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Ventura, Calif. - The Uncommitted Spotlight Series takes a dive back into the 2025 class as this class begins its SR. year of High School there are still several talented uncommitted players in this class who figure prominently in our Class of 2025 Rankings.  All players featured within our Uncommitted Spotlight series are ones that college coaches and fans should be keeping their eyes on over the coming months.

We invite you to get to know them through the eyes of our Prep Baseball California staff of scouts both through our in person looks at players and/or the data-backed numbers collected at our events with our partnered companies. TrackMan, Blast Motion, and Swift Performance provide comparable data to project and evaluate players. All of these systems come together to give a clear picture at what colleges will get when a players steps onto their campus.

Today, we put the spotlight on the number 350 ranked player in the 2025 class in SoCal '25 C Kieran Babai from San Marcos High School. Babai has an compact athletic build at 5'10 175 lbs. that at present has some strength to it with room to continue adding as he matures. With solid athletic ability including a 7.36 60 time with mobility/flexibility in his lower half which both combine to show up in the actions he shows behind the plate. Babai is polished smooth receiver with a soft glove, strong wrists, and very quiet actions in his pitch presentation while being a good blocker with command of his tools behind the plate. Babai flashes solid on his throws with pop times down to the low 2.0 range, but can still continue to add arm strength to his profile to reach his full potential as a thrower.

With a profile defensively that projects to stay at the premium spot of catcher long term, the RH hitting Babai also presents a toolset at the plate to add offensive value to a college lineup with his potential at the plate. His operation at the plate is sound with a balanced set up while utilizing a quiet load with feel to get to the launch position on time. His swing relies on the quickness in his hands and ability to use his hips while showing leverage/lift in his quick compact bat path.  Babai has shown well on his swing metrics including hand speed up to 21.9 MPH with quality bat speed at 68.4 MPH while adding quality torque in his turn with 13.8 G's of rotational acceleration. His batted ball data from Trackman shows the quality of his offensive profile including a max exit velocity up to 91.2 MPH while averaging 84.2 MPH. The batted ball data, swing metrics, bat path and approach project a middle of the field doubles power hitter who will show HR power to the pull side of the field giving him the ability to provide depth to a college lineup from a premium defensive spot.

Babai has been a 2 year member of the San Marcos varsity baseball squad playing in a reserve role on their 2023 CIF-SS D3 runner up squad before assuming the full time position behind the plate during his JR. campaign in 2024. As well, Babai has spent his falls playing on the San Marcos football squad as a linebacker/defensive back with his two-sport background there is athleticism/strength with room to see future development as he focuses on baseball full time in the future. A polished receiver with good glove work/blocking skills, a solid arm to go with his offensive potential Babai is a strong uncommitted '25 to be keeping eyes on.

College coaches and fans be sure to click on Babai's profile to see full video and information.