Southwest Missouri is loaded with high school baseball talent that is capable of making an immediate jump to the pros.
Impact players at local programs such as Aurora, Kickapoo, Springfield Catholic, Willard and Glendale are high-level prospects that are already signed on to play at major colleges.
With the first pitch of the season approaching, we gathered a few of the top names the area should come to know before they're playing at the next level.
Here are six of the top high school baseball players in the area heading into the 2019 season:
Gage Singer, Aurora
Surprise, surprise; an Aurora Houn' Dawg enters the 2019 season as one of the top recruits, if not the top recruit, in Missouri.