The most difficult thing, for the Five Tool team, about the inaugural Five Tool Festival wasn’t projecting the weather for Thursday and making contingency plans. It wasn’t securing the venues or getting top national teams to Texas to participate. The most difficult thing? Picking the All-Festival Team. 

Okay, so there might be a slight exaggeration in there, but you get the point. Going back through notes, videos, tweets, performances and more from an action-packed, star-studded event was as fun as it sounds for us baseball junkies. But selecting one team among all the standout performers from 14 good teams was really difficult. 

Without further ado, the Five Tool All-Festival Team: 

Scouts lined the fence each time Caden Sorrell stepped into the batter's box, and he gave them a show to remember. The athletic, left-handed hitter from Flower Mound Marcus smacked three homers and provided a huge presence in the middle of the lineup for the event's only undefeated team. He also touched 89 MPH on the mound and threw 5.0 quality innings with nine strikeouts to get the win. Yeah, that's outstanding. Most outstanding. 

Rockwall's Brayden Randle was a machine. The Ole Miss signee, who hits second for one of the state's top lineups, terrorized opposing pitching and then did the same to catchers when he reached base. He finished 10-for-16 with a home run, two doubles, a triple, and seven steals. On the mound, Stephen Sepulveda struck out 11 batters in a 7.0-inning, complete game win against Southlake Carroll. He gave up just one run. Behind the plate, Marcus' Van Klein hit a loud homer against Mater Dei, was a force with the bat all weekend and provided his usual leadership and defensive skill, too. 

The Most Outstanding Defensive Player could have gone to a few others, including Rockwall-Heath's Drew Smith. But Frenship's Landon Hutcheson made one of the plays of the event when he went full extension to rob Rock Hill of a game-winning hit. Off the bat, it looked like Hutcheson, a tremendous athlete who is uncommitted in the 2024 class, had no chance. He played center field at a future plus level and covered so much ground that Frenship could have used just two outfielders. 

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The catching trio boasted impressive offensive numbers and did an excellent job limiting opposing running games, too. All three members are currently uncommitted and all three should have the attention of college coaches in the region. 

Our infield group provided a great blend of athleticism, speed, defense and productivity with the bat. Magnolia Heights’ Cooper Pratt is the headliner and TCU signee Micah Kendrick continued to make a strong case that he’s one of the top infielders in Texas. Satterfied, Skinner and Irby all boosted their recruiting stock with strong all-around performances. 

In the outfield, you’ll find a bit of everything, including Carson Miller, who blasted three homers in a single game. Sims is among the few 2026 prospects who appeared to be great bets to become future stars. Melton was a hitting machine; Tomlin can hit and go get it and Prock is a big, physical, uncommitted bat. 

The utility section is loaded with two-way stars who pitched very well and also hit at a very high level. Truly, they are do-it-all studs. And the list of pitchers included a lot of complete games, a lot of heat and a lot of strikeouts. Limiting offenses to very few hits and runs is impressive anytime but especially in an event like this. Spoerl and Rose played huge roles in Rockwall’s very impressive performance and Hernandez was part of a trio of hard-throwing Americas pitchers who frustrated and overwhelmed hitters.

Stay tuned into FiveTool.org for more Five Tool Festival recap coverage throughout the week. 

Five Tool Staff