08/02/2021 - Official College Recruiting Membership - Hoover (Birmingham), AL Kort is a C prospect who will graduate in 2022. Medium frame solid build with strength present. Behind the dish, he has active/efficient and works around the baseball. Beats ball to spot with a loud mitt. Good lateral movement, with good blocking angles, and a soft chest enables him to deaden ball. Tucks chin and blocks the 5-hole. He works thumb under, with a quick/clean exchange, into an over-the-top arm slot on his throws to second base. Arm velocity was 78mph and his best pop time was 2.18 seconds. A right-handed hitter, he hits from an upright and open stance. Connected swing, with upper body and lower body synched up, and a flat barrel path through the zone. Short/direct to ball, with good extension, enable Kort to spray line drives to all fields with a bat a bat exit of 77mph during BP. With another year of growth and development, we see him having a bright future on the baseball field.