Top Prospect Games: TrackMan Hitting Leaders
August 11, 2023
PBR of North Carolina hosted its Top Prospect Games on August 2nd at Campbell University. The event featured players from across the state in the 2024-2026 grad classes. The Top Prospect Games continues to be one of the most popular summer events on the PBR summer schedule with several college coaches in attendance taking a look at the prospects in attendance.
The day started with position players taking batting practice on the field with Trackman collecting ball flight data. After BP position players went through a defensive evaluation that began with the outfielders followed by the catchers and infielders. When players finished their defensive workout they ran a laser timed 60 using Swift Technology. In the afternoon players were split into 6 teams with each team playing 2 controlled games with Trackman gathering information on each pitcher that threw in the game.
Below we begin our breakdown of the players in attendance looking at the top performers in select categories.
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TrackMan Hitting Leaders
PEAK EXIT VELOCITY
TrackMan is able to track every ball hit into fair territory, throughout the BP sessions. Below are the exit velocities produced by individual players.
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Exit Velocity (max)
1
Cameron Turner
SC
P27
2024
1B
103.7 mph
2
Quintin Blake
NC
Greenfield
2024
OF
101.1 mph
3
Dylan Palmer
NC
East Wake Academy
2026
OF
100.8 mph
4
Levi Baker
NC
Wake County Warriors
2024
3B
100.0 mph
5
Zack Scruggs
NC
Southwestern Randolph
2025
SS
97.7 mph
6
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
97.6 mph
7
Tommy Williams III
NC
Wake County Homeschool
2024
OF
97.5 mph
8
Chase Byrd
NC
Croatan
2025
RHP
96.5 mph
9
Micah Greer
NC
Hibriten
2025
C
96.4 mph
10
Prince Zion Odom
NC
High Point Christian
2025
OF
96.3 mph
AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY
The average exit velocity measures a players ability to consistently produce hard contact. The average was taken based on every ball tracked by TrackMan throughout the player's BP session.
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Exit Velocity (avg)
1
Levi Baker
NC
Wake County Warriors
2024
3B
94.4 mph
2
Dylan Palmer
NC
East Wake Academy
2026
OF
93.5 mph
3
Tommy Williams III
NC
Wake County Homeschool
2024
OF
92.7 mph
4
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
90.9 mph
5
Cameron Turner
SC
P27
2024
1B
90.2 mph
6
Hayden Ashby
NC
Cox Mill
2024
1B
90.2 mph
7
Matthew Perez
NC
Grays Creek
2024
C
89.2 mph
8
Prince Zion Odom
NC
High Point Christian
2025
OF
88.8 mph
9
Edwin Allen
NC
Cardinal Gibbons
2024
OF
88.7 mph
10
Caden Nolan
NC
Richmond Senior
2026
3B
88.6 mph
DISTANCE OFF THE BAT
TrackMan is able to measure and track the ball while in the air. For every fair ball put in play it will display the distance the hit traveled.
Peak Distance - Best of the Hitter’s Session
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Distance (max)
1
Dylan Palmer
NC
East Wake Academy
2026
OF
388 ft
2
Cameron Turner
SC
P27
2024
1B
384 ft
3
Levi Baker
NC
Wake County Warriors
2024
3B
380 ft
4
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
379 ft
5
Tommy Williams III
NC
Wake County Homeschool
2024
OF
372 ft
6
Quintin Blake
NC
Greenfield
2024
OF
368 ft
7
Prince Zion Odom
NC
High Point Christian
2025
OF
366 ft
8
Gavin Pufky
NC
Rolesville
2024
1B
361 ft
9
Adrian Gonzalez
NC
Apex
2025
3B
360 ft
10
Edwin Allen
NC
Cardinal Gibbons
2024
OF
356 ft
Average Distance - Average of each ball tracked in the Session
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Distance (avg)
1
Tommy Williams III
NC
Wake County Homeschool
2024
OF
279 ft
2
Dylan Palmer
NC
East Wake Academy
2026
OF
277 ft
3
Adrian Gonzalez
NC
Apex
2025
3B
274 ft
4
Zak Stear
NC
Cleveland
2024
SS
270 ft
5
Matthew Perez
NC
Grays Creek
2024
C
265 ft
6
Ethan Nobles
NC
Terry Sanford
2025
RHP
260 ft
7
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
253 ft
8
Jack Newell
NC
Marvin Ridge
2024
3B
250 ft
9
Chase Byrd
NC
Croatan
2025
RHP
247 ft
10
Cameron Turner
SC
P27
2024
1B
246 ft
HARD HIT PERCENTAGE
TrackMan is able to track and follow exit velocities of each hitter. Based on the individual's top exit velocity, TrackMan is able to give us a percentage of hard hit balls. This percentage is based off of each individual hitter's top exit velocity.
