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Clark is considered one of the best high school baseball players in America. It is expected he will be taken high in the upcoming Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

The 6-1, 200-pound outfielder wrapped-up his three-year scholastic career with a .551 career batting average with 21 homers and 95 RBI’s. During his senior year, Clark hit .646 with 20 of his 42 hits being for extra-bases — 9 doubles, 5 triples and 6 home runs.

Clark was named Gatorade’s Indiana’s Baseball Player the year after his sophomore and junior seasons. He’s accepted an athletic scholarship to play college baseball at Vanderbilt.

On July 9, 2023, Clark was drafted third overall by the Detroit Tigers. Three games into his professional career, Clark added a walk-off home run to his resume. On August 23, 2023, Clark was promoted to Single A Lakeland in the Minor Leagues for the duration of the season.

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Witt, who is the son of former Major League Baseball pitcher Bobby Witt, was the second overall pick in the 2019 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the Kansas City Royals. Witt made history as he and his father are the first father son duo to be picked in the first five.

Considered a five-tool athlete, Witt led his school to its first-ever 5A state championship. Witt hit .496 with 15 homers and 55 RBI’s. He had 14 doubles and nine triples. As a junior, Witt hit .476 with ten home runs.

Witt was one of only two high school players to be on USA Baseball’s Golden Spikes Award midseason watch list. The award is given to the country’s top amateur baseball player.

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The 6-5, lefthanded throwing Liberatore was selected as the 16^th overall pick in the 2018 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the Tampa Bay Rays.  Some have compared him to current Los Angeles Dodgers all-star Clayton Kershaw. Liberatore finished his senior season with a record of 8-1 with a 0.93 ERA.

In 60 innings, he struck out 104 batters with only 25 walks. Opponents batted .134 against him. In 2017, he played on the U-18 Team USA that won gold at the U-18 World Cup in Canada. He was also the MVP of the Under Armour All-America Games at Wrigley Field and played in the Perfect Game All-American Classic at Petco Park in San Diego.

In January of 2020, Liberatore was traded to the St. Louis Cardinals.

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Mike Nikorak has a big decision ahead as he’ll have to choose between heading to the University of Alabama to begin his college career or sign with the Colorado Rockies, who drafted him with the 27^th overall pick in the recent Major League Baseball Amateur Draft.

A 2014 first team Pennsylvania all-state honoree, Nikorak posted a 2-1 record with a 0.94 ERA and 50 strikeouts in 29.2 innings this season.. The nation’s No. 3 prep prospect, as rated by Perfect Game USA, also batted .417 with six home runs, 23 RBIs and a .792 slugging percentage.

Nikorak was the starting pitcher at the Under Armour All-American game at Wrigley Field in Chicago last summer, pitching one scoreless inning without allowing a baserunner and striking out two.

Nikorak has been a part of the Rockie’s organization since being drafted. He underwent Tommy John surgery in 2017.

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Brady Aiken, the 6-3 left-handed pitcher, finished off a great high school career at Cathedral Catholic High School.

Aiken had an incredible senior season with a 7-0 record with an ERA of 1.06 in 59 2/3 innings of work.  He struck-out 111 of 228 batters he faced in 2014.  Aiken was the winning pitcher with ten strikeouts for the United States 18-and-Under team that defeated Tawain in the World Cup of Baseball in 2013.

Aiken is the second California baseball player to be honored by the NHSCA in baseball.  Kyle Skipworth of Patriot High School, who is currently a catcher with the Miami Marlins, was named NHSCA Baseball Player of the Year in 2008.

Aiken was the #1 overall pick in the 2014 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. He was selected by the Houston Astros but he did not sign. Aiken spent the year at IMG Academies in Bradenton, Florida. He underwent Tommy John surgery. He re-entered the 2015 Draft and was the 17th overall pick by the Cleveland Indians. He played for two years prior to stepping away from the game.

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Clint Frazier capped off his high school career by being drafted by the Cleveland Indians with the fifth overall pick in the 2013 Major League Baseball Draft in June.

