118.2 mph exit velo! 103.8 mph fastball! These are the Arizona Fall League Statcast leaders

The Arizona Fall League is roughly midway through its 34th season, its second with Statcast technology available at all six of its ballparks. While only one Top 100 prospect shows up on the positional leaderboards (covering games through Oct. 25) below, the developmental circuit's highest-rated pitcher has dominated in terms of velocity.

Nationals right-hander Jarlin Susana, the lone Top 100 pitcher in the AFL at No. 66, not only owns the fastest pitch at 103.8 mph but also has thrown the 34 hardest heaters. He's averaging 100.6 mph per fastball and Cubs righty Jhon Cabral is the only other Fall Leaguer who has unleashed a single heater that hard.

Highest exit velocities

1. 118.2 mph: Alex McCoy, SD No. 26 (home run)
2. 116.7 mph: Yerlin Confidan, CIN (triple)
3. 115.2 mph: Antonio Anderson, BOS (home run)
4. 114.2 mph: Jorgelys Mota, WSH (home run)
5. 114.1 mph: Confidan (groundout)

McCoy's 435-foot blast off an 89-mph sinker by Marcus Johnson (Rays) is the fourth-hardest hit ball ever recorded by Statcast in the AFL, trailing Tony Blanco Jr. (120.4 mph, 2025), Kemp Alderman (119.5, 2024) and Eloy Jiménez (119.4, 2016). Only two big leaguers hit balls harder than McCoy this year: Oneil Cruz (119 mph) and Yordan Alvarez (118.5, twice).

Highest average exit velocities
minimum: 15 tracked batted balls

1. 98.5 mph: Confidan
2. 96.7 mph: McCoy
3. 96.3 mph: Brooks Bryan, KC
4. 95.5 mph: Tate Southisene, ATL No. 3/MLB No. 58
5. 94.8 mph: Dalton Wentz, SF

Second to McCoy in terms of the hardest-hit ball, Confidan leapfrogs him in terms of average exit velocity. He has blasted five balls at 110 mph or higher, while McCoy and Kyle West (Yankees) are the only other Fall Leaguers with as many as three. Confidan's 98.5 mph average ranks comfortably ahead of the Major League leader, James Wood (95.4 mph).

Longest home runs

1. 455 feet: Mota
2. 454 feet: Wyatt Sanford, PIT No. 5
3. 451 feet: Chase Harlan, LAD No. 9
4. 444 feet: Jack O'Dowd, COL
5. 442 feet: Bryan

Mota made his first AFL at-bat count with a mammoth blast off an 82-mph slider from Justin Lamkin (KC No. 8), one of the league's best pitchers. Only 40 big league homers traveled farther this season, highlighted by a 474-foot shot by Lazaro Montes. The longest recorded homer in Fall League history was 470 feet by Zyhir Hope in 2024, two years before the Dodgers included him in the Tarik Skubal trade.

Highest fastball velocities

1. 103.8 mph: Jarlin Susana, WSH No. 4/MLB No. 66
2. 103.4 mph: Susana
3. 103.3 mph: Susana (twice)
5. 103.2 mph: Susana

Coming back from lat surgery that prematurely ended his 2025 season, Susana topped out at 104 mph during the Triple-A National Championship Game in September, so his AFL exploits come as no surprise. Of the 98 pitches to reach triple digits in the league this fall, he has provided 82 of them. He also owns the seven hardest fastballs ever clocked by Statcast in the Fall League. The only pitchers to top 103.8 mph in the Majors this year were Jacob Misiorowski (24 times), Ben Joyce (five), Edgardo Henriquez (three) and Mason Miller (one).

Highest average fastball velocities
minimum: 35 tracked fastballs

1. 100.6 mph: Susana
2. 98.9 mph: Jhon Cabral, CHC
3. 97.6 mph: Antonio Gomez, NYY
4. 97.1 mph: Kannon Kemp, SD No. 13
5. 96.8 mph: Ryan Lambert, NYM

Susana parked at 100.2 mph during his lone Triple-A regular-season start and 102.8 mph during a two-inning relief appearance in the Triple-A championship. Just six big leaguers averaged triple digits on their fastballs this season: Justin Martinez (101.7 mph), Miller (101.4), Henriquez (100.8), Misiorowski (100.6), Jhoan Duran (100.5) and Tyron Guerrero (100.2)

Highest average spin rates (breaking balls)
minimum: 15 tracked breaking balls

1. 2,914 rpm: Tyler LaPorte, ATL (slider)
2. 2,885 rpm: Jose Geraldo, SEA (knuckle curve)
3. 2,870 rpm: Railin Perez, HOU (knuckle curve)
4. 2,848 rpm: Susana (slider)
5. 2,837 rpm: Adam Smith, SEA (slider)

Predominantly a shortstop when he played collegiately at Baton Rouge (La.) CC and Southern, LaPorte became a full-time pitcher in the independent Atlantic League and didn't join an MLB organization until the Braves signed him in February 2025, two months before he turned 28. He has logged a 2.41 ERA in two Minor League seasons and hasn't given up an earned run in five AFL outings, thanks in large part to a high-spin slider that operates at 82-85 mph with horizontal and vertical action. Ethan Roberts generated the highest spin rates on a Major League slider this year, averaging 3,191 rpm.

Highest sprint speeds

1. 31.1 ft/sec: Isaiah Drake, ATL No. 29
2. 31.0 ft/sec: Paxton Kling, TEX No. 20
3. 30.9 ft/sec: Drake
4 (tie). 30.8 ft/sec: Teo Banks, Nationals
4 (tie). 30.8 ft/sec: Brandon Butterworth, Orioles
4 (tie). 30.8 ft/sec: Braylon Payne, MIL No. 6 (three times)

Drake knows how to use his electrifying speed on the bases, swiping 97 bags in 277 Minor League games and three in as many tries in 11 Fall League contests. The highest recorded sprint speed on an AFL batted ball belongs to Nick Morabito at 33.3 mph on a double in 2025, which also matches the big league best this season turned in by Victor Scott.

Quickest pop times (home to second)

1. 1.81 seconds: Julian Brock, TEX
2 (tie). 1.82 seconds: Brock (twice)
2 (tie). 1.82 seconds: Sammy Hernandez, STL
5 (tie). 1.83 seconds: Brock
5 (tie). 1.83 seconds: Cole Conn, ATH No. 21
5 (tie). 1.83 seconds: Ty Harvey, SD No. 4
5 (tie). 1.83 seconds: Grant Magill, CWS

Fall League basestealers have succeeded at an 86 percent rate this year but only 76 percent of the time against Brock, who owns five of the 10 fastest pop times and the two hardest throws, maxing out at 87.4 mph. Walker Janek has the quickest recorded pop time in league history at 1.71, while Patrick Bailey had the best in the Majors this year at 1.68.

Highest infield/outfield velocities

1. 99.0 mph: Eduardo Quintero, LAD No. 2/MLB No. 15
2. 98.3 mph: Yasser Mercedes, MIN No. 17
3. 94.9 mph: Jake Cook, TOR No. 20
4. 94.3 mph: Mercedes
5. 93.9 mph: Cook

Quintero is one of the best prospects in baseball because he has some of the best all-around tools in the Minors, and he showed off his arm strength with a 99-mph bolt from right field. That paled in comparison to a 102.8-mph AFL throw from Brett Phillips in 2016 and this season's MLB-best 103.9 mph by Carson Benge.