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Central Washington Preseason ID: Statistical Release

February 23, 2022
By: Diego Solares
Associate Scout, Staff Writer

On Monday, February 21st, the PBR Washington and Oregon staff hosted the Central Washington Preseason ID. The final event on our winter calendar, this event featured prospects from the 2022-to-2025 grad classes in the Pacific Northwest and Idaho and served as an early identifier for our staff as the high school season is set to begin.

PBR events such as this provide players with the opportunity to build their profile with the most up-to-date information and video footage before heading into the off-season. All players in attendance receive an online profile with their verified statistics, player report, picture and video. Additionally, all subsequent stories written about a prospect will be linked to the player’s profile, ultimately creating a one-stop shop for recruiters.

Showcases help identify which prospects have asserted themselves towards the top of their class as well as who might be one of the next youngsters to emerge onto the scene. They also serve as potential identifiers for invite-only events such as our Future Games and Junior Future Games.

We’ll begin our post-event process from today’s event inside this statistical release, which will highlight some of the top statistical performances from both events. This piece will feature the top outputs from Sunday’s event.

Before we go any further, here are a few names that popped: 

+ OF/RHP Emerson Fleck (Mead, 2024) put up an all-around impressive workout and found his name at or near the top of several statistical categories. The 6-foot-2, 170-pound sophomore ran the day’s fastest 60-yard dash (6.85) and uncorked the hardest throw home from the outfield (85 mph) as well. Fleck hopped on the mound afterwards and bumped his fastball up to 84 mph, sitting at 82-83 mph. It was an intriguing up-to-date look at a top-40 prospect in Washington’s sophomore class. 

+ One of a handful of Idaho prospects in attendance, LHP Austin DeBoer (Post Falls, 2024) certainly popped as an intriguing name-to-know sophomore. Standing at 6-foot-2, 182-pounds, the southpaw pumped the day’s hardest fastball at 86 mph, sitting at 83-85 mph throughout his ‘pen. He complimented his heater with two secondaries - a low-70s curveball and mid-70s changeup. 

+ Another Idaho native to pop at Monday’s event was 1B/RHP Christopher Ricard (Lewiston, 2023). The 6-foot-3, 220-pound junior took arguably the event’s most physical round of BP as he reached a max exit velocity of 100.5 mph. Ricard maintained that juice throughout as he averaged 93 mph off the barrel with an 83.3% hard-hit rate (percentage of batted balls in a given event that were 95+ mph). He took that strength to the mound and ran his fastball up to 85 mph, sitting at 82-84 mph in his ‘pen. 

+ MIF Christopher Parkin (Columbia River, 2024) was another name to appear at or near the top of multiple statistical categories. The 6-foot, 180-pound sophomore ran a 7.15 in the 60-yard dash and led the event in max infield velocity (80 mph) while finishing towards the top in max outfield velocity (81 mph) as well. Perkin also recorded the day’s second hardest hit ball at 94.1 mph in BP. 

+ C Xavier Hatternburg (Mead, 2024) made another positive impression at Monday’s event. The 6-foot, 165-pound left-handed hitting backstop peaked at 93 mph in BP - good for the third highest mark of the entire event. Where Hattenburg really impressed was behind the plate, as he utilized a quick release from the crouch to pop the day’s best time at 1.98 seconds.

+ 1B/RHP Broden Palmer (Southridge, 2023), 3B/RHP Castle Keaton (Joel E. Ferris, 2023), and LHP Caiden Thomsen (Kamiakin, 2023; Portland) all ran their fastballs up to 84 mph at the event. 

+ One of the few 2025 prospects on this roster, C Sonny Salazar (Othello) built off his performance at the Underclass Fall Classic with yet another strong statistical showing to our scouts. Built at 5-foot-11, 190-pounds, Salazar displayed above-average bat strength for his age in BP by reaching a peak batted distance of 330 feet with his loudest barrel clocking in at 92 mph. Salazar’s quickest pop to second clocked in at 2.08 seconds and he topped at 73 mph while working out of the chute. 

Read below and see which players popped amongst their peers from a numerical perspective.

STATISTICAL RELEASE

TOP 60-YARD DASH

MAX FASTBALL VELOCITY

MAX EXIT VELOCITY

infield arm strength

OF ARM STRENGTH

C ARM STRENGTH

To see all of the stats collected from this event, click HERE.

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