The 6-foot 180-pound senior center-fielder batted .485 with 17 home runs, 56 runs scored, 45 RBI and a 1.134 slugging percentage this season. Frazier led Loganville (26-6) to the Class AAAAA quarterfinals this past season. Frazier had already signed his major league contract.

Frazier started his professional career in the minor leagues. He was promoted from Class A to AA to AAA before being traded to the New York Yankees in July of 2016. Frazier spent the rest of the season on the Scranton/Wilkes Barre RailRiders. He spent the first few months of the next season there until he was called up to the Majors.

Frazier played his first game as a New York Yankee on July 1, 2017 and made an immediate impact with a double his first time to bat and a homerun the second. He finished the season in the majors. Frazier was plagued with a concussion in 2018 and was inactive for most of the season. In 2019, he split time between the majors and the minors. Most recently, he was called up to the majors again in August of 2020.

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Considered the top senior corner infield prospect by ESPN Rise, the 6-foot-5, 205-pound Gallo leads the nation with 20 home runs and 79 RBIs, according to MaxPreps.com.

He has led six-time defending state champion Bishop Gorman to a 37-3 record this spring. The left-handed hitter is batting .519 with 63 runs scored, eight doubles and 12 stolen bases, and has gone hit-less in just seven games.

Gallo has signed with Louisiana State University, but he is projected to be a first-round selection in the upcoming Major League Draft. His power potential is being compared to another Las Vegas product, 2010 No. 1 overall pick Bryce Harper, now starting for the Washington Nationals.

Last spring, Gallo batted .471 with 25 home runs, 79 RBIs and 64 runs scored, and was named to the High School All-America second team by Baseball America. Last summer, in the Perfect Game All-American Classic at Petco Park in San Diego, Gallo hit a 442-foot home run into the center-field bleachers, the 10th-longest home run hit in the park’s history. In February, he had two hits in three at-bats in a scrimmage against Lucas Giolito of Westlake Village (Calif.) Harvard-Westlake School, who is projected to be the top overall pick.

Gallo was a starter on the USA Baseball Under-18 National Team that went 9-0 to win the Pan-American Championships at Cartagena, Colombia, outscoring its opponents by an 88-8 margin.

After graduation, Gallo was selected as the 39th pick overall in the MLB Draft. He forwent LSU and signed with the Texas Rangers. After three years in the minor leagues, Gallo was called up to the Majors on June 1, 2015 and played a handful of games before going back down.

In 2017, Gallo played the entire season in the Majors for the Rangers in multiple positions. On May 8, 2019, he hit his 100th homerun where he became the quickest player to do so in only 377 games. On May 31, 2019, Gallo hit another new marker in his career, his first career grand slam. Later in the season, Gallo was selected to be part of the American League All Star team.

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The 6-foot-1, 195-pounder is projected as a pitcher as a professional, but the switch-hitting Bundy was named Second-Team All-America by Baseball America as a junior at two positions: utility player and pitcher.

The right-handed hurler posted a record of 11-1 as a junior with a 1.58 ERA. In 80 innings, he struck out 164, while walking just 20 and allowing 41 hits. He also batted .442 with 16 doubles and seven home runs, driving in 51 runs and scoring 50.

This spring, Bundy, who was clocked at 100 miles per hour four times in one start alone, has exceeded those numbers and led Owasso, the 6A state champions three straight seasons from 2007-09, to a No. 1 national ranking by several publications and the state title game. Through May 6, Bundy was 10-0 with a 0.22 ERA, with 147 strikeouts and just five walks, 18 hits and two earned runs allowed in 64 innings.

A workout warrior who squats 500 pounds and leg-presses 1,200 pounds, Bundy has signed with the University of Texas, but is projected to be selected in the top half of the first round in the upcoming Major League draft. His brother, Bobby, was an eighth-round selection of the Baltimore Orioles in 2008 and is progressing through their system.

Bundy did just that. He was the fourth overall pick at the 2011 MLB Draft by the Baltimore Orioles. He was sidelined after undergoing Tommy John surgery and then with calcification of the shoulder. He made his appearance in the spring of 2016. He was placed on the disabled list in 2019 after a bout with tendinitis in the knee.

