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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 245 ranked player in the 2025 class in SoCal '25 RHP/INF Wren Woods from Palos Verdes High School. Woods presents an athletic frame at 6' 180 lbs. that shows some present strength to it. His athleticism is solid including a 7.26 60 while reaching a top speed of 19 MPH. He shows good actions moving around the INF with solid footwork in his first step, rhythm to the ball and present arm accuracy to his throws that give him potential to play in 2B/3B at the next level. While his potential to handle the top two defensive spots in the INF he presents an quality RH hitting profile. His operation at the plate during batting practice and game play is simple with a balanced set up, a small load and ear height hands with a simple barrel tip load while showing a direct path with his hands/barrel from a hip/shoulder dominant rotation. Woods has present quickness to his swing metrics including hand speed up to 23.3 MPH with present bat speed at 74.3 MPH while adding good torque in his turn with 16.2 G's of rotational acceleration. His approach/timing and quality swing combine into good batted ball data from Trackman including a max exit velocity up to 92.8 MPH while averaging 87.2 MPH. The leverage in the swing path presents a gap to gap doubles with sneaky pull side HR power potential profile including a max distance of 313'. 

Where Woods takes his potential college level profile to the next step is once he takes the mound to pitch. He stays tall in his delivery riding the slope of the mound with his front side into foot strike with intent down the mound and then utilizes a quick arm path with present strength. He showed off an interesting two pitch mix at the CA State Games which backed up another impressive outing on the showcase circuit showing his present ability with potential for increased velocity/life to arsenal while polishing his pitching feel. Woods worked his FB up to 87 MPH  while sitting in the 84-86 MPH range while flashing feel to ride the pitch at the top of the zone with an average of 21.7" of IVB while throwing the pitch in the zone at a 86% clip. Pairing it with a 68-70 MPH CB which shows vertical depth to the break which pairs well with the riding FB to give him a North/South attack profile to his arsenal. As well, he threw his CB in the zone at an 80% clip giving him two promising offerings and with the addition of a third and the athleticism in his delivery shows a starters potential profile should he focus solely on pitching in the future.

As he prepares for his SR. campaign this fall/winter to compete for a prominent role in the lineup at Palos Verde which is looking to build on a very strong 2024 campaign. Woods has a chance to contribute in their potential success for the 2025 season and continue to flash his arrow up profile as a talented uncommitted '25.

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