2026 Baseball Recruits

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2026 Ga. Tech BasebaLL Signees:
-Deion Cole OF R-R 6-1 190 Woodstock, GA (Etowah). Committed
-Ryan Engle P/OF L-L 6-5 195 Kernersville, NC (Westchester Country Day)
-Isaiah Gallason SS R-R 5-11 175 Kathleen, GA (Houston County)
-Ezekiel Lara OF L-R 6-0 185 Cerritos, CA (Mater Dei). Committed
-Luke Nitkowski RHP L-R 6-0 150 Alpharetta, GA (Creekview)
-Brett Slymen RHP R-R 6-4 185 Aliso Viejo, CA (Capistrano Valley Christian)
-Colin White LHP L-L 6-3 175 Powder Springs, GA (Harrison)
-MICHAEL NOTTLEMAN // 6’5” 185 // LHP/1B, OF | COLUMBUS, GA
-Kolby Martin // Canton, Ga. // SS // 6’0” 200 lbs.// Sequoyah Chiefs(H.S.)
-Reid Gainous RHP R-R 6-1 190 Cairo, GA (Thomas County Central)
-Jack Richerson 3B R-R 6-4 212 Atlanta, GA (Marist)
 
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Buzzforlife said:
2026 Ga. Tech BasebaLL Signees:
-Deion Cole OF R-R 6-1 190 Woodstock, GA (Etowah). Committed
-Ryan Engle P/OF L-L 6-5 195 Kernersville, NC (Westchester Country Day)
-Isaiah Gallason SS R-R 5-11 175 Kathleen, GA (Houston County)
-Ezekiel Lara OF L-R 6-0 185 Cerritos, CA (Mater Dei). Committed
-Luke Nitkowski RHP L-R 6-0 150 Alpharetta, GA (Creekview)
-Brett Slymen RHP R-R 6-4 185 Aliso Viejo, CA (Capistrano Valley Christian)
-Colin White LHP L-L 6-3 175 Powder Springs, GA (Harrison)
-MICHAEL NOTTLEMAN // 6’5” 185 // LHP/1B, OF | COLUMBUS, GA
-Kolby Martin // Canton, Ga. // SS // 6’0” 200 lbs.// Sequoyah Chiefs(H.S.)
-Reid Gainous RHP R-R 6-1 190 Cairo, GA (Thomas County Central)
-Jack Richerson 3B R-R 6-4 212 Atlanta, GA (Marist)
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Colin White is committed to UF unless something has changed recently.

But, yeah you can find all commitments on PG:
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Georgia Tech - Perfect Game Baseball Player College Commitments

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Theflats1 said:
Is Richerson going to pitch at all? He was throwing 92 with a nasty slider last summer in PG highlights. Huge kid. Definitely big enough to develop as a pitcher.
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He is a great hitter...once he gets going int he late Spring after football and gets his grove locked in. I think he was MVP in lie 2 or 3 big PG touraments last summer. He could pitch I heard..at least in relief. It's just a question of how much time he gets to spend on baseball depending on how FB goes.
 

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Just as an aside - MLB.com just posted the other day their updated "Top 150 Draft Prospects".

# 3 - Vahn Lackey
# 8 - Drew Burress
# 31 - Jarren Advincula
# 133 - Carson Kerce
# 136 - Alex Hernandez

Others of note - Georgia HS players

# 30 - Trevor Conden - OF from Etowah HS
# 54 - Joseph Contreras - RHP from Blessed Trinity HS
# 101 - Malachi Washington, OF from Parkview
# 104 - Keon Johnson - INF from Macon, First Presbyterian

Also, our top recruit, Galason from Houston County - was not on this list (so a bit more likely that he ends up at Tech as this point), but you never really can tell.
 
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Dual sport athletes have gone the way of the dinosaurs. My grandson Taylor Harris is finding out that most all D1 schools baseball coaches will offer scholarships in baseball, but no football allowed. Baseball is a year round activity these days. He was a DII football 7th nationally ranked kicker for the last fall after a freshman injury redshirt and played baseball last spring semester.

As a walk on in the DII school, he went to a community college on a full scholarship in January, playing baseball this spring. He signed a contract to pitch in Appalachia League for this summer, a Baseball USA/MLB sponsored college baseball player league who sponsors room and board and $10 a day per diem.

He is getting full scholarship offers in baseball now, being one of the best left hand relief pitchers in national junior college ranks, national leader in K/9 at 14.91 and k% at 36%. Graduating community college in May, he will likely commit to a D1 baseball-only offer and focus just on baseball for his junior and senior years.

