Tyson Bobo used this past DREAM Series to refine his pitching tools before heading to Lubbock, Texas, where he has committed to play for Texas Tech. The Southern California high school senior is an efficient utility man and flaunted that ability during his junior year campaign in which he tossed 16.0 innings while leading his team in home runs (4) and ranking second in RBI (26). Bobo made the short trip from San Diego to Phoenix where he sharpened his tools before his final year of high school.
While many players begin competing in these joint initiatives as high school freshmen and return through their senior year, Bobo is a relative newcomer. Even so, he has already identified the benefits of being a part of this close-knit group of athletes and the opportunity to learn from experienced instructors like former player and current Minnesota Twins bullpen coach, LaTroy Hawkins.
“From a developmental standpoint I’m learning from the best guys around, day in and day out,” said Bobo. “You’re bound to get better when you come here. This is such a rare opportunity – you don’t get it anywhere else,” Bobo continued. “Aside from the game, the coaches are just really good people to learn from. We have ‘chalk talks’ where we all just talk about everything outside of baseball.”
Bobo listens as a DREAM Series coach gives instruction
For the future Red Raider, the camp offers more than on-field development. It also provides the opportunity to grow as a person and heed advice from those who were once in his place. Bobo takes advantage of every resource this event has to offer, one being the PDP Performance Assessment each player participates in.
“It’s been very helpful for me,” Bobo said about using the metrics from his PDP Performance Assessment in his training. “Just having that resource, the availability to use that in my training, and getting specific about what I can do and where I’m putting my energy, it gives me such an upper hand. For example, a big thing has been putting power in the ground and using force weights to measure how fast I can do that.”
Nowhere is this more evident than Bobo’s upward progression in athletic-based metrics over the past three years. From 2023-2025, Bobo participated in several MLB Develops and USA Baseball events where he continued to improve during PDP testing. For example, Bobo’s max countermovement jump height increased from 18.8 inches in 2023 to 23.7 inches in 2025. In addition, Bobo immensely improved his peak power output, notching 4,246 watts in 2023, 4,492 watts in 2024, and 5,211 watts in 2025.
After camp, Bobo said he leaves with clear goals for the upcoming season, even if they may not be baseball related.
“One thing I’m trying to focus on this year is just letting myself be more authentic. I’m trying to stop limiting myself to what I can do and just let myself do it.”
