Peyton Prescott grew up playing baseball in and around his native Sebastian, Florida, a beach town roughly an hour-and-a-half from Orlando. He spent his first two years of high school attending Sebastian River High School and then transferred to the prestigious TNXL Academy for his last two. While he showed promise, with a fastball that reached 93 MPH and a solid blend of secondary pitches, it was not enough to get him drafted in the 2023 MLB Draft. As a result, after graduating, honored his commitment
to the University of Jacksonville.
The right-hander appeared in 16 games for the Dolphins, starting 6, and posted a 6.02 ERA in 55.1 innings, allowing 62 hits, walking 22, and striking out 46. Additionally, he logged 21 at-bats and went 4-21 with a double, 1 stolen base, and 4 walks to 3 strikeouts. Following the conclusion of the 2024 season, Prescott entered the NCAA transfer portal and transferred to Florida State University.
A draft-eligible sophomore, head coach Link Jarrett put the right-hander in the Seminoles bullpen and scrapped the two-way player experimentation, and while the results were not eye-popping, Prescott performed better. Appearing in 24 games, he posted a 5.15 ERA in 36.1 innings, allowing 42 hits, walking 17, and striking out 46. Florida State ended the season with a 42-16 overall record and advanced to the NCAA Super Regionals, where they faced Oregon State. In the deciding game three, a game that the Seminoles lost 14-10, Prescott, who had pitched two innings in relief the day before, was brought in to pitch the bottom of the seventh inning but injured his elbow after recording two outs. The right-hander needed Tommy John surgery to correct the issue and underwent the procedure in early July.
Prior to his injury and subsequent Tommy John surgery, Prescott threw from a high-three-quarter arm slot, driving and dropping off the mound with a short arm action through the back. His arm generated plenty of velocity, but placed a lot of stress on his arm, which may have been the cause of his elbow injury. His fastball averaged roughly 96 MPH in 2025 and regularly touched 100 MPH. He paired the pitch with a wide assortment of pitches, including a mid-80s slider, mid-80s splitter, and a low-80s curveball.
Prescott generally was able to throw his pitches for strikes early in at-bats, but sometimes struggled to put away batters, nibbling and missing the zone and eventually walking them too often. His stuff played best in the zone, particularly his fastball, which had the brute force necessary to be blown past batters. While his secondary pitches all project as fringe-average-to-average offerings at present, he has work to do in terms of tightening them up and improving his command as to get more batters to go fishing outside the zone.
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