Prep Baseball Report

2025 Georgia Preview: Pickens Dragons


Prep Baseball Georgia
Staff

The 2025 high school baseball season is quickly approaching and as usual, excitement abounds throughout the state. Players and coaches have been working in preparation for the upcoming season and, as is the case each year, there are some very talented players and teams across Georgia.

Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in the GHSA or GIAA state playoffs, but there is plenty of work to be done before that becomes reality. We hope to familiarize our readers with many of the teams across the state as we preview individual teams across Georgia. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews and by continuing our scheduled podcasts and releasing our preseason top-10 rankings in each GHSA classification and Power 25.

Please keep checking back throughout the season as we will be your one-stop shop for everything related to high school baseball across the state.

Each week we will be releasing our Players of the Week, updating the top-10 ranks in each GHSA classification, as well updating our Power 25 overall rankings. One thing, especially, you don’t want to miss are our scheduled podcasts with guests from across the state, as well as the recaps and previews of the big games we’re covering.

*Please note the information has been gathered from head coaches across the state, based on their replies to the questionnaire we distributed over this offseason.

High School: Pickens Dragons
Head Coach: Adam Williams
Classification: GHSA Class 3A
Region: 6-3A
2024 Record (Finish): 29-8, Elite 8
No. of Returning Positional Starters: 8
Team Strengths:  Overall team makeup


TOP RETURNING PLAYERS 

  • 2025 3B Cade Sutton
  • 2025 OF Dawson Holland
  • 2026 RHP/SS AJ Rice, Auburn commit
  • 2026 2B/RHP Christian Starks
  • 2026 C Kam Jenkins 
  • 2026 OF Ezra Faber
  • 2026 RHP Davin Abernathy

TOP UNDERCLASSMEN

  • 2027 RHP Dylan Walls 
  • 2027 C/1B Dawson Lowit
  • 2027 MIF Jennings Allen
  • 2027 C Drew Dunlap

TEAM OUTLOOK

In what looks to be a brutal 6-3A region, Coach Adam Williams will have a challenge on his hands as the Dragons look to three-peat as region champions but this club returns quality talent that understands what it takes to win. 2024 Future Gamer and Auburn commit AJ Rice will be the engine that makes this team go as SP1 as well as a likely resident at SS. The junior became a household name in 2024, and has the type of swing-and-miss stuff to be one of the best arms in the state this spring. Behind Rice in the rotation is another talented junior two-way in uncommitted 2B/RHP Christian Starks, who looks to fill many roles once again for this Dragon ballclub and sophomore RHP Dylan Walls has a chance to be a breakout candidate as he comes off a big fall campaign and poised for a rotation spot. The bullpen will have plenty of depth highlighted by junior RHPs Davin Abernathy and Jackson Nunn. Senior leadership in the lineup comes in the way of 3B Cade Sutton and OF Dawson Holland, who both look to fill middle-of-the-order roles alongside junior C Kam Jenkins giving the Dragons potential for a stout 3-4-5 in the lineup. OF/RHP Ezra Faber earned some valuable experience as a sophomore, and now looks in-line for an everyday role but in the outfield and providing bullpen depth as well. IF Jennings Allen and C/1B Dawson Lowit are two sophomores who could have big roles this upcoming spring with Lowit having a path towards an everyday 1B role out of the gate. 29 wins in back-to-back years is nothing to scoff at, and Pickens will be looking to stack wins once again this spring.


Find more information on the 2025 Pickens program below:

+ Follow them on X: @PHSbaseballGA
+ Visit the Prep Baseball Georgia, 2025 HS Team Previews


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