Prep Baseball Report

Missouri State Preseason ID: Hitting Leaderboards


By: Diego Solares
Area Scout, Illinois & Missouri

On Sunday, January 22nd, the PBR Missouri staff traveled to Hammons Field, home of the Missouri State University baseball program and Springfield Cardinals, to host the inaugural Missouri State Preseason ID. This event featured roughly 30 players from the 2023-to-2026 classes across Missouri and it served as an early identifier for future invite-only events, such as the Preseason All-State or the PBR Future Games. It also allowed our staff an opportunity to check in on players from this area of the state prior to the high school season commencing.

To see all of the players that attended this event, click HERE.

Shortly after the event's conclusion, our staff highlighted several players who stood out from the day within our 'Quick Hits' piece. You can learn more about those players by clicking HERE. We then put together stat leaderboards to spotlight the names that paced their peers in each of our specific stat categories, which you can find HERE.

With the help of our partners at TrackMan, we'll now take a look at which players had standout batted ball data from this event, such as exit velocities and batted distance.

PEAK EXIT VELOCITY

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (max)
1 Hunter Jones MO Branson 2024 RHP 93.8 mph
2 Cameron Lee MO Father Tolton Regional Catholic 2024 OF 93.6 mph
3 Kendall Hagedorn MO SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL 2026 C 93.3 mph
4 Mason Wall MO Jefferson City 2025 1B 93.1 mph
5 Cole Schoen MO Springfield Catholic 2024 RHP 92.5 mph
6 Wyatt Vincent MO Nixa 2025 OF 92.0 mph
7 Grayson Harris MO Fort Osage 2025 1B 92.0 mph
8 Zane Hunter II MO Logan Rogersville 2024 C 90.8 mph
9 Chase Robertson MO Galena 2024 C 90.5 mph
10 Brody Crane MO Neosho 2026 RHP 90.0 mph

AVERAGE EXIT VELOCITY

Rank Name State School Class Pos Exit Velocity (avg)
1 Grayson Harris MO Fort Osage 2025 1B 89.1 mph
2 Mason Wall MO Jefferson City 2025 1B 88.0 mph
3 Cole Schoen MO Springfield Catholic 2024 RHP 87.4 mph
4 Cameron Lee MO Father Tolton Regional Catholic 2024 OF 86.1 mph
5 Connor Kepner MO Lee's Summit 2024 C 84.5 mph

PEAK BATTED DISTANCE

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (max)
1 Brody Crane MO Neosho 2026 RHP 338 ft
2 Bryant Idleman-Popp MO Lee's Summit West 2025 3B 336 ft
3 Chase Robertson MO Galena 2024 C 333 ft
4 Austin Marsh MO Lees Summit West 2024 OF 333 ft
5 Grayson Harris MO Fort Osage 2025 1B 328 ft
6 Kendall Hagedorn MO SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL 2026 C 322 ft
7 Hunter Jones MO Branson 2024 RHP 321 ft
8 Cameron Lee MO Father Tolton Regional Catholic 2024 OF 321 ft
9 Cole Schoen MO Springfield Catholic 2024 RHP 320 ft
10 Carson Weldy MO Liberty North 2024 C 313 ft

AVERAGE BATTED DISTANCE

Rank Name State School Class Pos Distance (avg)
1 Hunter Jones MO Branson 2024 RHP 267 ft
2 Kendall Hagedorn MO SMITH-COTTON HIGH SCHOOL 2026 C 258 ft
3 Brody Crane MO Neosho 2026 RHP 254 ft
4 Braedan Barbee MO Lee's Summit West 2024 C 239 ft
5 Cameron Lee MO Father Tolton Regional Catholic 2024 OF 236 ft

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