Prep Baseball Illinois Best of 2024: Top Hard Hit Percentage
December 9, 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:
- 60-yard
- Infield Velocity
- Outfield Velocity
- Catcher Velocity
- Pop Times
- Slider spin
- Changeup horizontal movement
- Max exit velocity
- Average exit velocity
- Max Distance
We will start week four of our 'Best Of' leaderboard stories with the Top Hard Hit Percentage from 2024.
By the numbers breakdown:
- 16 prospects had a hard hit percentage over 90 percent across all four grad classes.
- 7 2025 prospects had a hard hit percentage over 90 percent.
- 8 2026 prospects had a hard hit percentage 85 percent.
- 7 2027 prospects had a hard hit percentage over 75 percent.
TOP HARD HIT PERCENTAGE
Hard Hit percentage: This metric is the percentage of a player's batted balls that have an exit velocity of 90 mph or higher.