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For all of Perfect Game's regional previews as part of the 2020 high school baseball preview content, the Dream Team list is available for free. Orchard Lake St. Mary’s Prep in suburban Detroit starts the season as the 19th-ranked team in the country and is led by two Dream Team underclassmen in shortstop Overall, there is as much prep talent in Michigan right now as at any time in the past, which is perhaps not coincidental with the University of Michigan’s rise to the upper tier of college baseball. Bode committed to Louisville early in his freshman year and was a participant in the 2017 Perfect Game 14u Select Festival, so the Indiana junior has been on the national baseball radar for some time already.

As the college and high school seasons got underway on President’s Day weekend, the young class of 2024 was out to start their spring schedules as well at the PG Presidents’ Day Classic in Irvine, His teammate,  (2024, Simi Valley, Calif.) came in to hold the ballgame at 0-0 and was dominant through his two-inning close with a live fastball up to 85 mph and solid pitchability overall. Utility man  (2024, La Mirada, Calif.) did a little bit of everything for MVP Hustle on the weekend, including a 3-for-3 day at the plate in their first game, as well as closing the quarterfinal game out on the mound. Tri County Prime 24’s defeated MVP Hustle 14u 5-2 in the championship to take home the Perfect Game Presidents’ Day Classic crown.

He led the nation in batting a year ago and he followed that up with a huge performance on the Cape, leading Cotuit to a summer championship that led to him being named PG’s . He entered 2020 as a no-doubt First Team Preseason College All-American and accounted for over half of his team’s runs in their opening four-game set against Texas Southern. Hunter Wolfe is one of those prospects, a 6-foot-1, 195-pound lefthander who out-dueled Bryant ace Tyler Mattison to open the 2020 season last Friday with seven strong innings. Wolfe led the A-10 in wins a year ago (9) and also paced the Dayton staff with his 3.70 ERA as he and the Flyers are off to a strong 3-1 start with wins two wins over Bryant and another over UNC Wilmington.

The changeup is also a solid pitch right now, though it’s the third pitch of his arsenal, thrown in a similar velocity band as the slider with good tumbling action and arm speed, though he will occasionally drop his arm slot to throw the pitch. The length to the arm stroke can lead to some inconsistencies from a command perspective, but Hierholzer worked his fastball to both sides of the plate and showed very good life running down and to the arm side; the heater worked around 2400 RPM in terms of spin rate. The arm action is free and easy and he gets good life on his fastball that peaked at 87 mph and sat around 83-86 mph for the duration of the evening, working the pitch to both sides of the plate and generating pretty good angle too. From a high three-quarters to over-the-top slot, McCauley throws both a breaking ball and an off-speed pitch, although he shows more confidence in his fading off-speed pitch that again, showed flashes of plus ability.