Jr. Future Games Trials: Statistical Analysis

April 3, 2024
Cam Black-Araujo
Assistant Director, Prep Baseball Canada

On Monday, April 1st the Prep Baseball Ontario staff hosted the first Junior Future Games Trials across the nation at the The Athlete Matrix in Mississauga, Ontario. The Jr. Future Games serve as the main identifier for Canada's lone JFG team heading to LakePoint Sports in late July and the team will feature players from the true 2028 and 2029 classes. The Jr. Future Games allows our staff to identify the next wave of players coming through the country and allows the players an opportunity to compete against top players in America, as well as give them a look at the Future Games event taking place on the complex at the samee time.

This event featured roughly 28 positional players from the across the province in the 2028 class and allowed our staff an opportunity to get an in-depth look at the players, as well as collect metrics via our tech partner TrackMan.

Today we'll start our deep dive into the data collected at this event within this Statistical Analysis story. Over the next couple of days we’ll be diving deeper into all of the data we collected rolling out even more coverage from the event.

For complete event results, click here.
To view upcoming event schedule, click here.

FASTBALL VELOCITY (MAX)

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Velocity (max)
1	Hunter Bartha	ON	West Niagara	2028	SS	78.5 mph
2	Evan Harding	ON	St. Thomas of Villanova (Tentative)	2028	RHP	78.4 mph
3	Jake Lamb	ON	Holy Name	2028	LHP	78.2 mph
4	Hudson Frey	ON	St. Anne Catholic	2027	LHP	77.3 mph
5	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	76.2 mph

EXIT VELOCITY (MAX)

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Exit Velocity (max)
1	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	90.2 mph
2	Hudson Frey	ON	St. Anne Catholic	2027	LHP	89.3 mph
3	Stefan Castellanos	ON	St Padre Pio	2028	OF	89.0 mph
4	Julian Marozzo	ON	FATHER BERSANNI	2028	C	88.5 mph
5	Jake Lamb	ON	Holy Name	2028	LHP	87.2 mph
6	Luca Tibbits	ON	St. Josephs Catholic	2028	3B	85.2 mph
7	Grant Ridgeway	ON	none	2028	OF	85.2 mph
8	Lorenzo Castro	ON	Senator O'Connor College School	2028	RHP	84.4 mph
9	Evan Harding	ON	St. Thomas of Villanova (Tentative)	2028	RHP	84.3 mph
10	Prescott Sutherland	ON	Bill Crothers	2028	C	84.2 mph

DISTANCE (MAX)

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Distance (max)
1	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	312 ft
2	Lorenzo Castro	ON	Senator O'Connor College School	2028	RHP	290 ft
3	Lucas Soloway	ON	Upper Canada College	2028	1B	288 ft
4	Jake Lamb	ON	Holy Name	2028	LHP	286 ft
5	Grant Ridgeway	ON	none	2028	OF	284 ft
6	Luca Tibbits	ON	St. Josephs Catholic	2028	3B	284 ft
7	Jacob Ault	ON	Spring Valley	2028	C	279 ft
8	Nathan Zaretsky	ON	King City	2028	C	278 ft
9	Gabriel D’Ercole	ON	St. Joseph the Worker	2028	OF	277 ft
10	Hunter Bartha	ON	West Niagara	2028	SS	273 ft

INFIELD VELOCITY

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	INF Velo
1	Hunter Bartha	ON	West Niagara	2028	SS	80
2	Jake Lamb	ON	Holy Name	2028	LHP	77
^	Evan Harding	ON	St. Thomas of Villanova (Tentative)	2028	RHP	77
3	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	76
4	Carson Walsh	ON	SMCS	2028	3B	75

OUTFIELD VELOCITY

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	OF Velo
1	Lorenzo Castro	ON	Senator O'Connor College School	2028	RHP	83
2	Hudson Frey	ON	St. Anne Catholic	2027	LHP	80
3	Grant Ridgeway	ON	none	2028	OF	79
4	Lucien Kovalcik	ON	Ecole Kenwood French Immersion	2028	RHP	78
5	Adrien Lublin	ON	Markham District	2028	RHP	76
^	Stefan Castellanos	ON	St Padre Pio	2028	OF	76

CATCHER VELOCITY

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	C Velo
1	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	69
2	Jacob Ault	ON	Spring Valley	2028	C	65
3	Nathan Zaretsky	ON	King City	2028	C	61
4	Julian Marozzo	ON	FATHER BERSANNI	2028	C	58

POP-TIME

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Pop Time
1	Austin Burton	ON	Westheights	2028	C	2.10-2.41
2	Jacob Ault	ON	Spring Valley	2028	C	2.30-2.40
3	Nathan Zaretsky	ON	King City	2028	C	2.46-2.77
4	Julian Marozzo	ON	FATHER BERSANNI	2028	C	2.70-2.77

UPCOMING EVENTS

SHOWCASE	STATE	DATE	LOCATION
2024 Team Ontario Scout Day	ON	04/17	The Dugout
2024 Ontario Blue Jays Scout Day	ON	04/18	The Athlete Matrix
2024 Terriers Scout Day	ON	04/24	King's Christian Collegiate
2024 18U Best of the West	ON	05/01	Norbrock Stadium (Kamloops, BC)
2024 15U Best of the West	ON	05/01	Norbrock Stadium (Kamloops, BC)
2024 Canadian Trials	ON	05/09	TNXL Academy - Ocoee, FL
2024 New England Academic Games (Invite Only)	ON	07/09	Yale
Future Games (Class of 2026/27)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports
Junior Future Games (Class of 2028/29)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports
Senior Future Games (Class of 2025)	NATIONAL	07/24	LakePoint Sports
2024 Toronto Summer Open	ON	07/30	Dan Lang Field
2024 Midwest Super Sophomore Games (Invite Only)	ON	08/02	Indiana University - Bart Kaufman Field
Improve My Profile with Game Video (Ontario)	ON	08/29	Ontario