Ty Ostrowski ranked top 14U outfielder in state, following distinguished family sports tradition
July 19, 2023 at 11:52 p.m.
His is a famous sports name in local and national history, and he is starting to more than live up to it.
Despite his thoroughbred athletic bloodlines, Tyrus Ostrowski, named after baseball immortal Ty Cobb, has long been in the shadow of his more famous sisters Brooklyn and Madison, among the best female athletes in Port Chester history, who are now both attending Villanova University on softball scholarships.
Coming into his own
But now Ty is starting to come into his own as a nationally-ranked pitcher, catcher and outfielder who has hit for average (.402) and power. He has a fielding percentage (.974) and an overpowering fastball percentage (80 mph ranking him in the 94th percentile in his age group with 55 strikeouts in 44 innings pitched with an earned run average of 1.70.
Ty, a switch-hitting star with the nationally-ranked Grit 14U Black National Team, has been ranked as the number one outfielder in New York State for the class of 2027, eighth overall and a "High Follow" prospect nationally by the Perfect Game (PG) rating system that ranks him as the 64th best outfielder in the nation.
Showcasing talent
His team is ranked 26th nationally by PG and he is one of the best players on the team.
Ty has been invited to play in the 14U National Showcase All-Star Game in West Palm Beach, Fla., at the end of July.
He has also been invited to and will represent New York in the Perfect Game All State Games in Texas in the fall.
He has already played in 11 tournaments this spring and summer, winning numerous awards while playing a grueling schedule that has taken him and his team to Memphis, Tenn., Tomball, Tex., Sanford and West Palm Beach, Fla., and throughout the tri-state area.
MVPs galore
Ty has been named the MVP for the 14U Easter Extravaganza Tournament at Diamond Nation, with his game highlights including a walk-off hit to win the championship game of that tournament which was featured on CS89TV, and DiamondNation/RMT Media, was named the most valuable pitcher for two other tournaments (the 14U PG Super25 Mid-Atlantic Spring Super Qualifier and 14U PG Northeast Super NIT/PGI Qualifier) and was named to the All-Tournament Team for 10 of the 10 Perfect Game Tournaments played this spring/summer.
His Black National 14U team is 48-12-1.
And his middle school record is just as good.
Brunswick gets nod
While Ty came up through the Port Chester Youth Baseball League age group ranks, he switched to Brunswick Middle School in Greenwich, Conn., because he wanted to play in a faster-paced prep school league than the Port Chester Middle School offered. His team was undefeated 12-0 last season, he batted .560 as a centerfielder, pitcher and catcher, won the Brunswick Middle School Coach's Award and has made the honor roll every semester.
The Port Chester Rams varsity coach considers Ty the player who got away, the kind of once-in-a-generation talent who makes the difference between a winning and losing team.
More to come
You ain't seen nothing yet because Ty has thoroughbred athletic blood lines: his father Jay was an All-Navy centerfielder and semi-pro baseball player. His mother DeAnne, a Con Ed engineer, marathon runner and triathlon participant, was a starting pitcher for the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, quarterbacked the first female football team there and was an ensign on a destroyer in the Mediterranean when she met Jay. Both have coached local teams. And Brooklyn and Madi, the so-called Big and Little O, have helped Villanova become a perennial Big East softball power.
Ty is on his way to following in their footsteps while helping to make Brunswick a national prep school power as did another former PCYBL star, Aaron Sabato, a University of North Carolina All-America slugging first baseman who signed a multi-million-dollar baseball contract with the Minnesota Twins.
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