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Uncommitted Spotlight: '25 OF/3B Anakin Manuel

March 11, 2024
Steven Hardesty
Central Coast/North LA Area Scout

  

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The Uncommitted Spotlight Series continues as we have started the '24 CIF High School baseball season Prep Baseball California is now highlighting some of the top uncommitted class of '25 athletes. The players featured are pulled directly from our '25 Class Rankings. These JR year players 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 and the data-backed numbers collected at our events with our partnered companies. TrackMan, Blast Motion, Swift Performance, and Visual Edge 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 a NorCal '25 OF/3B Anakin Manuel from Capuchino High School. With a strong 6'2 190 lbs frame that has wiry present strength to it Manuel looks the part of a future corner OF prospect and his tool set backs up the physical profile. With a balanced RH swing that sequences well to create torque up to 24.7 G's of rotational acceleration while showing good hand speed at 22.6 MPH. Manuel works from a middle to pull side approach with leverage in his bat path that allows him to drive the ball in the air consistently on a line. His batted ball data shows present potential with 94.9 MPH max exit velocity and an avg. exit velocity of 91.1 MPH that will play to doubles power through the middle of the field and pull side HR power with the leverage in his bat path. A solid athlete who runs the 60 in 7.16 seconds and shows 85 MPH OF arm velocity (although he will need to clean up his accuracy/release to be a more effective thrower). Manuel is an offensive profile corner OF bat who can be a solid average defender while adding length to a lineup. College programs would be wise to put his name on their '25 board to keep tabs on over the rest of the spring/summer slate.

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Scouting Report

10/08/23

Event: NorCal Uncommitted Games
Positional Profile: OF
Body: 6-2, 190-pounds. Broad powerful build, retains room for more size gains.
Hit: RHH. Wide stance, even feet, into legs early, up and down stride with small length, hands drop into powerful trigger position, doesn’t need a lot of swing to drive baseball, hands work inside and through contact, powerful top hand through contact, consistently produced hard hit balls with an abundance of line drives, easily generates hand speed, powerfully gets barrel into zone with high level efficiency, has ability to stay on plane while employing powerful stroke. 68.8 mph avg bat speed with 23.7 avg G's of rotational acceleration.
Power: 94.9 max exit velocity, 91.1 mph avg. 321' max distance.
Arm: RH. OF - 84 mph. Circular backside, ball comes out with low arc resulting in easily playable hops, throws stay on-line tracking to target, gets rid of ball well.
Defense: Calm focused approach, relaxed and confident in glove skills, fluid into throwing release, corner profile.
ATH: 7.16 runner in the 60, 1.69 and 3.94 in the 10 and 30 yard splits, 19.0 max run speed.

 

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