Prep Baseball Illinois Best of 2024: Top Fastball Velocity
November 27, 2024
With our 2025 event calendar on the horizon, our staff has dedicated some time to reflect on the top statistical performers that we saw at our events in 2024. We'll be shining some light on Illinois natives who put up loud numbers in 2024, showcasing their tools to our staff at Prep Baseball Illinois events.
These leaderboards were compiled solely based on numbers at our state events, including Super 60, Preseason IDs, All-States, Open events, Scout Days, Future Games, and the All-American Game, too.
To see all of the events we ran this year, click HERE.
For a full list of our 2025 winter calendar that includes our upcoming events, click HERE.
Check out the Leaderboard stories that we've rollout the last weeks:
This week, we rolled out top catcher velocities and pop times. Today we will look into the Top Fastball velocity from 2024.
By the numbers breakdown:
- 51 prospects had an max fastball velocity over 89.0 mph across all four grad classes.
- 25 2025 prospects had an max fastball velocity over 89.1 mph.
- 25 2026 prospects had an max fastball velocity over 87.5 mph.
- 15 2027 prospects had an max fastball velocity over 85.1 mph.