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Welcome to 2020 and welcome back to our Spring Forward series. While it may still be early February, the high school season is just around the corner, with public school tryouts beginning in just a few weeks. In mid-February, we will begin our detailed season preview, including Region breakdowns, Power 25 reveal, and the Preseason All-PBR Team. In the meantime, we will continue gearing up for the season by highlighting some storylines that we are keeping our eyes on this spring in this series.

This week, we will be looking at some of the top hitters in each region of our coverage area. While some of these players are top prospects, one doesn't have to be a Power 5 commit to be the centerpiece of an offense and hit .400+ or flirt with double-digit home runs in a season. Below are the players we are expecting dominant offensive seasons from, the kind of player that an opposing team has to gameplan around and that opposing coaches are very aware of when they are due up.

Inevitably, we will leave players off this list who go on to have outstanding springs, and we look forward to seeing those breakout players and celebrating them as the season goes on.

Beach and Western Impact Bats 

Name	Position	High School	Class	Commitment
Carrington Aaron	SS	Chatham	2023	Virginia Tech
Kade Abrisz	C	Menchville	2021
Kody Abrisz	SS	Menchville	2020
Ethan Anderson	C	Frank Cox	2022	Virginia
Cade Brewer	C	Salem (Beach)	2020	Old Dominion
Nic Britt	SS/RHP	Greenbrier Christian	2020	William & Mary
Ryland Brown	OF	Greenbrier Christian	2020	Louisburg JC
Grayson Bush	SS	Monticello	2020	Randolph-Macon
Jalen Buster	SS	Cave Spring	2020	Radford
Noah Canterbury	OF/LHP	Buffalo Gap	2021
Trey Carter	OF/RHP	Carlisle	2020	Florida State
Jackson Cherry	OF	Jefferson Forest	2020	Mercer
Addison Clark	OF	Carlisle	2021	VMI
Jonathan Compton	C	Gate City	2020	Walters State CC
Colton Copley	SS	Fuqua	2020
Tyler Cotten	C	Grafton	2020	Charlotte
Isaih Dailey	OF	Prince Edward	2020	VMI
Tyler Dean	SS	William Byrd	2021	Virginia Tech
Carson DeMartini	SS	Ocean Lakes	2021	Virginia Tech
Leighton Dunford	RHP/2B	Fort Chiswell	2020
Zach Dzarnowski	C	Hickory	2020	UMBC
Grant Elliot	OF	Tunstall	2020	UNC Pembroke
Luke Francisco	2B	Abingdon	2021
Braeson Fulton	C	Riverheads	2020	James Madison
Connor Fuhrman	OF	Lord Botetourt	2022	South Carolina
Jared Glinski	C	Brookville	2020	Radford
Clay Grady	SS	Nansemond River	2022	Virginia Tech
Dylan Hatfield	C	William Byrd	2021	Virginia Tech
Kaden Hilburger	SS	Tabb	2022
Dane Hoggard	3B	Cape Henry Collegiate	2020	Seton Hall
Chase Hungate	SS	Abingdon	2021	VCU
Kennedy Jones	1B	Maury	2021
Trent Jones	OF/RHP	Cape Henry Collegiate	2020	Hampden-Sydney
Alvin Keels	SS	Maury	2022	Miami
Christian Martin	SS	Amherst County	2021	Virginia Tech
Corbin McCloud	C	Atlantic Shores Christian	2020	Longwood
Ethan Ott	1B	Greenbrier Christian	2021
Grant Painter	SS	Riverheads	2020	James Madison
Tristan Shoemaker	SS	Fort Defiance	2021	Virginia
Jordan Smith	OF	Kellam	2020	George Mason
Bennett Shealor	C	Blacksburg	2022	George Mason
Parker Stallard	OF	Salem (Salem)	2020	Virginia Tech
Preston Steele	SS	Lebanon	2021	Virginia Tech
Bryce Suters	SS	Broadway	2021	James Madison
Quade Tomlin	SS	Liberty Christian	2020	Liberty
Jeremy Wagner	OF	Miller School	2020	Austin Peay
Tayshuan Walton	OF	Greensville County	2023	Miami
Michael Williams	SS	Franklin County	2021	Radford
Austin Younce	C	Greenbrier Christian	2021

 

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