We finish our look at the 2028 Line Drive HOT 100 player rankings for now 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, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia
• Region 2—Southeast
  • Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee
• Region 3 – Midwest
  • Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, Wisconsin
• Region 4—West
  • Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Oregon,  Washington
• Region 5 – 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 the club team is located 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 2028 Line Drive HOT 100 which were published in the following order:

• #’s 100-91 (Mon., May 12, 2025)
• #’s 90-81 (Tue., May 13, 2025)
• #’s 80-71 (Wed., May 14, 2025)
• #’s 70-61 (Thu., May 15, 2025)
• #’s 60-51 (Fri. May 16, 2025)
• #’s 50-41 (Mon., May 19, 2025)
• #’s 40-31 (Tue., May 20, 2025)
• #’s 30-21 (Wed., May 21, 2025)
• #’s 20-11 (Thu., May 22, 2025)
• #’s 10-1 (Fri. May 23, 2025)

We also honored those on the verge of breaking into the HOT 100, those Ranked 101+ and also we’ve looked at these outstanding ‘28’s by Position Rankings (May 29, 2025).

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NEXT UP: the 2027 Line Drive HOT 100 (click HERE to see the schedule)!

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Here are the REGIONAL Rankings:

(first column is ranking #):