2025 Utah Preseason All-State: Quick Hits ~ Oufielders
February 28, 2025
This past Saturday, February 22nd, the Prep Baseball Utah staff hosted it's marquee showcase of the preseason with the annual Utah Preseason All-State at Crimson Cliffs HS, in Washington, Utah. This event continues to serve as the top preseason high school event in the State. This event featured 115 of the top prospects in the 2025 - 2028 classes and featured a strong crop of both committed and uncommitted upperclassmen, as well as several of the premier unsigned underclassmen ready to open their recruitment this upcoming summer.
Preseason All-State events allow top players in each region to showcase their offseason gains ahead of the high school season with an updated profile, completed with a new headshots, updated metrics through out tech partners TrackMan, Blast Motion, VALD Performance, Vizual Edge and more. These events also serve as identifiers for Invite-Only events in Utah such as the Preseason All-State, Top Prospect Games and Utah State Games, as well as national events such as the Future Games, Senior Future Games and West Coast Games.
The past few days, we broke down the top measurable data performers from the event with our Statistical Analysis, Positional Data Dive and Pitching Data Dive articles. Now, we will take a further in-depth look at some of the players in our "Quick Hits" breakdowns, starting withn the Infielders with the help of our tech partnerships, broke down below:
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Outfielders (Prime 9)
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Bubba Ellis OF / 3B / Brighton, UT / 2026Rankings State Rank: 17 / POS: 4
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/3B A player that has really improved his data/metrics and overall game. Has improved from a 7.6/60 as a 8th grader to 7.38 as a freshman, 7.09 as a sophomore to now 6.69. Testament to his hard work and has tools. Can run, has quality data and raw power that's developing. One to definitely keep an eye on this coming spring for the #1 preseason ranked Brighton Bengals! Body: 5-10, 189-pounds. Small compact frame with filled out muscular features. Overall twitch to his build with present strength Hit: LHH. Semi crouched with knee flexion and an even prop stance to hit Has a flatter plane on pitches up and down in the sweet spot of the zone, gets some slight uphill to be on-plane with the incoming pitch. 70.7 mph bat speed with 9 G's of rotational acceleration. Power: 99 max exit velocity, averaged 87.7 mph. 343' max distance. Has emerging power as he hit .298 with 2 HR and 5 2B's as a sophomore. Shows 99 max EV and was 77 as an 8th grader. Consistent improvement over the last 3-4 years. Look for even more power output this coming spring Arm: RH. OF-84 mph. Clean arm path with an 85 mph and can see 88-89 in his future. Arm works properly ATH: 6.69 runner in the 60. Has improved his 60 time better than the rest of any class. Twitch to his movement patterns and can really scoot! |
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Miles Robinson OF / 3B / Skyridge, UT / 2026Rankings State Rank: 8 / POS: 1
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/3B The surprise of the State Games as he smoked ball after ball at a max EV of 101 and turned heads with a sound stroke to hit and can run! Robinson also was the leader with a 6.69/60 at both the State Games and Preseason All-State, running the same time at both events. Miles showed 4 usable tools with the arm being the only below tool in his tool box. It will be fun to see where this kid ends up over the next two years as the tools are that of a legit D1 prospect! Body: 6-1, 178-pounds. Strong twitchy athletic build with man strength projection. Well prop and looks the part Arm: RH. Arm is BA and his only non hit tool that projects below. LF arm and speed and instincts for CF ATH: 6.68 runner in the 60. 6.69 runner that has the lower 1/2 twitch to run balls down in the OF and go 1st to 3rd at will on the bases with instincts. Still a little raw, but the tools are ahead of the skills, but with two years to go and playing for a big time HC, that used to be the BYU recruiting coordinator, the instruction is top notch to make marked improvements |
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Dylan Frank OF / 2B / Bingham, UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 28 / POS: 9