In December of 2019, Bundy was traded to the Los Angeles Angels.

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Ambidextrous since birth, the 6-foot-1 185-pounder is projected as an outfielder as a professional, but Vettleson is a rarity at any level: a switch-pitcher. He has been clocked at 93 miles per hour as a right-handed pitcher and 88 miles per hour as a lefty. The Gatorade Washington Player of the Year as a junior, Vettleson owned a career 6-3 record, 2.10 earned-run average and 64 strikeouts in 57 innings entering this year, as well as a .408 career batting average with 10 home runs and 39 RBIs. He was named Player of the Year this spring by the Tacoma News-Tribune.

Vettleson hit two grand slams in a game against Tacoma Stadium High earlier this year, then struck out 11 and allowed just three hits in 6 2/3 innings in a 7-1 victory over Puyallup Emerald Ridge High that propelled the Cougars to a fourth straight state tournament berth. Rated No. 19 in Baseball America’s pre-season Top 100, Vettleson, committed to Oregon State University, should be selected in the first two rounds of the upcoming Major League draft.

Vettleson was indeed drafted in the first round as the 42nd overall pick by the Tampa Bay Rays.

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The 6-foot-2, 167-pound left-handed pitcher turned the high school baseball world upside down this spring when he set a state record by pitching four consecutive no-hitters. The previous record had stood for 22 years. In his record-breaking fourth straight no-hitter on April 20, he struck out 17 in a 5-0 victory over Dade City Pasco High, mixing a 90-plus fastball with curve balls and sliders. In his four no-hitters Schuster struck out 60, while issuing only seven walks. Schuster finished 8-1 this season with a 0.93 earned-run average, striking out 115 and allowing just 16 hits in 60 innings. A 29-inning hitless streak ended when he yielded a third-inning double in a 9-4 loss to Tampa Gaither High in the state playoffs. Schuster also was an offensive threat, batting .403 with 21 RBIs and 21 runs scored. As a junior, he posted a 5-2 record and a 1.07 ERA. He will attend the University of Florida.

Instead of college, Schuster was drafted in the 13th round by the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was then traded to the Oakland A’s, where he made his MLB debut July 5, 2016.

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After playing left field and first base earlier in his high school career, the 6-foot-4, 200-pound Skipworth has emerged as the nation’s No. 1 catching prospect. Earlier this season he set a national record with 18 consecutive hits and a state record by reaching base in 25 straight at-bats.

Through his team’s first 26 games, Skipworth was batting .580 with 13 home runs, 47 RBIs, 49 runs scored, 11 intentional walks and a .660 on-base percentage. He batted .407 with eight home runs as a junior – 23 of his 35 hits going for extra bases.  He also had a 6-for-6 game as a sophomore, when he hit .355 with 11 extra-base hits and a team-high 24 RBIs. Only four opposing baserunners have tried to steal against him this spring, and only one has been successful.

Also an outstanding student with a 3.8 grade-point average, Skipworth is committed to Arizona State University, but is projected to be a top five selection in the upcoming Major League Baseball amateur draft.

Skipworth was drafted as the sixth overall pick at the 2008 amateur MLB draft by the Florida Marlins.

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The 6-foot-7, 215-pound Beavan was named Youth Player of the Year by Baseball America after scattering seven hits and striking out 11 in shutting out Cuba, 4-0, in the 2006 World Junior Championships, helping the U.S. team win the silver medal. In the same event in 2005, Beavan blanked Chinese Taipei as the U.S. also took home the silver medal.

This season, Beavan, whose fastball has been clocked at 96 miles per hour, is 9-2 with a 0.19 earned-run average and 139 strikeouts – with just five walks – in 73 innings. Though his career record is just 25-13, he has 424 career strikeouts in just 247 1/3 innings with a 0.91 earned-run average.

He has accepted a scholarship to the University of Oklahoma, but is projected to be a high first-round selection in the upcoming Major League Baseball amateur draft. He was selected in the first round by the Texas Rangers in 2007. He was traded to the Seattle Mariners in 2012 and currently plays for the Bridgeport Bluefish.

