Catching Up With Team Pennsylvania

November 15, 2016

By Greg Williams
Pennsylvania / West Virginia Director of Scouting

One inning that included two defensive miscues was all that prevented Team Pennsylvania from exiting Grand Park in Indianapolis, IN with a perfect 3-0 record in early August. Seven Pennsylvania pitchers combined to keep Team Ohio, Team Michigan and Team Ontario scoreless in the remaining 20 innings played over two days. Most importantly, the 15 members of Team Pennsylvania had an opportunity to showcase their abilities in front of over 150 college coaches representing every major Division I conference in the country.

The PBR Future Games have been offering rising juniors and sophomores an opportunity to gain valuable exposure on the national stage for the past six years and Team Pennsylvania has been been a participant since year two. Members of the initial roster that represented the Keystone State in 2012 are now college juniors and several are likely draft picks in the June 2017 MLB amateur draft.

It's too soon to say how many members of the 2016 roster will go on to be drafted, but what can be said is this roster had the greatest team success among the five Future Games events involving a Pennsylvania team to date. Further support for the level of talent that dotted the 2016 roster are the 10 Division I commitments that have been announced by members of the roster in the past three months.

The 2017 Future Games will take place again at Grand Park on August 3-5. Roster invitations will begin to go out following a pair of winter events in Pennsylvania. The PA Underclass Games and the Preseason All-State Showcase offer players in the Class of 2019 and 2020 an opportunity to make a case for their inclusion on the Team PA roster. A total of nine of the 15 players on the 2016 roster received an invitation to participate following their participating in a winter PBR event.

Take a look at all upcoming events on the PBR Pennsylvania winter schedule by clicking here.

NAME	STATE	SCHOOL	CLASS	POS	COMMITMENT
James Balogh	PA	Pocono Mountain East	2018	RHP
Thomas Caufield	PA	West Chester Henderson	2018	SS	North Carolina
Cole Chesnet	PA	Coatesville	2018	C	Penn State
Kyler Fedko	PA	Vincentian Academy	2018	SS	Connecticut
Adam Grintz	PA	Downingtown West	2019	RHP
Eric Grintz	PA	Downingtown West	2019	C	North Carolina
Dillon Marsh	PA	Lancaster Catholic	2018	LHP	Kentucky
Nick Parker	PA	Dallastown Area	2018	RHP	Coastal Carolina
Travis Perry	PA	Rocky Grove	2018	RHP
Sevin Schoeneweis	PA	Moon Area	2018	RHP
Adam Schwartz	PA	Ephrata	2018	OF	Connecticut
Adam Smith	PA	West Chester East	2018	SS	UNC Wilmington
Cullan Wadsworth	PA	Parkland	2018	OF
Justin Williams	PA	Cumberland Valley	2018	3B	Penn State
Justin Wright	PA	Hempfield Area	2018	3B	St. John's

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