We continue our look at the 2031 Line Drive HOT 100 player rankings as we go across the nation by REGION and rank the players by their area of the country according to the following groupings: 

• Region 1 – Northeast
  • Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, West Virginia
• Region 2 – East Coast
  • New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia
• Region 3 – Southeast
  • Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, Tennessee
• Region 4 – Midwest
  • Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin
• Region 5 – West
  • Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon,  Washington
• Region 6  – Southwest/Mountain
  • Arkansas, Colorado, Idaho, Kansas, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Utah, Texas, Wyoming

Note: the states attributed to the players are primarily based on where they live as well as their club team location as that, most of the time, corresponds to the region (although we do recognize that some athletes play for travel teams in a different region).

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Over the last month, we profiled the 2031 Line Drive HOT 100 which were published in the following order:

• #’s 100-91 (Mon., Jan. 12, 2026)
• #’s 90-81 (Tue., Jan. 13, 2026)
• #’s 80-71 (Wed., Jan. 14, 2026)
• #’s 70-61 (Thu., Jan. 15, 2026)
• #’s 60-51 (Fri. Jan. 16, 2026)
• #’s 50-41 (Mon., Jan. 19, 2026)
• #’s 40-31 (Tue., Jan. 20, 2026)
• #’s 30-21 (Wed., Jan. 21, 2026)
• #’s 20-11 (Thu., Jan. 22, 2026)
• #’s 10-1 (Fri. Jan. 23, 2026)

We also honored those on the verge of breaking into the HOT 100, those On the Bubble (101+) and also we’ve looked at these outstanding 2031’s by Position Rankings.

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NEXT UP: the 2030 Line Drive HOT 100 (click HERE to see the complete schedule for this year)! 

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Here are the REGIONAL Rankings:

(first column is ranking # in that region):