California All-State
Four wins. Two days. 8-7. 10-3. 6-5. 8-2. Gold.
Every rep, every at-bat, every practice this season points at one week in upstate New York — the field every kid who plays this game grows up hearing about.
A contact hitter, a shortstop and catcher, a menace on the base paths. The numbers, the trajectory, the time at each position — going back further than he can remember, to t-ball at four.
Five games into 12U Gold he's 0-for-6, but read the six at-bats: five balls in play that found gloves and a single strikeout — the contact is there, the hits haven't landed yet. Everything else has: six walks, ten stolen bases, seven runs scored, and on Sunday a one-inning relief outing that earned him the win in a walk-off. Over his last seven he's reaching base at a .500 clip with thirteen steals.
Four wins. Two days. 8-7. 10-3. 6-5. 8-2. Gold.
No Coach. Team bailed. California & Florida merged to try and get it done. It looked bad, shutout Game 1. But they persevered, one game at a time, the underdogs battling back to the Bronze final.
Second in pool play bought a bye to the semifinal — and a rematch with Teal, the one team to solve them Saturday. It went the distance, a two-run first the final margin. The season ended on Elias's hardest ball of the day: a line drive up the middle the pitcher caught on pure reaction.
Every batted ball charted in GameChanger. Batting and pitching as separate views.
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Every PG metric, vs. 2033 class peers.
Top-tier aerobic engine — pairs with the elite 10-yard split (top 5%).
The defining catcher tool — glove-to-bag on a steal attempt. Measured at the PG Stats Camp.
PG percentiles compare Elias to graduation-year peers — many of whom have already hit growth spurts he hasn't. So the vs build column on the metric list shows what his real skill profile looks like against peers his own size.* The size will catch up.
All tracked seasons of development mapped (9U → 12U), 200+ at-bats: trends, situational splits, current streaks, and the shape of his game.
“vs build” and projected growth are estimates, not predictions — grounded in Sgroi 2015 (throwing velocity) · Smith 2021 (grip & maturity) · Ruf 2024 (sprint & maturity) · Driveline (youth aging curves) · Cumming 2018 (bio-banding).