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College hitters continued their blistering pace in Week 4 of the regular season with several standout performances, while top-end college arms continued to rack up strikeouts with standout pitches.
With the help of 64Analytics.com, Baseball America is back with the Freak Sheet to highlight five hitters and pitchers who produced standout data in Week 4:
Hitters
Maximus Martin, SS, Kansas State
Martin was arguably as productive as any hitter in the nation in Week 4. The Georgia State transfer went 8-for-12 with five home runs, 12 RBIs and a double to help the Wildcats sweep William and Mary in their final nonconference weekend.
Martin ranks fourth nationally in Weight Runs Created Efficiency (wRCE), according to 64Analytics, while roughly maintaining his whiff (29%) and chase (23%) rates from his final season at Georgia State. He also ranked No. 15 nationally in ISO (.520) among batters with at least 40 at-bats.
Ryland Zaborowski, 3B, Georgia
If Martin had Week 4’s most impressive performance, Zaborowski wasn’t far behind. He went 7-for-16 with six home runs and 18 RBIs, which helped propel the Bulldogs to another 5-0 week and 18-1 overall on the season.
Zaborowski now leads Division I hitters with at least 40 at-bats in ISO and trails only Tennessee’s Gavin Kilen in wRCE.
A transfer from Miami (OH), Zaborowski has impressively cut his whiff and chase rates down from 28% and 25%, respectively, last year to 21% and 19%. SEC play will provide a challenge unlike anything Zaborowski has faced before in his career, which will test his improved plate presence.
Wehiwa Aloy, SS, Arkansas
No. 3 Arkansas is 16-1 entering the weekend. The Razorbacks’ success has been due in large part to brothers Kuhio Aloy and Wehiwa Aloy, the latter of which put together a career week to close out non-conference play.
The Arkansas shortstop, who joined the program prior to the 2024 season as a transfer from Sacramento State, went 12-for-19 with three home runs, four doubles, 11 RBIs and just one strikeout over five games. He now has the seventh-best wRCE+ among Division I hitters on 64Analytics.
Aloy has safely reached base on 48% of the balls he’s put in play so far this season and was picked No. 38 overall in BA’s first mock draft of the year.
Aaron Downs, OF, Mississippi State
While Downs isn’t quite an everyday starter with 10 appearances on the lineup card in 16 games, the outfielder has certainly maximized his opportunities.
Downs has already slugged seven homers after entering the year with zero career home runs in three seasons. He hit four in just two Week 4 starts, vaulting him to No. 27 nationally in wRCE.
Daniel Cuvet, 3B, Miami
One of the most impressive freshman bats in the ACC in 2024, Cuvet is off to another strong start and could again rank among the league’s top bats.
The corner infielder on March 4 against Florida International recorded exit velocities of 111.7 mph and 104.2 mph, the former of which left the yard.
Cuvet’s thunderous raw power has produced four home runs, two doubles and a .317 batting average. He’ll need to cut down on his chase, though, as he currently goes after pitches outside the zone at a 41% clip, which is far too high.
Cuvet is ranked No. 34 among 2026 college draft prospects.
Pitchers
Ethan Norby, LHP, East Carolina
Even in a week that included an individual nine-inning no-hitter, Norby’s performance took center stage. He carved through a very good Coastal Carolina team, limiting it to three hits and striking out 19 over 7.1 innings.
Norby’s outing was so strong it catapulted him to No. 6 nationally in individual Weighted Run Allowed Efficiency (wRAE), according to 64Analytics. The southpaw is also one of just 18 Division I pitchers with a 40% or higher strikeout rate and at least 18 innings pitched on the year.
Mason Peters, LHP, Dallas Baptist
In the weeks leading up to the season, scouts and Dallas Baptist coaches alike raved to Baseball America about the Patriots’ lefty closer, a transfer from Temple College, who imposed his will on hitters throughout the preseason with a standout fastball-curveball combo.
After struggling to immediately support the hype by surrendering five earned runs in an inning against UTRGV on Feb. 18, Peters has taken on dominant form, throwing 11 straight scoreless innings with 14 strikeouts and just four walks (three of which came in one game).
Peters dominated now-No. 8 Oklahoma in Week 4with five strikeouts over two scoreless innings in which he continued to lean on his heavy curveball, which generates over 3,000 rpms of spin and has drawn a 38% miss rate as of March 13.
Dax Whitney, RHP, Oregon State
Whitney struggled in his second and third starts of his career, allowing eight earned runs and walking five over seven innings, but bounced back beautifully in his fourth appearance with six shutout innings and 10 strikeouts against just one walk against San Diego.
Whitney’s curveball produced half of his strikeouts throughout the outing and sat in the 2,700 rpms range throughout the outing. His fastball climbed into the high 90s, produced four more punchouts, and spun into the 2,500s.
But Whitney’s curveball landed him on this week’s Freak Sheet (his second appearance after making the list in Week 1) as the pitch is currently generating a 42% whiff rate.
Blake Gillespie, RHP, Charlotte
Gillespie could have made this list on the strength of his outing alone. He threw the first no-hitter in 49ers program history and struck out 11 while allowing just one base runner on the night.
But Gillespie, a transfer from Georgia, has also produced standout data that goes beyond his surface statistics and results and point toward him perhaps being a middle-rounds draft selection this summer. The righty so far this season has leaned on his slider as his primary pitch, throwing the offering 51% of the time. The slurvy pitch has generated a 42% miss rate, which is well above-average.
Jake Murray, LHP, Campbell
Murray had everything working in his most recent start against Texas State when he struck out 14 batters, walked just one and didn’t allow a hit over six innings. The graduate student retired his last 13 consecutive batters and threw roughly a third of his pitches for strikes.
Murray enters Week 5 sporting three different pitches—a slider (64%), changeup (50%) and curveball (48%)—that generate high whiff rates. He also owns a respectable 35% ground ball rate and, like Norby, is one of 18 pitchers with a 40% or better strikeout rate in at least 18 innings, according to 64Analytics.
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