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Super 60 : Indiana History

January 31, 2025
Cooper Trinkle
Indiana Scouting Director

History

The Super 60 is fast approaching and offers a number of alums that have inked professional baseball contracts. Indiana boasts 37 alum that signed professionally, all highlighted below, with an in-depth look at the alumni as a whole covered at this link. 

Last year the 2024 group totaled over $17 million in signing bonuses, with Indiana natives and Super 60 alum RHP Cam Sullivan (7th rd, Mt. Vernon) and RHP Griffin Tobias (9th rd, Lake Central) combining to make $775k in last years' draft. 

The Indiana class of 2023 Super 60 alum enjoyed the largest payday, largely due to Max Clark's 7.7 million dollar signing bonus as the third overall pick (Franklin Community). Bishop Letson (11th rd, Floyd Central) is a noteworthy alum, cashing in on a $482k bonus. Letson spent 2024 in A-ball while Clark was elevated to high-A for the final 34 games of the season after spending the first 73 in A-ball.

Both alum in 2022, 2022 3B Cameron Decker (18th rd, Evansville North) & 2022 RHP Gage Stanifer (19th rd, Westfield) signed professional contracts following their prep careers. Decker clubbed 20 doubles and 12 homers for the Dodgers A-ball affiliate while Stanifer pitched in a starters' role for the Blue Jays A-ball affiliate in 2024. 

Eight other hoosier state natives who are Super 60 alum have inked professional contracts out of high school, including first rounders; 2012 OF/LHP Trey Ball ($2.75 million, New Castle), 2015 RHP Nolan Watson ($1.825 million, Lawrence North), and 2010 C Justin O'Conner (1.025 million, Cowan). Watson is the only player still active of these three, spending 2024 in AAA. 2009 C Tucker Barnhart (10th rd, Brownsburg) and 2013 SS Josh Van Meter (5th rd, Norwell) are the only two to make it to the big leagues after signing out of high school. Barnhart is the longest tenured big leaguer of the group entering his 12th season in 2025, while Van Meter has four seasons of big league experience and spent 2024 with the Yankees AAA affiliate. 2015 RHP Cody Mobley (8th rd, Mount Vernon), 2013 LHP Daniel Ayers (25th rd, Columbus North), and 2017 RHP Chandler Ferguson (27th rd, Lafayette Jefferson) also inked pro contracts following big Super 60 showings. In total, Indiana boasts fourteen players signed from the Super 60 out of high school, with a combined bonus of $16.245 million.

Now - taking a look at the alum that signed out of college, we have 23 in total. Of this group, 2017 RHP Drey Jameson ($1.4 million, Greenfield-Central) is the only first rounder. He joins 2013 LHP Josh Rogers (11th rd, New Albany) and 2014 SS Zack Mckinstry (27th rd, FW North Side) as alum from this group who have reached the big leagues. 2011 1B AJ Reed (1.35 million, Terre Haute South) was a second rounder who also reached the big leagues after signing a seven figure deal out of college. 2016 OF Matt Gorski ($1 million, Hamilton Southeastern) and 2021 RHP Khal Stephen ($1.16 million, Seeger) also signed seven figure deals out of college, both going in the second round, with Gorski reaching AAA in 2024. In total, the college signs combined for a $8.05 million dollar signing bonus, bringing the overall total to $24.295 million worth of draft signing bonuses from Indiana players who have attended this event. 

Several alum were still playing affiliated professional baseball at the end of 2024 and are listed by highest level reached in 2024: (AAA) 2017 RHP Adisyn Coffey (3rd rd, Delta), 2015 INF Devin Mann (5th, Columbus North), (AA) 2017 C/OF Zach Britton (5th, Batesville), 2018 OF Grant Richardson (17th rd, Fishers), 2018 RHP Garrett Burhenn (9th rd, Lawrence North), (A+) 2018 RHP Jared Poland (6th rd, Cathedral), 2020 RHP Ty Johnson (15th rd, Lawrence North), 2018 INF Timmy Borden (37th rd, Providence),(A) 2021 RHP Luke Hayden (8th rd, Edgewood).

More Notable Alum - 2016 RHP Michael McAvene (3rd rd, Roncalli), 2013 RHP Zack Brown (5th rd, Seymour), 2015 RHP JJ Montgomery (7th rd, Lawrence Central), 2012 RHP Zac Ryan (23rd rd, Andrean), 2019 RHP Reese Sharp (28th rd, University), 2014 OF Logan Sowers (28th, McCutcheon),  2014 OF Tre' Gantt (29th, Hamilton Southeastern), 2015 RHP Noah Burkholder (34th rd, Crown Point)