The PBR IA Juco Scout Day- Iowa Central CC event took place Thursday, September 1st, 2022. The event was held at Iowa Central's brand-new full turf field located at the Harlan Rogers Sports Complex in Fort Dodge, IA.

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We’re continuing our post-event analysis by examining the data measured by our TrackMan units. The technology is able to capture information that’s difficult to capture by the naked eye, like pitch-by-pitch metrics and batted-ball data. We’ll explain more below:

TRACKMAN PITCHING LEADERBOARD

       

 

                   

 

                 

 

           

FASTBALL STATS

    

Max Fastball Velocity: This metric calculates the speed of the pitch as it’s released from the pitcher’s hand.

Spin Rate: This metric calculates the rate of spin on the baseball as it leaves the pitcher’s hand, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm). Historical data shows that high-spin fastballs lessen the impact of gravity, allowing for more ‘rise’ (or less fall, in other words) as it carries through the zone. Low-spin fastballs typically indicate the pitch has greater horizontal action, often making it tougher to square up, but generally easier to make contact with, leading to more ground balls, while high-spin fastballs show a correlation with swings and misses.

 

Peak Velocity

Average Effective Velocity

Effective velocity is taking into account the velocity of each pitch, it release distance, the pitches time to the plate / hitting area, and the pitches movement.  With all of this information, Effective Velocity is allowing coaches and scouts to more accurately compare how a pitch is affecting a hitter.

 

Peak Spin Rate

Rank	Name	School	HS Grad Year	Pos	Spin Rate (max)
1	Josh Kirchhoff	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	2605 rpm
2	Cole Bormann	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2597 rpm
3	Cael Eck	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2486 rpm
4	Kole Bradley	Eastern Illinois	2020	LHP	2466 rpm
5	Isaiah Byrkeland	Iowa Central CC	2021	LHP	2452 rpm
6	Maxwell Aug	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2377 rpm
7	Austin Bergum	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2373 rpm
8	Ian Culver	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	2169 rpm
9	Andrew Boeser	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2161 rpm
10	Andrew Regner	Iowa Central CC	2019	SS	2127 rpm
11	Jackson Kendall	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	2111 rpm
12	Hunter Frost	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	2088 rpm
13	Jackson Tessman	Iowa Central CC	2022	3B	2079 rpm
14	Anthony Steinhoff	Iowa Central CC	2022	LHP	2052 rpm
15	Evan Borst	Nebraska	2021	RHP	2002 rpm
16	Easton Johnson	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	2001 rpm
17	CJ Byrdak	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	1899 rpm
18	Oliver Parizek	Iowa Central CC	2021	RHP	1832 rpm
19	Nile Foss	Iowa Central CC	2020	LHP	1716 rpm
20	Owen Neros	Iowa Central CC	2022	RHP	1709 rpm

Average Spin Rate

Average Induced Vertical Movement

Average Horizontal Movement

Horizontal Break: Outlined on TrackMan’s own website: “... horizontal movement is measured in inches between where the pitch actually crosses the front of home plate side-wise, and where it would have crossed home plate side-wise if had it traveled in a perfectly straight line from release. A positive number means the break was to the right from the pitcher’s perspective, while a negative number means the break was to the left from the pitcher’s perspective.”

Max Spin Score

 

CURVEBALL STATS

Peak Spin Rate

 

Average Spin Rate

 

Average Induced Vertical Break

 

Average Horizontal Break

 

Max Spin Score

 

SLIDER STATS

Peak Spin Rate

 

Average Spin Rate

 

Average Induced Vertical Break

 

Average Horizontal Break