admittedly still a very wiry frame his LH swing was showing improved bat speed which allowed him to stay through the zone better for more leverage (drilled a pair of hard line drives to LF and stung a one hop single to CF in game) and clocked a 4.3 home to 1B time on the single showing improved foot speed. The arm also looked to have gained strength with the maturity to his frame showing low carry throws from CF throughout INF/OF with one hop accuracy to 3B/Home Plate. While a tick upwards on the “athletic tools” is a welcome development for a high quality player the ultimate height of his ceiling in the future as a college level player will come down to how much more he can develop his physicality to his body to take his high quality “baseball tools” to even higher levels through those gains.