Social media can reveal some surprises, some embarrassing, others troubling, but in Elliot Mortimer's case, his revelation was welcome news.

Mortimer learned he was selected the District 11 pitcher of the year from a high school baseball website via Twitter.

"No one ever came to me and said I won the award," said Mortimer who is preparing for his freshman season at York College. "I found out on Twitter."

The website, Prep Baseball Report (PBR), frequently had scouts at Whitehall games, said manager Shaun O'Boyle who would often correspond via email with the men who covered eastern Pennsylvania for the online publication. O'Boyle said they would come to the games armed with radar guns and stopwatches, ready to detail the raw stats of players into their huge high school database.

O'Boyle said that he follows PBR on Twitter, noting they have quite a huge following. According to their website, they cover nine states, and for a subscription fee, interested parties can access the "premium content" which is the statistical information culled from a huge pool of high school baseball players.

"It's pretty interesting," said O'Boyle. "They report on all the prospects. It's a pretty good recruiting tool for college coaches."

O'Boyle said they want to know where a pitcher fastball tops out at, as well as the speed on their breaking balls, getting as much data as they can to feed into the system.

O'Boyle also received interest in Jake Wloczewski and Jeff Charles this past season from PBR.

Mortimer remembers them coming to Coca-Cola Park when he pitched against Parkland High School.

"They were there with stopwatches, timing how fast you ran from home to first," said Mortimer.

Mortimer pitched a gem that day, logging seven scoreless innings and allowing just five hits while striking out six in the 1-0 win.

Mortimer went on to beat Parkland twice that season, a feat no other pitcher in the Lehigh Valley Conference was able to do to the District 11 champs. That was one of the reasons he was named the pitcher of the year by PBR, demonstrating his ability to win the big game.

Mortimer finished the season 8-0 with one save. He had a 1.12 ERA, according to O'Boyle, a credit to his ability of keep hitters off balance.

"He just had a great year," said O'Boyle,

The PBR article, written by Jacob Gill, the Philadelphia Region Director of Scouting, provides a good statistical overview of Mortimer's senior season, one of the main reasons he was awarded the honor. Perhaps the most striking statistic is that Mortimer only allowed 13 walks in a little over 56 innings pitched.

When Mortimer found out he was selected as their pitcher of the year, he knew it was quite an honor considering the level of talent in the Lehigh Valley Conference.

"It's a great award to get, knowing that there's many outstanding pitchers in the district," said Mortimer.