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VENTURA, CALIF. - The Uncommitted Spotlight Series returns as we stare straight ahead towards the 2025 CIF High School baseball rapidly approach for the '26 class. With than in mind Prep Baseball California is highlighting some of the top uncommitted class of '26 athletes for college programs to be following come this spring. The player featured today is one of the top players in the state of California and figures prominently in our Class of 2026 Rankings. 

We invite you to get to know them through the eyes of our Prep Baseball California staff of scouts both through our in person looks at players and/or the data-backed numbers collected at our events with our partnered companies. TrackMan, Blast Motion, and VALD Performance provide comparable data to project and evaluate players. All of these systems come together to give a clear picture at what colleges will get when a players steps onto their campus.

Today, we put the spotlight on the #136 ranked player in the 2026 class in SoCal '26 C Brady Abner from El Dorado High School in Placentia, Ca. Abner is coming off an solid Soph. season at El Dorado where he was the everyday catcher for the Golden Hawks. In 28 games played Abner slashed .268/.362/.341 over 92 plate appearances/82 at bats. He knocked 6 doubles, drove in 14 runs while scoring 10 himself, plus he walked more than he struck out on the season 11 BBs/9 Ks. On the defensive side he posted a .984 fielding percentage behind the plate with just 3 errors on the season. 

The 6' 173.1 lbs. Abner is a wiry strong framed product who shows solid present tools across the board. On the defensive side he profiles as a solid defender at C(from workout and live game looks) with solid present arm strength (77 MPH C arm velocity) that shows accuracy with online carry to his throws posting a low of 2.07 seconds on his pop time at the OC Preseason ID. The glove is solid with feel to handle velocity/spin and quiet actions presenting pitches with solid agility moving behind the plate in his blocking technique.

At the plate he shows a quality RHH swing with a controlled forward move into the turn where he uses his lower 1/2, showing feel to use his hands and a compact direct swing path that has LVG to the gaps and loft to pull side. His Blast Motion data from the OC Preseason ID was strong with 23.1 MPH of hand speed, 72 MPH of bat speed, 19.2 Gs of rotational acceleration including a 57% sweet spot rate. To go with the strong swing metric data Abner showed a strong approach at the plate that generated quality batted ball data maxing out at 92 MPH on his exit velocity while averaging 85.2 MPH on Trackman with a 317' max distance to go with a 72% flyball/line drive rate during batting practice. 

Abner has built a solid foundation of tools and garnered strong experience on the varsity level at El Dorado playing a highly competitive schedule in Orange County. He appears primed to take the next step this spring and is a solid player at a premium defensive spot for college programs to be keeping tabs on over the coming months.

College coaches and fans be sure to click on Abner's profile to see full video and information.