On Tuesday, October 5, the PBR Illinois staff traveled to Glen Ellyn, Illinois, to host the Team Easton Scout Day at the College of DuPage. This event gave our staff an opportunity to get an up close look at roughly 40+ prospects from the Team Easton travel program, representing the 2022-to-2025 graduating classes.

Now, at the event’s conclusion, our staff will begin to roll out several pieces from the day, starting with this statistical analysis. Below we’ll highlight which prospects topped our individual leaderboards from the workout portion and provide a brief nugget on a few standouts.

As the week rolls on, our team will continue to produce post-event pieces from this showcase, so be on the lookout for those.

STAT STORY

+ RHP Tom Ford (Lisle, 2024) emerged as a follow prospect on the mound in the state’s current sophomore class. A lanky, long-limbed 6-foot-5, 175-pound right-hander, Ford led all prospects in attendance with an 84 mph high with his fastball, sitting at 80-83 mph throughout his ‘pen.

+ INF Rocco Tenuta (St. Francis, 2023) popped as a physical 5-foot-10, 180-pound athlete with noteworthy bat strength at this event. Tenuta paced all hitters in max exit velocity, recording a 99 mph high off the barrel, and his average mark of 90.98 mph also led the group. He also led all infielders from this event in max throwing velocity.

+ OF/LHP Ryan Klukas (Lemont, 2023) was the event leader in max outfield velocity, topping at 84 mph on his best throw to home. He also hopped on the mound later on in his workout and ran his fastball up to 82 mph from the left side with intriguing spin metrics to pair - 2,236 peak spin rate while averaging 18.2 inches of Induced Vertical Break from a 5.24 ft. average release height. Klukas' slider led all pitchers in average RPM at 2,329 as well. 

TOP 60-YARD DASH

MAX FASTBALL VELOCITY

MAX EXIT VELOCITY

MAX INFIELD VELOCITY

MAX OUTFIELD VELOCITY

MAX CATCHER VELOCITY

TOP POP TIMES

For a look at the complete statistics from this event, click HERE. 

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