On Saturday, Feb. 4th the PBR Wisconsin team hosted our first event of 2023, the Kenosha Preseason ID, at Puma Baseball Academy in Kenosha, Wis. This was an open event for all high school classes (2023-26) and gave our staff an ample look at the area's top players.

If you missed us in Kenosha, check out our showcase page to see when we’re in the neighborhood next.

On Tuesday, we published our biggest takeaways and highlights from Saturday’s showcase within our Quick Hits story. Yesterday, we took a quick look at the prosepcts who put up noteworthy numbers in more traditional statisitcal in the form of our Statistical Analysis. Today, we will dive even deeper into all of the data we collected, starting with this Pitcher Data Dive story.

TRACKMAN

FASTBALL

VELOCITY (MAX)

Rank	Name	State	School	Class	Pos	Velocity (max)
1	Jack Olson	IL	Antioch	2024	RHP	90.9 mph
2	Marshall Loch	WI	Union Grove	2024	RHP	88.2 mph
3	Kaleb Zabielski	WI	Burlington	2023	RHP	85.7 mph
4	Landon Dessart	WI	Union Grove	2024	RHP	85.5 mph
5	Foster Stockton	IN	Culver Academies	2025	RHP	85.3 mph
6	Aben Beinlich	WI	Burlington	2024	SS	84.5 mph
7	Dylan Feldkamp	IL	Antioch	2024	RHP	84.0 mph
8	Brody Schulte	WI	Westosha Central	2025	RHP	82.9 mph

Max Fastball Velocity: This metric calculates the speed of the pitch as it’s released from the pitcher’s hand.

SPIN RATE (AVG.)

Spin Rate: This metric calculates the rate of spin on the baseball as it leaves the pitcher’s hand, measured in revolutions per minute (rpm). Historical data shows that high-spin fastballs lessen the impact of gravity, allowing for more ‘rise’ (or less fall, in other words) as it carries through the zone. Low-spin fastballs typically indicate the pitch has greater horizontal action, often making it tougher to square up, but generally easier to make contact with, leading to more ground balls, while high-spin fastballs show a correlation with swings and misses.

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

Induced Vertical Break: Used in short form as "IVB," this metric is most important on fastballs for creating rise and on curveballs for creating depth – it can also have some use when measuring sliders and cutters as well. Sliders tend to be closer to zero inches while cutters are generally between 5 and 15 inches. Usually fastballs and curveballs with large IVB have higher spin efficiencies as well. Sliders generally have very little (closer to zero) IVB and very low spin efficiencies. You could also categorize IVB into spin rate as this is part of the “useful movement” you’re looking for. IVB is also a huge part of vertical approach angle.

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

Horizontal Break: Outlined on TrackMan’s own website: “... horizontal movement is measured in inches between where the pitch actually crosses the front of home plate side-wise, and where it would have crossed home plate side-wise if had it traveled in a perfectly straight line from release. A positive number means the break was to the right from the pitcher’s perspective, while a negative number means the break was to the left from the pitcher’s perspective.”

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

 

 

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CURVEBALL

SPIN RATE (AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

 

 

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SLIDER

SPIN RATE (AVG.)

INDUCED VERTICAL BREAK (AVG.)

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

 

 

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CHANGEUP

HORIZONTAL MOVEMENT (AVG.)

STRIKE ZONE RATE%

+ CLICK HERE for a look at the complete statistics from the event.

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