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Prospects With Fastball Velo, Power Gains In 2024
Plus: Ben Badler has updated recruiting intel on nearly 80 players in the 2025 and 2026 classes.
Prospects Who Added The Most Fastball Velocity In 2024
Last year, we examined pitching prospects who added the most velocity to their fastballs in 2023. The exercise yielded several interesting pitchers who enjoyed success this year, including Cole Ragans, Tobias Meyers and Jack Perkins.
Geoff Pontes is once again on the hunt for fastball velocity trending up in 2024. Setting a minimum of 100 fastballs thrown in both 2023 and 2023, here are the pitchers showing the most added sizzle on their fastball, broken into the following sections:
Four-seam fastballs
Two-seam fastballs
Velo change for every Top 100 Prospect
💪 90th percentile exit velo gains: Don’t worry, we’re showing hitters some love as well. Geoff also has the hitting prospects who gained the most 90th percentile exit velocity — a metric we feel correlates more closely with breakthroughs in power production. The player right at the top of the list? Rangers OF Pablo Guerrero, the son of Vladimir Guerrero Sr. and brother of Blue Jays slugger Vladimir Guerrero Jr. Read more…
LATEST RECRUITING BUZZ
Latest Recruiting Buzz, Top Recent Commits For Class Of 2025, 2026
The moment Aug. 1 arrived, the top players in the 2026 class were inundated with messages from college coaches.
A few prominent players committed to their dream schools soon after Aug. 1, which was the date when college coaches became allowed to contact 2026 players. But for most players, there is a deeper recruiting process that involves talking to coaches, visiting schools and finding the best fit for themselves.
We dropped our latest update of the top 150 players in the class of 2026 earlier this month. Today, we have recruiting updates and notes from around the country on the 2026 and 2025 classes, starting with a look at several 2026 players ranked in the top 150 who recently committed.
We have reports on more than 20 other notable players who were recent commits from the 2026 and 2025 classes, as well as the latest buzz and information on the top uncommitted players in the country, their recent visits and interested schools that could be potential landing spots.
HERE’S WHAT’S TRENDING AT BASEBALL AMERICA…
🌅 Arizona Fall League rosters are here. One of our favorite stretches of the year is almost upon us. You can see every AFL roster here. Plus…
Every Top 100 Prospect headed to Arizona
Players we’re most excited to see on every roster
❓️Is Jackson Jobe’s control a concern? Don’t let Jobe’s walks per nine innings fool you. J.J. Cooper explains why Jobe’s strike-throwing doesn’t raise any red flags with him.
📚️ Book bundle! You can now preorder all of our 2025 book offerings.
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