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Yard Baseball Club Scout Day: Quick Hits

October 10, 2024
Eliott Wilk
Central Region Operations Director

On Saturday, September 28th, the Prep Baseball Missouri staff traveled to William Chrisman High School in Independence, MO to host the annual Yard Baseball Club Scout Day. This event, which is in its 4th year, featured 30+ players from the YBC program in attendence.

All of our events offer players the opportunity to update their recruiting resume and showcase their talents in front of our staff. We also use these events as identifiers for future invite-only events, like the Preseason All-State, our summer Top Prospect Games, and the prestigious Prep Baseball Future Games that takes place at the tail end of the summer. To see what our events offer, click HERE.

Earlier, our staff rolled out the day’s statistical standouts in leaderboard format within our ‘Stat Story’, which you can find HERE. Today, after combing through our notes from the day, we’ve compiled some of the event’s standouts within these ‘Quick Hits’. Read below to learn about 4 names that popped to our staff from Saturday's trip to Independence.

   

QUICK HITS

+ Long known to our staff, C Landen Danuser (Lone Jack, 2025) put together a strong performance in Saturday’s look, showing inherent raw strength in a 5-foot-9, 192-pound frame. A high end defender behind the plate, Danuser continues to add polish to his game, firing an event leading 80 mph bullet from the crouch and posting 1.89-1.96 pop times thanks to a quick, efficient transfer. In BP, the senior was consistently on the barrel, peppering line drives to right field, while flashing occasional pull side pop. Danuser also led all participants in exit velocity with a 94.6 mph mark on his best barrel.

+ INF/OF Mason Stover (Blue Springs South, 2025) is a compact, 5-foot-10, 160-pound athlete of note from Saturday’s event. Stover was consistently on the barrel throughout his round of batting practice, using a quick, repeatable swing to average 86.5 mph per batted ball, peaking at 92.4 mph. Known for making plays defensively, Stover also showed rage with reliable actions on the infield and a 85 mph arm to pair.

+ A dual-sport athlete packed with strength, C Garrison Hartsell (Pleasant Hill, 2025) is a gritty, hard-nosed athlete to keep an eye on from this look. Using a simple, rotational stroke at the plate Hartsell found the barrel often for loud contact throughout his round of BP squaring his firmest ball up at 90.2 mph. His arm flashed accuracy from the chute with 2.03-2.06 pop times. Also a running back for the Pleasant Hill football team, Hartsell showed off the speed, running a 7.08 60 - good for top 5 on the day.

+ INF/OF/RHP Haydn Jinkins (Grain Valley) emerged from Saturday’s look as a projectable 2026 athlete to keep an eye on. Jinkins was a standout defensively, showing clean, advanced actions with smooth, reliable hands. His 82 mph infield and outfield velocities were both among the top-3 at the event. At the plate, Jinkins flashed gap-to-gap power, spraying line drives with an all-fields approach. With plenty of room to add size and strength, Jinkins barreled his best ball at 90.2 mph.

   

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