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The youngest son of former major league pitcher and Cy Young Award winner Doug Drabek, the 6-foot-1 right-hander, whose fastball has been clocked as high as 97 miles per hour, sports a 9-0 record with a 1.15 earned-run average and 97 strikeouts this spring to lead the top-ranked team in the USA Today Super 25. At the plate Drabek leads the Houston area with 10 home runs, and also has 33 RBIs and a team-leading .462 batting average.

As a junior, Drabek batted .479 with six home runs and 33 RBIs and was 11-1 on the mound with a 0.82 earned-run average and 155 strikeouts in 77 innings. He was selected to the Baseball America Pre-Season All-America First Team and is projected to be a high first-round selection in the upcoming Major League Baseball amateur draft.

Drabek was selected by the Phillies as the 18th overall draft pick in 2006. In 2009, he was honored with the Paul Owen award, which is given to the top pitcher and the top position player in the Phillies’ minor-league system. Drabek was traded to the Toronto Blue Jays in late 2009 where he remained until 2015.

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Coached by Rasmus’ father, Tony, Russell County High has been ranked No. 1 in virtually every national high school baseball Top 25 this season, and Colby Rasmus is one of the major reasons. Rated a first-round major league draft prospect by schoolsports.com, Rasmus, an outfielder who will attend Auburn University, currently is batting .505 and leads the nation with 22 home runs, two more than Bo Jackson’s previous single-season state record of 20.

He also has 13 doubles, three triples, 61 RBIs and 64 runs scored. He also can run, as he showed last year when he stole 33 bases. His brother, Cory, a junior, also is a future star with a .442 average, 15 home runs, and a 9-0 record and 0.50 ERA as a pitcher.

Rasmus was selected as the 28th pick during the MLB Draft in 2005 by the St. Louis Cardinals. He made his debut in 2005 with the Johnson City Cardinals. He made his debut in the “bigs” on April 3, 2009. Earlier in the year, he was listed as the No. 3 prospect in Baseball America’s 2009 Top 100 Prospects.

Rasmus played with various teams throughout his career before retiring in 2018 from the Toronto Blue Jays.

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Bailey, the seventh overall pick in the Major League Baseball draft, is a 6’4″ right-hander with a 94 m.p.h. fastball. With a .57 ERA as a senior, Bailey registered a 13-0 record with 180 strikeouts and just 12 walks. Bailey held opponents, while playing at LaGrange High School,  to a .089 batting average when on the mound, and himself batted .436 with 30 RBI’s in the number five slot.

In 2004 Bailey made his minor league debut with the Gulf Coast Reds. In 2005 he was promoted to the Daytona Dragons, and again in 2006 he was promoted to the Sarasota Reds. His major league debut came the next year. On June 8, 2007, Bailey started against the Cleveland Indians. He pitched for five innings and got the win.

Bailey continued to pitch for the Reds until 2018 when he was traded. On December 31, 2019, Bailey was signed to a one year contract by the Kansas City Royals. He is currently on the Oakland Athletic’s roster as of 2020.

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“Athletes like Jeff Francoeur are among the success stories produced in high school athletics today,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “He has worked extremely hard to develop his skills and has become one of the best baseball players not only in the state of Georgia, but the entire nation, and we are proud to be honoring him.”

One of the nation’s top two-sport athletes, Francoeur earned a scholarship to play football at Clemson University after intercepting a school-record 28 passes – 15 as a junior, also a record – as a football free safety and batting .500 both his junior and senior seasons on the diamond, hitting 20 home runs as a junior. Parkview High won Class 5A state titles in both sports his junior and senior years. Francoeur saved his best for last, going 6-for-7 with four home runs, including a grand slam, in the team’s two-game state title series this spring and also was the winning pitcher in both games in relief.

The Atlanta Braves made the 6-foot-4, 200-pound Francoeur their first-round pick (No. 23 overall) in this year’s Major League Draft.

Francoeur made his MLB debut July 7, 2005 with the Atlanta Braves. After a long and illustrious career, Francoeur retired in 2016. Francoeur is a color analyst for television.

