PORTLAND, Ore. – Wednesday, Commissioner Rob Neyer announced Bryce Hill and Ethan Porter as the West Coast League’s 2026 Top Prospects; the first co-winners in the eight-year history of the award.

Hill and Porter, both of the Corvallis Knights, anchor the final WCL Spotlight list of the year. It’s the fifth time in eight years a Knight (or in this case, Knights) have taken home the honor, following Brooks Lee (2019), Travis Bazzana (2021), Kevin Takeuchi (2024) and Brock Ketelsen (2025).

Hill, a right-hander who will enroll at Stanford this fall, earned second-team All-WCL honors as a starting pitcher. In 28 innings, he struck out 40 batters and posted a 3.25 ERA. Late in the season, Hill threw a fastball at 101.7 miles per hour — the fastest pitch recorded by TrackMan across all collegiate summer leagues in 2026.

Porter, an outfielder returning to Oregon State this fall, batted .338/.446/.524 in the regular season. He delivered the game-winning hit at the 2026 WCL All-Star Game, where he was named Top Prospect by the MLB scouts in attendance. As a freshman at Oregon State, Porter batted .293 with a .480 on-base percentage and 10 extra-base hits in 37 games.

“Bryce and Ethan gave us two completely different reasons to pay attention all summer,” said Neyer. “One’s throwing triple digits, the other seems to control his at-bats with ease, and somehow they were doing it for the same team at the same time. In the tradition of previous WCL standouts like Aiva Arquette, Brock Ketelsen and Jackson Flora, we’ll spend the next few years enjoying where their paths lead.”

August 17: Executive, Broadcaster, and Scorekeeper Awards
August 19: Coach, Umpire, and Sportsmanship Awards
August 20: All-WCL Team
August 24: MVP and Pitcher of the Year Awards
August 26: Top Prospect Award

About the West Coast League
The West Coast League is North America’s premier summer collegiate baseball league, now in its 21st season. Sixteen teams span the region from Oregon to Alberta, giving top amateur athletes a grand stage for competition, development, and connection with the communities they represent, in the finest summer baseball weather on the continent. In each of the last three seasons, a WCL alumnus has been selected in the top five of the MLB Draft, and 10 players have come off the board in the first 10 picks over the last decade.