Trigg
Cloward

Rising Stars ID 

Cloward comes from college baseball bloodlines, as his father Casey was a catcher for the BYU Cougars for 4 years in the early to mid 2000’s. You can see in Trigg’s game the influence of a D1 college level father with his athletic movement patterns and overall baseball actions. A catcher and a MIF’er, Trigg caught my attention with his actions up the middle. Trigg shows advanced sequencing of his movements, as shows the pre-pitch hop in landing his feet as the bat meets ball, which allows his timing to move in any direction to the ball. There is some educated foot patterns as he sequences his steps and address to the ball, to get into a solid position to play with his left foot forward and planting his left heel into the ground to soften his momentum moving forward. He shows soft hands and receives out front and works from the ground up and gets rid of the ball quick with K’s to 1B. As a hitter, all that is needed is age and physical maturity with his pre-pitch setup conventional and balanced. He rocks back for timing and lifts into a medium knee kick and at foot strike, fires his lower 1/2 and whole body into traditional spinning contact. The bat path is short and direct and produced hard LD’s with backspin through the big part of the field and didn’t look to pull. He stayed on balls and stayed middle-middle with a whippy quick bat for his age and maturation level. With age, maturity and physical growth with the strength component coming in the next couple of years, this kid has the makings of a really good player moving forward. The base is there to build into a very good HS baseball player, that listens and soaks up instruction to go beyond the HS level. It will be fun to follow his journey and see where it ends up!