Vaughan HPP Performance Spotlight

Over the past 16 weeks, our hitters committed to a process. Not a quick fix. Not a one-day adjustment. A full progression built on repetition, structure and accountability.

Every player was pushed to understand not just how to hit, but why they were doing it. What we have now isn’t just a collection of numbers.

It’s a reflection of development.

Understanding the Leaderboard

The graphic shown reflects Week 16 performance, highlighting each player’s most recent testing results in terms of average and max exit velocity. However, it’s important to understand that this leaderboard was not built on a single day of data.

These players were selected based on their work and performance throughout the entire program to this point, including their progression, consistency and ability to apply adjustments from Week 1 through Week 16.

This is not just a snapshot, it’s a body of work.

And with four weeks still remaining in the program, there is more opportunity ahead for players to continue climbing, improving and redefining where they stand.

It’s also important to note that the 15U and 16U groups are completing their testing using wood bats, which adds another layer of difficulty and realism to their results. Producing these exit velocities with wood reflects a higher level of barrel control, strength and efficiency, and provides a more accurate indicator of how performance translates to the next level.

More Than Just Exit Velocity

When people look at a leaderboard, the first thing they usually notice is the top number, who hit it the hardest, but inside this program, we look deeper than that.

We track:

• Average Exit Velocity

• Max Exit Velocity

• Consistency over time

Because hitting isn’t about one swing, it’s about repeating your best swing, over and over again, under different conditions. The players who stand out aren’t just producing high numbers, they’re producing them consistently.

Development Over Time

One of the most important parts of this program is that nothing is based on a single day. Every player was evaluated across multiple checkpoints, every four weeks.

That progression tells the real story.

Some players started strong and maintained it and others built their way up and finished stronger than they began. In both cases, what matters is that growth was measurable, trackable and earned.

That’s how real development works.

What This Means Moving Forward

This leaderboard is not an endpoint, it’s a checkpoint. With four weeks still remaining, the opportunity is still there for players to:

• Continue improving their numbers

• Tighten their consistency

• Translate these gains into game performance

The foundation has been built, now it’s about finishing strong.

What these players have shown over 16 weeks is what we value as a program, not just results, but how those results are achieved.

• Consistency

• Efficiency

• Repeatability

Those are the traits that translate, those are the traits that last and those are the traits that define the standard moving forward.