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Welcome to 2020 and the return of 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 a little over a month. 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 begin gearing up for the season by highlighting some storylines that we are keeping our eyes on this spring in this series.

This week, we continue looking at some of the top pitchers in each region of our coverage area. While some of these players are top prospects, one doesn't have to throw 92 to be a dominant high school pitcher. Our focus in these stories will be the arms that we think have a chance to carry their teams as true aces this spring and put together a monster season. Some teams that have deep staffs have been omitted from this list because they might operate more by committee than leaning on a true ace.

As always, these are the pitchers that we think are likely to have big seasons, invariably someone that we leave off this list will have an outstanding season and we look forward to following those players' performances this spring.

Beach and West Impact Arms 

Name	Position	High School	Class	Commitment
Tyler Bowes	RHP	Hickory	2020	Radford
Nic Britt	SS/RHP	Greenbrier Christian	2020	William & Mary
Matthew Buchanan	LHP	Lebanon	2021	Virginia
Ethan Chenault	RHP	Miller School	2020	UNC Wilmington
Ethan Firoved	LHP	First Colonial	2020	Virginia Tech
Tyler Dean	RHP	William Byrd	2021	Virginia Tech
Isaac Fix	LHP	William Byrd	2021
Trey Gibson	RHP	Grafton	2020	Liberty
Nick Griffin	RHP	Turner Ashby	2020
Landon Higgerson	RHP	Great Bridge	2020	Radford
Tyler Horton	LHP	Princess Anne	2020	Radford
Jordan Irrizarry	LHP	Princess Anne	2021	Campbell
Garrett Kangas	RHP	Carlisle	2021	Campbell
Brady Kirtner	RHP	Christiansburg	2020	Virginia Tech
Christian Lancaster	RHP	Chatham	2021
Reid Long	RHP	Western Branch	2020
Avery Mabe	RHP	George Wythe	2020	Virginia
Garrett Payne	RHP	Miller School	2020	NC State
Andrew Ramos	RHP	Lafayette	2020	Randolph-Macon
Drew Stanley	RHP	Hickory	2020	Longwood
Andrew Ward	LHP	Fluvanna County	2020	VCU
Nicholas Willard	RHP	York	2020	Liberty
Christian Worley	RHP	Halifax County	2020	Virginia Tech

 

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