Our guy, and the measuring stick: the biggest arm winner at the Future Games — 92.0 avg, T94.3, with a +1.15 aVAA that put him top-5 on the event's pound-for-pound fastball board. Nobody else on this list combined his velocity AND flatness in Emerson. The 6'4" frame at 189 still has a full projection cycle left, and the firm 2350+ FB with a 2500+ wipeout slider was overpowering 16U bats all summer. On the day it mattered most, against the best of the class, his fastball was the best one — and it wears orange and blue. #1 among the pure arms.

The loudest raw stuff available: sat 90.4–93.4 T94 at the Future Games (T95.1 in Feb) with 18" of ride, and the curveball is the best breaking ball we've charted — 2796 avg / 2928 max rpm with -18" of depth. Career .144 against, 41.3 K%, 96th-percentile WHIP. The command gap (56% strikes, 23 WP) is the one thing keeping a grade-10 arm available in September — whoever bets on the fix gets a Friday-night ceiling.

Highest floor-plus-pedigree combo of the uncommitted arms: 7.0' of extension at 6'5" riding 92.4, with a 100%-zone sweeper. MSL Pitcher of the Year with a championship no-hitter (81 K / 62.1 IP) — performs in games, repeats the delivery, and the market knows it. The most conventional "safe" top-100 starter bet on the shelf; winning him is a straight talent fight.

The ceiling bet, in footprint (Haymarket, ~40 minutes out). +26 mph in three years, T94 at PG Jr. National (99.96th %ile), sat 87–92 at the FG with two-plane life, 6.9' extension, and a changeup that mirrors the fastball's movement cell. Command still catching up to the spike (12% BB) — normal and fixable. PG repriced him to #98; PBR hasn't (#328) — the boards haven't finished catching up to the arm.

Canada's top '28 arm and the steepest velo climb on this list that has held: 78 → 92 PG-verified in 24 months (99.74th %ile — class avg is 73), still 90–91 this fall. Started Game 1 of the Future Games for Team Canada: 91.2–92.3 T92.6 with a heavy-run two-seam look (16.6" run / 13.2" ride) from 6.6' extension — FB models at ~102 off the published shapes — plus a low-80s bullet slider that made him PBR Impact 75 #22 of the whole event ("a premier must-follow in the class"). Backed it up in games: 4 IP, 0 R, 6 K vs 18U competition in September. Two pitches tracked so far and the cross-border recruit is the work; the arrow is straight up.

The age-adjusted steal of our class. Sitting 87–89 T89.1 with a heavy sink/run profile and a rare high-spin "Airbender" changeup (T2907 rpm, 17" run with depth — the Devin Williams shape) — while being a FULL YEAR younger than most of this list. The resume is absurd for a 16-year-old: Class 3 state champion, Valley District Player of the Year, 88 career PG innings at 2.46 with an 87th-percentile WHIP. +3 mph per year for three straight years on a 6'4"/169 frame that hasn't started filling out — ride the ordinary development curve and this is a mid-90s East-West starter by draft spring. Ranked #8 on present stuff; on a 2029-equivalent age basis he might be top three.

The biggest stuff-vs-rank gap on the board: sat 88.9–92.6 T93.5 at the Future Games with 15.7" of ride from 6.8' of extension — and a 648-rpm splitter, the lowest-spin pitch we've charted in the class (beats Moore's 916 by 270 rpm). PG's own gun has his FB in the 99.8th percentile while ranking him #447; PBR dropped him 131 spots the same summer he did all this. And the game logs back it: 2.59 ERA, .157 against, 32.5 K% (92nd-%ile WHIP) over 46 PG innings. +17 mph since 2023 on a 6'5" frame a year young for the class. Same inefficiency we bought on Rojas and Dungan — bigger, younger, harder-throwing, and already dominant in games.

The résumé arm: sat 89.6–91.4 at 2436 rpm at the Future Games — the best sitting band outside our top tier — with a whole-arsenal jump behind it (+4.4 FB, +9 on a now-hard 79–81 slider in twelve months). And he flat-out pitches: 1.97 ERA, 94th-percentile WHIP, .183 against across 64 PG innings, 62% strikes, plus a 6–1 HS spring and a USA Baseball national-team selection to validate it all. No single outlier tool; everything checked at once — the profile that out-pitches louder arms.

Promoted onto the board off the Over Slot cross-check: a national top-100 nod validates what our sheet already said — T92.1–93 with a 2421-rpm high-spin fastball, a 2670-rpm power sweeper and a true sinker for a three-shape east-west attack, plus .167 against with a 94th-percentile WHIP in his limited PG looks. Nobody flies to Albuquerque, which is the entire discount. The wiry 6'3" frame is barely started ("all projection… the present stuff is excellent" — OS). Command comes and goes; the arrow and the spin profile don't.

Howard's age math with three extra ticks: at 16y5m he sat 88.8–90.8 T92 at the Future Games with an 81–85 T85.3 power slider and an 85–86 changeup — three pitches in an 8-mph power ladder at an age when most of this class is a year older. Plus athlete (6.93 sixty at 6'4") with a frame that hasn't filled a sleeve. PG jumped him 181 spots in two months while their public gun data sits five mph stale — the boards are chasing him in real time. Movement data pending a PBR re-login; the velo, age, and athleticism already make the case.

The ground-ball antidote in a ride-heavy class: sink/run fastball to T92.2 with a 916-rpm splitter — kill-spin feel almost nobody in the class has. Virginia kid we can see cheaply and often, ranked where sinker profiles always get ranked (under), which keeps him gettable.

The unicorn: a six-foot-ten, sixteen-year-old LEFTY who sinks it — heavy 2079-rpm ball with −16" of run from a 6.5-foot release, the steepest downhill angle on this board. +7.2 mph in twelve months to T89.5 at the FG (90–91 in-game since), and nobody squares him: .193 against, zero homers in 77.1 career PG innings with an 87th-percentile WHIP. The 17% walk rate is the predictable growing-into-the-body flag. Highest variance in the bottom half of this list — and if the ordinary curve holds, the loudest ceiling shape too.

Best extension we've charted (7.3'), real pitch design (81–84 splitter at 1127 rpm), and the best strike-thrower here: 89th-%ile walk rate, 0.54 ERA with 15 K / 2 BB in '26. Only present velo (88–90 T91) keeps him this low — the spike happened in NJ spring ball where nobody saw it. At 92–93 next spring he jumps two tiers and the price triples.

A carry LEFTY still growing into himself: 19.8" avg IVB (22.1 max) at the Future Games — Johnston-tier ride from the left side, which is far rarer — with the FB-mirror changeup landed for a 100% zone rate. The body and velo are moving together: two inches and twenty pounds in ten months with the fastball up +7.5 mph to T87.9, ride and extension climbing in step. At 6'2" 165 and 16y8m the frame is half-filled, and Bolles arms pitch real innings against real competition. The bet is the same as Johnston's — one more velo grade — but from the premium side of the rubber.

Twelve-month arc reads 84.5 → 89.7 → sitting 89–91 with 18.4" IVB at Shove Day two weeks after the FG, plus a sub-1000 rpm kick-change that kills 1500+ rpm off the fastball. The arrow is steep; he ranks here on distance from Charlottesville and present velo among a deeper board. If the T92 his X bio claims verifies this fall, revisit immediately.