He definitely has the look of a low leverage weekend reliever and/or…
midweek innings eater.
He effectively missed two years (2024, 2025) due to TJ injury but had a nice summer in 2025 in the NECBL (3.79 era, 1.42 whip in 19.0 innings) that earned him a cameo in the Cape and then followed that up with a solid season at Bryant this year.
In looking at his game logs from this past season, 51.2 of his 59.1 innings this year were against offenses that ranked outside the Top 210 per Massey Ratings, so he hasn’t faced particularly good competition. And his performance against the few good offenses he faced was not particularly good (1.2 ip, 5 h, 3 er, 2 hr vs. #59 Clemson; 3.0 ip, 7 h, 5 er, 5 xbh, 3 wp vs. #98 Rutgers). He did throw 3.0 hitless and scoreless innings against #156 Davidson, and he did have 2 bb vs. 5 so against Clemson and Rutgers combined, so to your point, he should be useful as a complimentary bullpen arm.
A couple other things to note…while he was injured in 2025, he served as his team’s leader in data analytics, operating Trackman during home games. Also of interest, we actually faced him in 2023 with what was his college debut where he faced five batters and got the first two batters out (Nick Holesa fouled out, Jack Hurley lined out) but then proceeded to walk the next three (Sam Tackett on 6 pitches, Chris Sparber on 5 pitches and Gehrig Ebel on 5 pitches) before being taken out and his replacement getting an out to get out of the jam.
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Updated VT Baseball 2027 Roster Projection...
-- QCP
Jul 01, 2026 at 12:45 PM ET
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07/01/26 12:45 PM ET
Kaden Hillburger RHP from Bryant
-- Vawter Tech
Jul 01, 2026 at 02:34 PM ET
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07/01/26 02:34 PM ET
His dad and my son are good friends!**
-- HokieHeartNSoul
Jul 03, 2026 at 08:29 PM ET
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07/03/26 08:29 PM ET
He definitely has the look of a low leverage weekend reliever and/or…
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-- QCP
Jul 01, 2026 at 11:16 PM ET
QCP
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07/01/26 11:16 PM ET
Add George Adams (FIU) to the fold as well
-- Vawter Tech
Jul 02, 2026 at 08:57 AM ET
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07/02/26 08:57 AM ET