Prep Baseball Report

Rising Stars Top Performers: Outfield Velocity


Brett Harrison
Nevada Scouting Director

The Rising Stars brought out an impressive crop of talent and now we will see how the next generation fo talent stacks up against each other with the Rising Stars: Stat Leaderboard. From this group, players have been selected to represent Team Nevada at the upcoming Junior Future Games later this month in Cartersville, Georgia against the top 2024 and 2025 prospects in the country. 

This event was designed to educate the next generation of prospect on what the showcase environment would entail as well as getting the baseline information of each prospect to populate their PBR Player Profiles. These profiles will now be the place where PBR Staff, both locally and nationally, can provide input and updates to give these athletes every opportunity to achieve their goal of playing at the next level. 

We round out the Rising Star Top Performers with the Top Outfield Velocity, highlighted by Tee Southesine's 76 mph. Closely trailing Southisene is  Southern Nevada Baseball product teammate, Vandon Welter, who threw an accurate 74 mph from right field. These two prospects will be represent Team Nevada at the upcoming PBR Future Games, the premier baseball event of the summer. 

TOP Outfield VELOCITY

Rank Name State School Class Pos OF Velo
1 Tee Southisene NV Basic 2024 RHP 76
2 Vandon Welter NV Cy-Fair 2025 C 74
3 Gage Rinetti NV The Meadows 2024 OF 72
^ Evan Festa NV Coronado 2024 OF 72
4 Nicholas Blakeney NV Liberty HS 2025 LHP 66
5 Nate Gust NV Bishop Gorman 2025 OF 64
6 Hayden Hamel TX V.R. Eaton 2024 2B 59
^ Lucas Sideco NV Faith Lutheran 2025 OF 59

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The TrackMan Pitcher Update is coming Wednesday, July 15 to ETA (Elite Training Academy) for pitchers to update statistical categories on their PBR Profiles for players in the 2021-2024 classes.

THIS EVENT WILL BE LIMITED TO 30 PROSPECTS

Prospects will throw a 20 pitch TrackMan evaluated bullpen.

The TrackMan system provides the most advanced data retrieval insight on the market today. The TrackMan integrates with high-speed video, managing external cameras and capturing video clips directly into the app automatically – and pairing the video with each pitch. Pitchers can see the complete pitch trajectory in 3D, create defined tags to label and compare pitches, pin pitches together to create tunneling visualizations between different pitch types, and much more. Pitchers will have access to release speed, spin rate, spin axis, release height, extension, horizontal and vertical break and location on each pitch.

Key ball flight metrics will also live inside player profiles at PrepBaseballReport.com for the benefit of college coaches and recruiters, which will help prospects advance to the next level. Whether indoors or outdoors, the Portable tracks every ball with equal reliability to eliminate the necessity for guesswork. It combines the best of image tracking, radar technology and video analysis to output the most accurate data in every environment. 

Data has become the ultimate separator of prospects over the past few years and this event will provide an opportunity to see where your metrics stand currently. 

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