GT Baseball Signs Top 15 Recruiting Class

THE FLATS – Georgia Tech baseball head coach James Ramsey has signed yet another Top-20 recruiting class with the 2026 National Signing Day class coming in at No. 13 in both the Perfect Game and Baseball America rankings, it was announced today. Georgia Tech has now signed Top 20 recruiting classes in seven of the last eight seasons, the most in the Atlantic Coast Conference.

The Yellow Jackets signed 10 high school athletes into the GT Baseball family, five from Georgia, two from California and one each from Florida, Alabama and North Dakota. The Jackets No. 13 ranking from Perfect Game is the best in the ACC while GT comes in as the No. 2-ranked ACC recruiting class according to Baseball America.

Retaining talent from within the state of Georgia is always a priority and the 2027 class is no different. All five of the recruits signed from Georgia are ranked Top 15 in the state and three in the Top 10 according to Prep Baseball Report, the most in the nation and the only program from the state of Georgia to sign a Top 10 recruit from in-state.

“We’re really excited about this group of well rounded, hard working young men who have placed their trust in Georgia Tech today,” head coach James Ramsey said. “High school recruiting is the lifeblood of our program, starting in the state and expanding across the country. The rankings and recognitions are great but the thing that excites us is knowing that we have a group of guys from coast to coast who have shown us that they are ready to put in the work and believe that Georgia Tech is the best place for them to see results from that work. We’re happy to have a great group of high school talent joining us next year to help us maintain and grow our championship culture.”

The 2027 Signing Class

Name	Pos.	HT	WT	B/T	Hometown	High School
Malachi Butler	INF	6-3	190	L/R	Powder Springs, Ga.	McEachern HS
Anthony Iatarola	LHP	6-2	210	L/L	Lakeland, Fla	George W. Jenkins HS
Nathan Curcio	RHP/INF	6-0	178	R/R	Woodstock, Ga.	Etowah HS
Cason Borchardt	OF/LHP	6-3	195	L/L	Horace, N.D.	Horace HS
Brue Milner	C	5-11	205	R/R	Tallassee, Ala.	Tallassee HS
Evan Brand	INF	6-1	182	S/R	Acworth, Ga.	Kell HS
Brady Bickham	INF	6-1	185	R/R	Claremont, Calif.	Claremont HS
Andrew Brech	RHP	5-11	190	R/R	Dacula, Ga.	Mountain View HS
Jordan Kurz	INF	6-1	183	R/R	Tustin, Calif.	Orange Lutheran HS
Carter Allen	RHP	6-3	185	R/R	Carrollton, Ga.	Bremen HS

LOOKING FORWARD TO THE SEASON

Tech baseball, led by ACC coach of the Year James Ramsey, is looking to become the first team to win three-consecutive ACC regular season titles since 2003. The Jackets are coming off one of the most decorated seasons in program history, winning a second consecutive ACC regular season championship before winning the program’s first ACC tournament title since 2014 and earning the No. 2 national seed in the NCAA Tournament. The Yellow Jackets won the regular season ACC ERA title in conference play, posting a 4.36 ERA across 30 games while also boasting the greatest offense in modern college baseball, setting BBCOR era Power 4 records in batting average (.356), OPS (1.106), on-base percentage (.467), slugging percentage (.639), hits (763), runs scored (662) and runs/game (10.9).

Tech carries a healthy list of returners, a Top 10 ranked transfer portal class and another highly ranked high school recruiting class into the new year. GT returns All-American slugger Ryan Zuckerman from last year’s historic lineup along with everyday players Kent Schmidt, Will Baker and Caleb Daniel.

On the mound, the Jackets return an ACC best 60% of the innings pitched from a staff that led the conference in ERA over ACC competition. That staff is headlined by weekend starters Jackson Blakely and Carson Ballard as well as Justin Shadek, Cooper Underwood, Caden Gaudette, Dylan Loy and Dimitri Angelakos.

In the transfer portal, the Jackets brought in 11 new faces from all across the college baseball landscape, from junior college products like Holden Pantier (.441/.534/.849 over 131 games at Walters State), Division 2 with Jackson Morgan (.387/.467/.718 over 79 games at Young Harris), mid-major finds like Cooper Blauser (.304/.409/.480 over 123 games at Jacksonville State) and Eli Stephens (.348/.442/.676 over 83 games at Mercer) and power four transfers like Jayden Stroman (6.35 ERA over 16 games at Virginia), Jordan Lodise (.243/.338/.400 over 55 games at UCF)) and Josh Gunther (5.88 ERA over 67 games at Wake Forest and South Carolina).

From the high school ranks, the Jackets have brought in nine freshmen headlined by Top 100 ranked recruit and 17^th round draft pick by the Washington Nationals, Isaiah Galason (Kathleen, Ga.). On the mound, the Jackets added to the depth with nationally ranked recruits Ryan Engle (Kernersville, N.C.), Luke Nitkowski (Alpharetta, Ga.) and Reid Gainous (Cairo, Ga.).

Full Steam Ahead

Full Steam Ahead is a $500 million fundraising initiative to achieve Georgia Tech athletics’ goal of competing for championships at the highest level in the next era of intercollegiate athletics. The initiative will fund transformative projects for Tech athletics, including renovations of Bobby Dodd Stadium at Hyundai Field (the historic home of Georgia Tech football), the Zelnak Basketball Center (the practice and training facility for Tech basketball) and O’Keefe Gymnasium (the venerable home of Yellow Jackets volleyball), as well as additional projects and initiatives to further advance Georgia Tech athletics through program wide-operational support. All members of the Georgia Tech community are invited to visit atfund.org/FullSteamAhead for full details and renderings of the renovation projects, as well as to learn about opportunities to contribute online.

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