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Hard Hit %
1
Dylan Palmer
NC
East Wake Academy
2026
OF
87 %
2
Levi Baker
NC
Wake County Warriors
2024
3B
85 %
3
Tommy Williams III
NC
Wake County Homeschool
2024
OF
70 %
^
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
70 %
4
Cameron Turner
SC
P27
2024
1B
66 %
5
Hayden Ashby
NC
Cox Mill
2024
1B
63 %
6
Prince Zion Odom
NC
High Point Christian
2025
OF
61 %
7
Quintin Blake
NC
Greenfield
2024
OF
60 %
^
Brett Cassell
NC
Cox Mill
2024
SS
60 %
8
Micah Dalton
NC
Hibriten High
2025
RHP
55 %
9
Caden Nolan
NC
Richmond Senior
2026
3B
50 %
^
JD Mace
NC
COMBINE ACADEMY
2025
RHP
50 %
10
Gavin Pufky
NC
Rolesville
2024
1B
46 %
LAUNCH ANGLE PERCENTAGE
Based on the ball flight, TrackMan is able to identify each hit as a ground ball, line drive, or fly ball. While there are many factors as to why a hitter may approach each pitch in a certain way, the overall groupings of BP can give some insight to each hitter's approach.
Line Drive %
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Line Drive %
1
Evan Lecnar
NC
East Forsyth
2024
2B
70 %
^
Ethan Bunce
NC
GRACE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
2025
C
70 %
2
Kylan Odean
NC
Weddington
2024
OF
66 %
^
Cannon Lee
NC
Pro5
2025
SS
66 %
3
Edwin Allen
NC
Cardinal Gibbons
2024
OF
63 %
4
Andru Hall
NC
West Stokes High School
2025
SS
62 %
5
Michael Gurganus
NC
Bear Grass Charter School
2025
RHP
60 %
Fly Ball %
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Fly Ball %
1
Chase Byrd
NC
Croatan
2025
RHP
77.8 %
2
Chase Kiker
NC
Metrolina Chrisitan Academy
2026
RHP
64.3 %
3
Michael Rogers
SC
Fort Mill
2025
OF
62.5 %
4
Ethan Nobles
NC
Terry Sanford
2025
RHP
58.3 %
^
Parker Cato
NC
Heritage
2024
OF
58.3 %
5
Matthew Perez
NC
Grays Creek
2024
C
54.5 %
^
Jack Newell
NC
Marvin Ridge
2024
3B
54.5 %
^
Zak Stear
NC
Cleveland
2024
SS
54.5 %
Ground Ball %
Rank
Name
State
School
Class
Pos
Ground Ball %
1
Southern Smith-Tilley
NC
Mooresville
2025
OF
55 %
2
Jake Henderson
NC
Watauga
2024
OF
54 %
^
Noah Genna
NC
Apex Friendship High
2025
OF
54 %
3
Brett Cassell
NC
Cox Mill
2024
SS
50 %
4
Evan Hodges
NC
Richmond Senior
2026
C
46 %
^
Eric Branch
NC
Surry Central
2026
C
46 %
5
Hayden Ashby
NC
Cox Mill
2024
1B
45 %