Jamie Arnold, Travis Bazzana Highlight NCAA Week 13 Standouts (Hot Sheet)

Ryan Andrade, RHP, Pittsburgh

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 3 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 8 K

Andrade could not have picked a better time to turn in his best start of the season, as on Friday he outdueled Florida State ace Jamie Arnold and spun seven shutout innings in which he struck out eight and held the Seminoles’ potent offense to just three hits—all of which were singles. He generated 22 total swings and misses between his fastball and curveball, with 13 coming against his heater. Andrade’s fastball on Friday was up to 96 and flashed life at the top of the zone. He was able to consistently get it over the barrel of opposing hitters and located it well. Andrade’s curveball was effective against both right and lefthanded hitters, flashing depth and some sharp, downward bite. In his last two starts, Andrade has allowed just 1 run with 15 strikeouts across 14.1 total innings. He profiles as a potential day three pick this July. -PF

Jamie Arnold, LHP, Florida State

Class: 2025

What He Did: 7 IP, 3 H, 1 ER, 0 BB, 17 K

Arnold struck out a career-best 17 batters against Pittsburgh last weekend which put him in a group of just five D-I arms with 17 or more punchouts in a single game this season. It was the most strikeouts for a Florida State pitcher since 1987 but FSU somehow spoiled his outing and lost the game 1-0. Arnold has been tremendous in his sophomore season for the Seminoles and is positioning himself as one of the best arms in the 2025 draft class. He now has a 2.27 ERA in 13 starts and 75.1 innings with a 37.9% strikeout rate and 5.5% walk rate. He’s averaged 93-94 mph with his fastball, touched 97 and mixes in a strong mid-80s slider and mid-80s changeup. In this outing against Pittsburgh Arnold dominated with his fastball at the top of the zone and generated 23 misses with the pitch. His overall 34% miss rate on the fastball in 2024 is a strong rate for a heater. –CC

Travis Bazzana, 2B, Oregon State

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7-for-16 (.438), 10 R, 5 RBI, 2 HR, 1 2B, 7 BB, 4 K

The potential No. 1 overall pick continued what has been an historic season, and logged at least one hit in each of his four games. After hitting three home runs last Sunday, Bazzana on Monday crushed two more to up his season total to 26—a new Oregon State single-season record. On Sunday, Bazzana registered his 239th career hit—an RBI double—to set a new Oregon State all-time record. The Australian second baseman has as explosive an operation as you will find in the box, and he pairs his elite bat speed with an equally advanced feel for the barrel. Bazzana has also demonstrated high-level pitch recognition skills, which has led to a video game-like 66-to-28 walk-to-strikeout ratio. He is in the midst of a career year to the tune of a .424/.589/.972 slash line with 11 doubles, four triples, 26 home runs and 60 RBIs. Bazzana has dominated at every stop in his career and is a safe bet to be selected within the first three overall picks this July. -PF

Tyler Bremner, RHP, UC Santa Barbara

Class: 2025

What He Did: 9 IP, 4 H, 1 R, 0 BB, 12 K

Bremner spun the first complete-game of his college career and allowed one run on four hits with a career-high 12 strikeouts. The sophomore righthander allowed a leadoff double in the fourth inning, but proceeded to retire the next 16 hitters in order. While Bremner features a riding fastball that sits in the mid-90s and is most effective in the top-half of the strike zone, his changeup on Sunday was his best offering. Of his 26 whiffs, 18 came on his cambio that—on top of getting fantastic separation off his heater—flashed plenty of fade to the arm side with some tumble. Bremner rounds out his arsenal with a sharp mid-80s sweeping slider. His changeup and slider boast miss rates of 46% and 37%, respectively, and he has an advanced feel for both. Bremner this season has pitched his way to a 2.31 ERA with 82 strikeouts to just 18 walks across 70 innings and is on track to be one of the first college arms off the board in 2025. -PF

Merritt Beeker, LHP, Ball State

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 3 H, 1 R (0 ER), 1 BB, 13 K

Beeker struck out a season-high 13 batters (for the second time) against Central Michigan last Friday. It was his sixth double-digit strikeout effort in 13 games and upped his strikeout rate to 35.4% on the season. A 6-foot-2, 198-pound lefthander, Beeker sits 89-90 and touches 92 mph with his fastball and mixes in a slower breaking ball in the upper 70s that has generated a 51% miss rate this season. He pitched more off the slider against Central Michigan than his fastball and used the pitch to rack up 16 whiffs and finish 11 of his 13 strikeouts. Beeker now has a 4.66 ERa through 13 starts and 65.2 innings. –CC

Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 2 H, 1 ER, 1 BB, 16 K

There are only so many ways to describe how dominant Burns has been week after week. In a season that has included weekly double-digit strikeout efforts Burns set a new career-best mark when he struck out 16 Clemson batters. He also set the single-season strikeout record for Wake Forest in this game and now sits with 156 strikeouts—19 more than No. 2 Ryan Johnson. Burns also moved into the No. 1 spot for overall strikeout rate with a 49.4% mark that now tops Arkansas lefthander Hagen Smith at 48.9%. In typical Burns fashion he averaged 98 mph with his fastball, touched 100 and racked up 30 whiffs—19 on his upper-80s slider, 10 on the fastball and one on his low-80s curve. He has a 2.85 ERA in 13 starts and 82 innings with a 49.4% strikeout rate and 7.6% walk rate and his 41.8 K-BB% mark is the best in the nation and the only mark north of 40% among qualified arms. –CC

Derek Clark, LHP, West Virginia

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 2 BB, 10 K

Clark has been a durable starter for West Virginia this season and has the second-most complete games in the country among D-I arms with three such games. He only pitched seven complete innings last weekend against Kansas State but he struck out 10 (matching his season high) and didn’t allow a run. He now has a 3.14 ERA through 10 starts and 71.2 innings with a 22.6% strikeout rate and a 6.4% walk rate. Clark has a light fastball and sits around 88-89 and touches 92, but he mixes in a changeup, slider and curveball and commands his four-pitch mix consistently and gets by thanks to changing speeds and location while minimizing free passes. –CC

Ryan Gallagher, RHP, UC Santa Barbara

Class: 2024

What He Did: 8 IP, 2 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 13 K

Gallagher struck out a career-best 13 batters against Cal State Bakersfield last Friday and took a no-hitter into the seventh inning in the process. The game was his third double-digit strikeout effort of the season and he used a low-80s slider and a mid-70s changeup as his primary swing-and-miss offerings during the start. Gallagher is a 6-foot-4, 220-pound righthander who sits in the 89-90 mph range with his fastball and has touched 93, but he has generated a miss rate north of 40% with both his changeup and slider this season. He now has a 2.34 ERA through 11 starts and 69.1 innings with a 30.6% strikeout rate and 6.3% walk rate. –CC

Tanner Gillis, RHP, Northern Kentucky

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 1 H, 0 R, 1 BB, 9 K

Gillis threw his first shutout game of the season last Saturday against Purdue Fort Wayne when he threw seven innings and allowed just one hit and one walk while striking out nine. A 6-foot-3, 220-pound righthander Giller has been one of the most consistent and effective pitchers in the Horizon League during his grad student 2024 season and has a 4.84 ERA through 11 starts and 57.2 innings with a 26.4% strikeout rate and 9.3% walk rate. He throws a fastball in the 90-95 mph range and mixes in a low-to-mid-80s slider and a mid-80s changeup. –CC

Jackson Kitchen, OF, Western Michigan

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7-for-12 (.583), 7 R, 9 RBI, 3 HR, 1 3B, 1 2B, 2 BB, 2 K

Kitchen used a 5-for-5, five RBI performance on Friday to propel himself to the most productive week of his season to this point. Not only did he go 5-for-5, but Kitchen on Friday also blasted two home runs and hit for the cycle. After homering again on Saturday, Kitchen concluded his weekend by driving in three more runs in Sunday’s series-clinching win over Northern Illinois. Kitchen deploys a sound approach and has some quickness in his hands, and this season he is hitting .275/.414/.445 with 15 extra-base hits. -PF

Dayne Pengelly, RHP, New Mexico

Class: 2024

What He Did: 7 IP, 4 H, 0 R, 3 BB, 12 K

Pengelly is a 6-foot-3, 205-pound righthander who is coming off his most dominant start of the season last Friday against Nevada. His previous high in strikeouts was the nine he had against San Diego State in late April, but he set a season-high with 12 in seven shutout innings against Nevada. Pengelly mostly works off a two-pitch mix that features a fastball that sits at 93 mph and a low-80s slider. He used the fastball nearly 75% of the time in this outing and it was responsible for 13 misses and 10 of his 12 strikeouts. Pengelly lowered his season ERA to 6.95 in this game. –CC

Garrett Pennington, 1B, NC State

Class: 2024

What He Did: 11-for-17 (.647), 11 R, 11 RBI, 3 HR, 2 2B, 2 BB, 1 K

Pennington laced three hits in each of the Wolfpack’s three games this weekend and was a key reason as to why they were able to notch a big-time road series win over Virginia. The veteran first baseman’s biggest swing of the weekend came on Friday, as he hammered a two-run home run that wound up being the difference-maker. In Sunday’s finale, Pennington laced an RBI single to kickstart a four-run fourth inning before walloping his third two-run home run of the weekend to give the Pack a pair of insurance runs. Pennington has blossomed since transferring to NC State and is on track to have the most productive season of his lengthy collegiate career. This season he is hitting .352/.432/.654 with 19 doubles, 14 home runs and 54 RBIs. -PF