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“Athletes like Joe Mauer are among the success stories produced in high school athletics today,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “He has worked extremely hard to develop his skills and has become one of the best baseball players not only in the state of Minnesota, but the entire nation, and we are proud to be honoring him.”

After quarterbacking Cretin-Derham Hall’s football team to the Class 5A state title for the second time last fall, Mauer was selected as the Gatorade High School Football Player of the Year, and earned a scholarship to Florida State University.

However, he is expected to be one of the first 10 picks in the first round of the upcoming Major League Baseball amateur draft. A catcher, the 6-foot-4, 220-pound Mauer hit home runs in seven consecutive games this spring. Through his team’s first 19 games, Mauer was hitting .576 with 13 home runs, 35 runs batted in, and 33 runs scored after hitting .565 last season and .550 last summer for Team USA in the World Junior Championships. Mauer’s games routinely attract 30 or more major league scouts.

As a quarterback, Mauer passed for 5,528 yards and 73 touchdowns, and posted a 25-2 record as a starter.

Mauer was indeed drafted in the 2001 MLB draft as the number one selection, the first Minnesotan to do so. He had an illustrious career for the Minnesota Twins until his retirement in 2018.

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The 5-foot-11 Hall was an All-District player four years and an All-State player three years. The starting center fielder on Carlsbad High’s 1998 Class 4A state championship team, Hall moved to shortstop the next season and continued his outstanding play. He won the state’s Triple Crown, setting state records with a .676 batting average and 11 home runs.  His 43 RBIs were one shy of the state record.

He was named the Gatorade New Mexico High School Player of the Year and was a USA Today Pre-Season Super 25 selection. He also was named to the First Team by Collegiate America, and to the Second Team by Baseball America. “Athletes like Brian Hall are among the success stories produced in high school athletics today,” NHSCA executive director Bob Ferraro said. “He has worked extremely hard to develop his skills and has become one of the best baseball players not only in the state of New Mexico, but the entire nation, and we are proud to be honoring him.”

Hall also played on the Tampa Bay Devil Rays Phoenix Scout Team in 1998 and was the Most Valuable Player at the Arizona Pro Baseball Camp the same year. Also an outstanding student, Hall graduated 17th in his class of 475 with a 4.46 grade-point average, and is a member of the National Honor Society. He has accepted a scholarship to Stanford University, one of the nation’s elite baseball programs.

Hall provided to be very versatile for Stanford. He spent time playing first base, third base, and each of the outfield positions. His senior year he was an All-American Candidate.

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Riley Pint led St. Thomas Aquinas to the Kansas 5A state championship with a 7-1 record and a 0.57 ERA. Pint finished the season with 87 strike outs in his 49 innings pitched. His batting average was a solid .576 with 45 RBI’s.

Pint was selected as the 4th overall draft in the 2016 MLB Amateur Draft by the Colorado Rockies. The Rockies also drafted the 2015 NHSCA Baseball Athlete of the Year in 2015.

Pint is still a member of the Rockie’s organization. He is currently is honing his skills, which include consistently throwing 97-100 miles per hour.

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After being announced as the NHSCA Senior Baseball Athlete of the Year, Lewis was drafted No. 1 overall in the Major League Baseball Amateur Draft by the Minnesota Twins. In his first minor league at-bat, Lewis hit a home run.

During his senior season, Lewis hit .377 with four home runs and 25 stolen bases. Lewis is a member of USA Baseball’s Under18 team that won the gold medal at the Pan American Championships in Mexico last year.  

Lewis carries a 3.10 GPA, plus he volunteers at a children’s hospital in San Diego. Lewis is the third athlete from California to win the NHSCA Baseball Senior Athlete of the Year Award. Brady Aiken of Cathedral Catholic, who is currently a minor league pitcher with the Cleveland Indians, won the award in 2014. Kyle Skipworth of Patriot High School, who played with the Miami Marlins, won the award in 2008.

Lewis was invited to spring training in 2019 as a non-rostered athlete. He promoted to the Pensacola Blue Wahoos in July, a AA team. He also played in the Future All-Star game. Following the season, he was invited to play in the Arizona Fall League, where he was named the MVP.

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