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Draft  | Story  | 1/6/2025

PG Draft Spotlight: Sean Gamble

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Photo: Sean Gamble (Perfect Game)
Sean Gamble 

Position: OF/SS 
Height: 6-2 
Weight: 185 
Bats/Throws: L-R 
Birthdate: July 6, 2006 
High School: IMG Academy 
City, State: Des Moines, Iowa 
Travel Team: USA Prime 17U National/Detroit Tigers Scout Team 
Commitment: Vanderbilt 



Frame/Setup 

Gamble has a 6-foot-2, 185-pound build with tons of athleticism throughout, leaving room to project on the body moving forward. He’s well-proportioned with a lean look and quick-twitch actions overall. There’s muscle and strength in the upper-half and room to continue adding to the frame on campus at Vanderbilt or with an organization’s Player Development department. In the batters’ box, Gamble swings it from the left side, setting up with slightly open feet and a spread base. He keeps the hands higher and slightly coiled before leg-lift. He uses a bigger leg lift and will shorten up with two strikes. He loads up over the backside, gets the weight moving forward, and turns the hips well, working through the swing. Gamble's ultra-twitchy in his hips and turns hard through it and deliver the hands on-time, staying in-sync from heel-strike to follow through.  

Tools 

The operation at the plate is impressive and provides plenty to like for scouts. He’s got the bat speed and twitch from the left side to work gap-to-gap with success and the speed to pair, allowing him to extend plays and pick up extra-base hits. Gamble’s swing allows him to deliver the barrel with speed and strength, helping him net EVs above 100+ and impact with some authority behind it. Gamble is originally from Iowa but started attending IMG Academy as a sophomore to improve his development and national scouting and draft exposure.

Gamble’s most obvious tool is that he’s a plus-runner, turning in good run-times and having run a 6.42 60-yard dash during the PG National Showcase this summer. The speed plays both out-of-the-box and on the base paths and it also serves him well in the outfield as well, allowing him to run down balls in the gap while patrolling center field.  Gamble has a background at shortstop and it’s certainly possible that some pro organizations will look at the possibility that he could return to the dirt in the future.

Offensively, Gamble has a line drive approach that leans to pull to mid-field contact but his combination of physical projectability at 6-foot-2, 185-pounds and outstanding raw bat speed and exit velos gives evaluators reason to believe that he could develop middle of the order power.  The combination of speed and power potential as a left-handed hitter, along with his near certainty to stay in the middle of the field on defense, give Gamble a very high offensive ceiling.

“The Buzz” 

Gamble has been in the national spotlight since he participated in the Perfect Game 13U Select Festival in 2020 and been steadily ranked in the Top 10 in the PG Class rankings since those rankings were first introduced.  His early transfer to IMG has certainly boosted the opportunities for national level scouts to see and evaluate him during the spring and that development-oriented environment as definitely been advantageous as well.

If anything, Gamble’s stock is at an all-time high going into the spring after his performance last summer.  He was outstanding at the PG National Showcase, running a 6.42 sixty and throwing 92 mph from the outfield and regularly topping 100 mph exit velos in batting practice and in games, including a booming triple that exploded off the barrel at 108 mph.  The Class of 2025 is one of the more impressive high school classes in recent memory, especially among position players, and Gamble’s ranking sixth in the class is especially impressive in that context.

Summation 

Is Gamble to best all-around athlete in the talented 2025 class?  He seems to be the type who if you put him on a basketball court or football field or any other sports venue that he’d be a dominant player.  His combination of size, projectability and present tools make his physical package as impressive as any high school position prospect in the country.  That he has always performed at a high level against top level competition, and will continue to get that opportunity this spring, just adds to his entire draft package.
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