Tre Phelps, OF, Georgia

Class: 2025

What He Did: 6-for-14 (.429), 7 R, 9 RBI, 4 HR, 1 2B, 1 BB, 1 K

After playing sparingly through the first month-and-a-half of the season, Phelps has established himself as a key cog within Georgia’s high-powered lineup. In the Bulldogs’ emphatic sweep of South Carolina, the freshman outfielder hammered four home runs—including two on Thursday—and had multiple RBIs in all three games. Phelps is plenty physical at 6-foot-2 and 204-pounds, and boasts thunderous bat speed with plus raw power to the pull side. Perhaps most impressively, Phelps this season—albeit in a somewhat limited sample size—has shown an advanced feel for the barrel to the tune of a 90% in-zone contact rate. Across 24 games, Phelps is hitting .385/.470/.750 with eight doubles, nine home runs and 32 RBIs. He profiles as one of the more intriguing sophomore-eligible prospects in the 2025 class. -PF

Cole Singsank, 1B, College of Charleston

Class: 2024

What He Did: 9-for-17 (.529), 9 R, 15 RBI, 6 HR, 2 2B, 4 BB, 4 K

Singsank had arguably the best week of any hitter in the country, as across just four games he drove in an eye-popping 15 runs. He began it by stringing together three-straight two-home run games, headlined by a 4-for-5 showing on Saturday in which he also clubbed two doubles and drove in seven runs. Singsank came into last week hitting a modest .270, but has since raised his average to .298. His career-high 16 home runs lead the team, while his 48 RBIs are also a new career-high and rank second. Singsank this season has shown the ability to backspin the baseball with authority to all fields and will look to finish the regular-season on a high note. -PF

Cameron Sisneros, 1B, East Tennessee State

Class: 2024

What He Did: 8-for-17 (.471), 5 R, 14 RBI, 4 HR, 2 BB, 1 K

Sisneros last season hit .383/.472/.692 with 18 doubles and 16 home runs, though this year he has already eclipsed his 2023 production levels. This weekend was another chapter in what has been an excellent two-year division-1 career for Sisneros, as he turned in a pair of multi-homer games and drove in 14 runs. In the Pirates’ lone win of the weekend, the burly first baseman drove in eight runs—four of which came on a grand slam. Sisneros has present bat speed and lets his immense natural strength do much of the work. His 97% in-zone contact rate against fastballs is incredibly impressive, and this season he is hitting .372/.494/.782 with 14 doubles, a career-high 21 home runs and 78 RBIs. -PF

Reed Spenrath, 1B, New Mexico

Class: 2024

What He Did: 5-for-13 (.385), 4 R, 10 RBI, 3 HR, 1 BB, 2 K

Spenrath finds himself on this week’s hot sheet primarily for his Friday night offensive performance against Nevada. The big and physical 6-foot-5, 230-pound lefty slugger went 3-for-5 with three home runs—two of which were grand slams. It was the first time since Mark Gulseth 1992 when a New Mexico hitter hit two grand slams in the same game and Spenrath pushed his season total to 14. He’s now slashing .356/.472/.707 and has cut his strikeout rate from 30.7% in 2023 to 22.7% in 2024 in his senior season. –CC

John Spikerman, OF, Oklahoma

Class: 2024

What He Did: 9-for-14 (.643), 9 R, 10 RBI, 1 HR, 1 3B, 3 2B, 1 BB, 1 K

Spikerman had multi-hit games in all three of his games against Baylor last weekend, highlighted by a 4-for-5 effort in the series finale that featured a triple and a double. A speedy outfielder with a 6-foot, 190-pound frame, Spikerman also added his third homer of the season in the series but it’s his contact and plate discipline (as well as his speed) that drives his offensive value. He’s having the best season of his college career and is now slashing .407/.463/.602 with an 11.7% strikeout rate and 10.2% walk rate. –CC

Bryson Van Sickle, LHP, Utah

Class: 2024

What He Did: 9 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 2 BB, 8 K

Van Sickle makes his return to the Hot Sheet after a complete-game effort against No. 21 Arizona in which he allowed only one run on three hits with eight strikeouts. The veteran southpaw began his outing with 3.2 hitless innings before allowing a triple, though he remained unphased and stayed in rhythm. Van Sickle generated 11 whiffs on his slurvey, mid-to-high 70s breaking ball and lived around the strike zone for the entirety of his outing. He consistently stayed off the barrel of Arizona’s hitters and worked predominantly to the arm side. Van Sickle this spring has been Utah’s most reliable arm and has pitched his way to a 2.80 ERA with 58 strikeouts to 18 walks across 80.1 innings. -PF

Jakob Wright, LHP, Cal Poly

Class: 2024

What He Did: 8 IP, 3 H, 1 R, 1 BB, 9 K

Wright on Friday continued what has been an excellent season by firing eight innings of one-run ball in which he surrendered just 3 hits, all of which were singles. He only garnered nine total whiffs, though he evaded any sort of hard contact for the entirety of his outing. Wright features a low-90s fastball that has been up to 95 with life through the zone, but his bread-and-butter pitch is a mid-80s sweeper that features ample sharp lateral tilt. He also mixes in a distinct, high-70s curveball. Wright spins the pitch well, and it will routinely flash a bigger shape with downward teeth. He has a 2.77 ERA with 92 strikeouts across 78 innings this spring and projects to be a day two pick in this year’s draft. -PF