Today we continue our ‘End of the Year’ countdown, highlighting the most viewed player profiles in Wisconsin from this year. We’ll be working our way to the top spot, starting with No. 10 and releasing the most viewed name on New Year’s Eve. 

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Coming in at No. 9 in our most viewed profiles of 2022 is Oklahoma State commit RHP/SS Noah Wech (Manitowoc Lincoln, 2024). Since his first appearance in front of our staff Wech has been a prospect who has caught our staff’s attention but last winter, at the Madison Preseason ID, he showed off the gains he made throughout the offseason and walked out as arguably the biggest winner from the talented event. Here is what our staff had to say regarding his performance there… 

“Wech's performance was one of the big takeaways of the event. The athletic two-way infielder stands at 6-foot, 170 pounds, with a strong lower and running a 7.24 in the 60-yard dash. Working from a balanced setup with a moderate leg lift, he tips his barrel into plant and swings a tight arc through the zone with spraying contact that reached as high as 95 mph on our TrackMan units in BP. Defensively, Wech is an athletic defender with quick actions and soft hands. While it's debatable where his future lies as a position player or on the mound, he has all the capabilities to stick on the infield in some capacity. He is equally impressive when he takes the mound though, transferring his athleticism into a fluid moving drop/drive lower-half that creates easy power downhill. His arm plays from a clean over the top slot and works quick to the release, producing an impressive fastball both to the eye and metrically. The fastball sat 89-90 mph, spinning at a max rate of 2,435 rpm, which resulted in elite Pitch Score measurements in both Hop and Rise. The pitch enters the zone at a steep angle, with finish, and even cut action at times. He showed feel for a swing-and-miss curveball that he threw with near-identical fastball arm speed, playing off a sharp 11/5 plane in the mid- to upper-70s with Hammer traits. His slider also looks to have wipeout qualities, thrown off a shorter 10/4 plane at 77-79 mph. With a heavy fading changeup at 79-80 mph, Wech possesses a mature four-pitch mix that will certainly miss barrels at the next level.”

After his performance in the winter, he carried over that momentum into the spring season for Manitowoc Lincoln, as he was a key contributor on both sides of the ball all-year long. Offensively, Wech logged a .434 batting average, 32 RBIs, an OPS of 1.127 and that was only the half of it. On the mound, he totaled 36.2 innings, finishing the season with a 2.02 ERA and 72 strikeouts. His eye-popping season earned him a plethora of awards following the spring, he earned Fox River Classic Conference First-Team honors as both an infielder and a pitcher, he also took home Fox River Classic Conference player of the year, and was on our PBR Wisconsin All-State: Third Team, too. After his award winning spring, he continued to just flat-out dominate all across the country on the summer circuit and earned national buzz seemingly everywhere he went and rose up to the No. 2 spot inside our 2024 rankings board as a result. To cap off his terrific summer, the No. 232-ranked prospect nationally, announced his commitment to Oklahoma State University. 

After what Wech accomplished this year, it is not surprising to see why he earned the ninth-most profile views in the state. With still two more years of high school left for this young prospect, there is no telling what else he can accomplish in his already stellar prep career. 

 

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