Prep Baseball Report

Commitment Trends - May 2019 - April 2020


Eddie Tisdale
Scouting Director - PBR South Carolina







Diving Deeper into the Numbers


Commitments by Class
2019 - 34
2020 - 194
2021 - 17
2022 - 7
2023 - 3
2024 - 1


34 - 2019 Grads reported commitments during the last 12 months.
(May, June, July, August of 2019) 
17- May 2019
14 - June 2019
2 - July 2019
1 - August 2019
 
194 - 2020 Grads reported commitments during the last 12 months.
- The 194 2020 grads makes up 75% of all reported commitments over this time span.  
- 89% (172 of 194) of reported 2020 commitments happened after Aug. 1 of their SR year.
- 24 players (38%, 24 of 63 of D1 commitments) reported Div. 1 commitments after Aug. 1 of their SR year.
 
 84% (214 of 256) players who reported commitments remained in the state of SC. 
- SC: 214
- NC: 18
- GA: 6
- FL: 5
- MS: 4
- NY, IN, LA, MA, PA, VA, TX, TN, KY: 1 Each 



 
COMMITMENTS BY COLLEGE
- Commitments over the last 12 months.
- 2019 Commitments were summer signees during May, June, July, August.
 
COLLEGE Division 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 TOTAL 
Army (NY) I - - 1 - - - 1
ASA College - Miami JC 1  -  -  -  -  - 1
Anderson II - 4 - - - - 4
Belmont Abbey (NC) II - 1 - - - - 1
Charleston Southern  I -
The Citadel I 1 6 10
Clemson University  I - 2 3 1 -
Cleveland CC (NC) JC - 2
Coker College II -
College of Charleston I 1 2 2 - 1 - 6
Columbia International  NAIA -
Duke (NC) I  -  1
East Carolina (NC) I - - - 1 - - 1
Eastern Univ III - -
Eastern Kentucky I  - 1
Erskine  II 3 7 10
Florence Darlington Tech JC 1 13 14 
Francis Marion II -
Furman I -
Gardner Webb (NC) I -
Georgia Tech (GA) I -
Gulf Coast CC (FL) JC - 1 - - - - 1
Indiana I - - - -
King Univ. (TN) II -
LaGrange (GA) III - 1 - - - - 1
Lassell Univ. (MA) III - 1 - - - - 1
Lander II - 10 10 
Limestone II - 10  10 
Louisiana State (LA) I - -
Lynchburg (VA) III - 1
Mars Hill (NC) II -
Mississippi State (MS) I - 1
Mount Olive (NC) II - 1 - - - - 1
NC A&T (NC) I - 1 - - - - 1
Newberry  II 2 8 - - - - 10 
North Greenville II - 3 1 - - - 4
NW Florida State  JC - 1 - - - - 1
Pfeiffer III -
Presbyterian  I -
San Jacinto (TX) JC
Savannah State (GA) II - 1 - - - - 1
South Carolina  I - 2
Southeastern CC (NC) JC 3
Southern Wesleyan II 2 5
Spartanburg Methodist JC 4 7 - - - - 11
St. Andrews (NC) NAIA - 1 - - - - 1
St. Johns River (FL) JC - 1 - - - - 1
St. Leo (FL) II -
Toccoa Falls (GA) NCCAA - 1 - - - - 1
Truett McConnell (GA) NAIA - 1 - - - - 1
UNC Ashville (NC)  I - - 1 - - - 1
USC-Aiken II - 1 - - - - 1
USC-Beaufort NAIA  1 1 -
USC-Lancaster JC - 16  16 
USC-Salkehatchie  JC 8 16  24 
USC-Sumter JC 6 12 18
USC-Union JC -
USC Upstate JC  -
Western Carolina  I 1
Winthrop I - 3 2 - - - 5
Wofford I - 1 - 1 - - 2


*Please note that commitments are self-reported by prospects, their coaches, media outlets, and the general public. PBR South Carolina cannot guarantee that every player who has made a college commitment is on this list. Additionally, with the nature of verbal commitments players may have de-committed from their original commitment and re-opened their recruitment since this publication.