Major league scouts frequently show up at community college games. Yesterday's game had scouts from the White Sox and Padres present, with their speed guns and notebooks. Junior college baseball players are eligible for the MLB Draft after completing at least one year of school or turning 21 years old Unlike four-year university players, who must wait until after their junior year or age 21, community college players can be drafted every season, offering maximum flexibility.
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On his official visit to Charleston Southern University today, my grandson Taylor Harris committed to accept their scholarship offer and play baseball for the NCAA D1 Big South Conference Buccaneers. Since his high school graduation in 2024 to now, he has played two seasons of football and two seasons of baseball between two schools (preferred walk on football at NCAA DII UNC-Pembroke and preferred walk on baseball UNC-Pembroke and scholarship baseball at NJCAA Bryant and Stratton CC - VA) as well as graduating from third school with an associates degree in aviation business (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), completing 29 total credit hours this semester to meet the NCAA 4-2-4 transfer rule. He is looking forward to playing baseball at the same school for two years, having to forego football because baseball is year-round these days at the D1 level. In total he has earned 91 college credit hours toward a 120 hour BS in business.
 
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On his official visit to Charleston Southern University today, my grandson Taylor Harris committed to accept their scholarship offer and play baseball for the NCAA D1 Big South Conference Buccaneers. Since his high school graduation in 2024 to now, he has played two seasons of football and two seasons of baseball between two schools (preferred walk on football at NCAA DII UNC-Pembroke and preferred walk on baseball UNC-Pembroke and scholarship baseball at NJCAA Bryant and Stratton CC - VA) as well as graduating from third school with an associates degree in aviation business (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), completing 29 total credit hours this semester to meet the NCAA 4-2-4 transfer rule. He is looking forward to playing baseball at the same school for two years, having to forego football because baseball is year-round these days at the D1 level. In total he has earned 91 college credit hours toward a 120 hour BS in business.
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He’s been busy! WTG!
 
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It's still early and guys move around and obviously get drafted, but currently we're sitting at #29 in the 2026 PG Recruiting Rankings.

For comparison here's where we have ended up in recent years. I think these are adjusted to exclude guys who signed pro contracts. PG is also tricky bc they go back and put your transfers in the class they would have come in in. Not sure if they are then factored in or not. The 2023 class had Drew, Tai Peete who went in the 1st rd, Antonio Anderson who went in the 3rd, and Isaiah Drake who went in the 5th though, so they have to be excluding those pro guys even though they still show up.
  • 2025: 29
  • 2024: 29
  • 2023: 17
  • 2022: 19
  • 2021: 30
  • 2020: 8
  • 2019: 4
  • 2018: 45
  • 2017: 18
  • 2016: 21
Below I went back and found this list that I included in a post from June of last year, so the past few years seem to have changed. I think the 2025 was pre draft. We lost our top guy, Ryan Mitchell who was ranked 24th nationally, but kept our next 3, Willcox (73), Underwood (118), and Stephenson (152). We lost our 5th best ranked guy Cole Raymond (180) and our 8th best ranked Ryan Hall (230). Connor Roush (football guy) shows up and is a PG 8.5, but his overall ranking is just "top 1000," which would significantly drag our average ranking down. I'm not even sure how that factors in though.

Screenshot from June 2025:
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I'm really confused about what happened with the 2024 class that dropped it so far. Actually, no I'm not. I see now. It's likely because of all the guys who transferred out. Shoush, Chicoli, Royer, Evans, Musci, etc. I'm guessing that does mean it calculates based on guys that transferred in going towards their original class year too.

That makes it really difficult to go back and look at what the class actually ranked at the time that it closed.
 
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Tommy_Taylor_1972 said:
On his official visit to Charleston Southern University today, my grandson Taylor Harris committed to accept their scholarship offer and play baseball for the NCAA D1 Big South Conference Buccaneers. Since his high school graduation in 2024 to now, he has played two seasons of football and two seasons of baseball between two schools (preferred walk on football at NCAA DII UNC-Pembroke and preferred walk on baseball UNC-Pembroke and scholarship baseball at NJCAA Bryant and Stratton CC - VA) as well as graduating from third school with an associates degree in aviation business (Embry Riddle Aeronautical University), completing 29 total credit hours this semester to meet the NCAA 4-2-4 transfer rule. He is looking forward to playing baseball at the same school for two years, having to forego football because baseball is year-round these days at the D1 level. In total he has earned 91 college credit hours toward a 120 hour BS in business.
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Taylor signed with Charleston Southern University to play baseball. What a relief for him and his parents. The recruiting process is stressful buy rewarding.
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DecaturJacket said:
It's still early and guys move around and obviously get drafted, but currently we're sitting at #29 in the 2026 PG Recruiting Rankings.

