Tyler Baird

Draft Prospects

• Ranked #43 prospect in 2025 draft
  School: William Amos Hough HS, Cornelius, N.C. Committed: Vanderbilt
  Age At Draft: 18.9
  Baird is a long-limbed pitcher with starter traits. He’s a solid strike-thrower, reaches 94 mph with a fastball that has good armside run and projection for more velocity to come. Baird has high confidence in his changeup, a pitch that has good separation off his fastball at 78-82 mph and late dive underneath bats when it’s at its best. Baird’s breaking stuff took a step forward in 2023, with a slider that added power and tight snap at its best to give him another bat-missing pitch.
• Ranked #42 prospect in 2025 draft
  School: William Amos Hough HS, Cornelius, N.C. Committed: Vanderbilt
  Age At Draft: 18.9
  Baird is a long-limbed pitcher with a projectable 6-foot-4 frame and a fastball that has been up to 94 mph with good armside run and the projection for more velocity to come, though he will have to tighten his fastball command. Baird at times has shown high confidence in his changeup, a pitch that has good separation off his fastball at 78-82 mph and late dive underneath bats when it’s at its best. More recently he has leaned more on his slider, an upper-70s to low-80s pitch that he spins at 2,300-2,500 rpm.