For comparison here's where we have ended up in recent years. I think these are adjusted to exclude guys who signed pro contracts. PG is also tricky bc they go back and put your transfers in the class they would have come in in. Not sure if they are then factored in or not. The 2023 class had Drew, Tai Peete who went in the 1st rd, Antonio Anderson who went in the 3rd, and Isaiah Drake who went in the 5th though, so they have to be excluding those pro guys even though they still show up.
  • 2025: 29
  • 2024: 29
  • 2023: 17
  • 2022: 19
  • 2021: 30
  • 2020: 8
  • 2019: 4
  • 2018: 45
  • 2017: 18
  • 2016: 21
Below I went back and found this list that I included in a post from June of last year, so the past few years seem to have changed. I think the 2025 was pre draft. We lost our top guy, Ryan Mitchell who was ranked 24th nationally, but kept our next 3, Willcox (73), Underwood (118), and Stephenson (152). We lost our 5th best ranked guy Cole Raymond (180) and our 8th best ranked Ryan Hall (230). Connor Roush (football guy) shows up and is a PG 8.5, but his overall ranking is just "top 1000," which would significantly drag our average ranking down. I'm not even sure how that factors in though.

Screenshot from June 2025:
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I'm really confused about what happened with the 2024 class that dropped it so far. Actually, no I'm not. I see now. It's likely because of all the guys who transferred out. Shoush, Chicoli, Royer, Evans, Musci, etc. I'm guessing that does mean it calculates based on guys that transferred in going towards their original class year too.

That makes it really difficult to go back and look at what the class actually ranked at the time that it closed.
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Baseball recruiting is weird. Honestly feels like you aim for 4 - 5 guys in a big class to make it through senior year. Then fill in with transfers.
 

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With no mid-week game this past week, I tried to go on-line and check in on some of our 2026 recruits. Sort of hit or miss (many high school teams don't post any of their stats). For some of the really good teams some of their full games are posted by Youth Prospects or Black Cobra Media on YouTube.

Guys who appear to be having great senior seasons: Isiah Galason from Houston County (has led his team to the 5A Semis so far), Ezekiel Lara at Mater Dei in Los Angeles (he was "California HS Hitter of the Week" earlier this spring) and Michael Nottleman, down in Columbus GA (having a great year pitching - as we like him as a pitcher - and hitting really well too). But he plays in 2A, so competition level is a bit lower.

Guys who appear to be having good/solid senior seasons: Brett Slymen, pitcher from California, Deion Cole (plays for the loaded Etowah team, now in the Ga 6A Semi's). I was able to skim thru Etowah's 2 "Sweet 16 Games" against Denmark HS, that were posted on-line (Etowah won both easily. But too much swing and miss/K's from our recruit, Cole. Hopefully, just an off series for him.

The rest of the recruits, could find almost nothing on them.

Also looked up Holden Pantier, the juco recruit from Walters State (with the crazy high stats). You have got to be a heck of a hitter to be at .484 with 25 HR's, even if it's just a so-so juco league (their team has played 61 games and are in 1st in their league....and Pantier is only 3rd on his team in HR's). The leader has 29, hitting .392, next has 26 and hitting .400. They recently won some games by 27-3 and 22-4. But got to assume the kid has crazy good bat to ball skills.
 
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JacketFan27 said:
Guys who appear to be having good/solid senior seasons: Brett Slymen, pitcher from California, Deion Cole (plays for the loaded Etowah team, now in the Ga 6A Semi's). I was able to skim thru Etowah's 2 "Sweet 16 Games" against Denmark HS, that were posted on-line (Etowah won both easily. But too much swing and miss/K's from our recruit, Cole. Hopefully, just an off series for him.
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I've followed Cole this year and last more closely than any of our other recruits because he's pretty local to where I played (North Cobb) and Etowah is up near wear I work in Woodstock - plus with that team being so loaded a ton of their games get posted by various pages - and I'm afraid it's not an off series, but represents most of what I've seen from him. I've seen him bat as high as 2 at points last season and now I think he's fallen to the 6 hole. That team is super stacked, so that in itself isn't a huge deal but in the probably 15-16 games I've been able to catch of theirs the past two seasons, I've rarely seen him have a big game. A double here and there with a home run mixed in occasionally, but A TON of strike outs and zero really solid all around games. Maybe he'll be like a Zuck situation though and Ramsey can work with him.

I'm pretty sure I also saw Etowah play him at SS at some point earlier this season, which was odd. He seems like prototypical outfielder.

That being said, as dbaggy as he looks and as his antics are, that Trevor Condon kid is the real deal. While I've never seen Cole with really good games, Condon seems to have 3-4 hits a game with a lot of them being extra bases.
 
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Speaking of Deion, here's one of the Etowah v N Gwinnett games from this weekend:

Error in LF in b1
Flyout to RF t2
Struck out looking after failing to get a bunt down with 2 on nobody out down 3-1 t4
Struck out swinging (3 whiffs) t5
Struck out swinging t6

 
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