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/2B Moved to Utah from the Sacramento are before his sophomore year. A Future Games/West Coast Games alum that has fallen through some cracks. Quality D2/High JC type tools. Great makeup! Body: 6-1, 180-pounds. Tall lean athletic with a streamlined look and twitch Hit: RHH. Semi crouched slightly open even prop stance. Solid separation between the load and front foot strike LD all fields gap power with occasional pull side juice. More LD alley to alley vs over the fence 79.5 mph bat speed with 10 G's of rotational acceleration. Power: 99 max exit velocity, averaged 88.0 mph. 332' max distance. Power alley juice and sprays the ball around the field with 100 max EV's. Arm: RH. OF-88 mph. Can throw and the arm works properly with arm strength nd quality arm stroke. Defense: Take proper routes and can play all 3 OF spots with solid reads and jumps. ATH: 6.83 runner in the 60. Moves well with a gliding gate. 6.83/60 with instincts for balls in the dirt and looks for extra bases out of the box |
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Cooper Goff OF / Mountain Ridge, UT / 2027Rankings State Rank: 5 / POS: 2
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Committed: Texas Christian Positional Profile: OF The TCU commit was offered based on strong game play, oozing projections to his overall game and the bloodlines that come with the easy to projs athletic LH bat. Father Mike, I coached against as a catcher in the mid to late 90's at the U of Utah. Brother Parker Goff is the starting catcher at present as Junior at BYU. Cooper gets his season going next week and will be a key bat on a loaded team. Body: 5-11, 160-pounds. A small frame with a lean athletic build and projects nicely to eventually be a 6-0 185-190 Lb corner OF. Looks the part of an immature body at his age and is ready to takeoff in the next one to two years. Hit: LHH. An upright even prop stance with his bat in a positional setup to get to quality separation and shows balance in and throughout his quality stroke to hit High contact with minimal swing and miss. A low launch angle (11.5) with a flatter bat path, allows for high contact and the bat stays in the zone a long time. 70.9 mph bat speed with 12 G's of rotational acceleration. Power: 97 max exit velocity, averaged 87.9 mph. 382' max distance. Flashes big boy power for a 5-11 160 Lb frame. The ball jumps off his bat with a 97 max EV and features quality Blast data for his age and shows data for a player much older and advanced. Speaks to his advance approach to his swing for a young 16 year old prospect. Arm: RH. OF-77 mph. The arm is his lone tool that needs to come around and playing long toss and really getting after it in the gym will see his 77 mph arm jumped to the mid-80's within a yes's time potentially. Vizual Edge: 72.3 Edge Score |
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Porter Campbell OF / LHP / Pine View, UT / 2027Rankings State Rank: 6 / POS: 3
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/LHP The best production of any freshman in the state a year ago. Hit .405 in the 1-2 toughest regions to hit in, as the FB velo is mid to upper 80's and he hit .405 in 101 PA's with 16 extra base hits. 26 RBI from the 7 hole in the order, promises to only increase when he gets some protection behind him in be the lineup. Here's the call to action, that if Porter can dedicate himself to the weight room and put on 15 additional Lb's of muscle and size, Campbell will find himself oh the shortlist for the Future Games Body: 5-7, 145-pounds. A small pint sized LF with a small frame to get Lb for Lb strong to makeup for the typical profile view of the corner OF type ATH: 6.98 runner in the 60. A 6.98 twitchy 60 yard provides hope and promise that with added lower 1/2 strength and side, coupled with twitchy athleticism, a 6.6 type is in the cards and his future Vizual Edge: 80.14 Edge Score |
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Trig Richards OF / LHP / Salem Hills, UT / 2027Rankings State Rank: 7 / POS: 4
Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/LHP An athletic two way, that I can see as a hitter first and has a quality swing with more than solid data for his class and age. An athlete that can run, throw and projects pull side juice at maturity. Body: 5-11, 168-pounds. A projectable 5-11 168, that runs near any and has a streamlined well prop athletic build with avg strength that projects solid over the next 3 years Hit: LHH. Upright even prop square stance with his bat at shoulder height and rocks back with a slight draw back with the front leg and gets to near solid separation, yet has a quick fire striking motion on approach to the baseball, just before he gets to the full launch pos. Flatter plane with back spin LD's to the center and pull side in BP. Stays on plane well at 70-87% thruout his event looks. Barrel stays in the zone for contact 73.6 mph bat speed with 13 G's of rotational acceleration. Power: 96 max exit velocity, averaged 91.1 mph. 358' max distance. Latent power as he drives back spin LD's vs loft approach. Stays on pitches and buries his nose to the ball to stay through the baseball. Back of the net type off a tee Arm: LH. OF-83 mph. An 84 arm with a clean efficient arm stroke with 3 years to go, gives promise for an upper 80's to near 90 in due time Defense: Tracks balls and gets solid jumps. Just needs to work as most do on his routes and footwork on his breaks to balls side to side and over his head. Will come with time and instruction ATH: 7.09 runner in the 60. Near any runner at 7.09/60 and as his lower 1/2 fills and strengthens, look for some 6.7-6.8's in his future Vizual Edge: 89.85 Edge Score |
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Austin Brown OF / 1B / Wasatch, UT / 2028Scouting Report: 2/22/25 Positional Profile: OF/1B A small town kid that performs and shows the ability to compete in the summer vs higher quality big school pitching. Body: 6-0, 189-pounds. Lean athletic look with a elite next level type build Hit: LHH. Upright semi spread and even prop with the bat high and at a 45 over his back shoulder Fluid path with big metrics at every event. Slight uphill and on-plane efficient stroke to hit! 76 mph bat speed with 13 G's of rotational acceleration. Power: 99 max exit velocity, averaged 92.3 mph. 365' max distance. Huge power and best raw power in the 2028 class across the country. Hit a HR over the scoreboad at LakePoint at last summer's Future Games. 15U National HR Derby Champion. Arm: LH. OF-82 mph. Arm works and plays one hop to the target. Can envision an upper 80's to 90 arm by 2028. Defense: Gets solid reads and jumps for a freshman. Looks the part in the OF. Makes all the routinw with solid movement patterns. ATH: 7.27 runner in the 60. Smooth running strides with improvements as his lower 1/2 strength kicks in. Vizual Edge: 83.22 Edge Score |
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Reid Deede OF / OF / Springville, UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 14 / POS: 7
Scouting Report: 2/22/25
Positional Profile: OF/OF
Body: 6-3, 194-pounds. Looks the part getting off the bus!
Hit: RHH. Solid upright semi square to even prop stance. Hands over back shoulder Flatter path with some loft to the pull side and had 8 BB vs 12 K's a year ago 76.5 mph bat speed with 4 G's of rotational acceleration.
Power: 98 max exit velocity, averaged 89.1 mph. 378' max distance. Latent power and the ball jumps on a line and can carry deep to LF for HR power. 55 Raw Power
Arm: RH. OF-82 mph. Okay arm strength. Needs to improve and see doing so as he focuses on baseball at the next level
Defense: Okay jumps and reads and angles and nuances will improve with added reps and quality instruction
ATH: 6.85 runner in the 60. EZ runner that runs well for a physical corner OF. Can go 1st to 3rd and 1st to home on extra base hits
Vizual Edge: 90.63 Edge Score (#1 Score)
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Scholzen comes to Prep Baseball after serving 9 years as the "Four Corners" Scouting Supervisor with the Milwaukee Brewers (2011-2020). Prior to his run with the Brewers, Scholzen worked for the Los Angeles Angels for 11 years (1999-2010), serving in the same capacity as the "Four Corners" Scouting Supervisor (UT, WY, So-ID, Las Vegas, AZ, CO, NM and El Paso). Scholzen received a 2002 World Series ring for his contributions as a scout with the Angels.
With the Angels, Scholzen created an Angels Scout Team, in which he coached the following MLB players: Kris Bryant, Kevin Gausman, Greg Bird, Tyler Wagner, Aaron Blair, Joey Rickard, Donn Roach, Johnny Field, Taylor Cole, Andy Burns and Paul Sewald to name a few.
During his run with the the Angels, Scholzen also served as the hitting coach for the Angels rookie ball affiliate in the Pioneer League, the Orem Owlz, helping guide the Owlz to the 2005 and 2007 Pioneer League titles, which earned Jeff two more championship rings.
In Scholzen's 20 year scouting career, he was credited with the signing of 6 MLB players starting with:
Brandon Wood, SS, Angels 2003, 1st Rd ~ Efren Navarro, 1B, Angels 2007, 50th Rd ~ Donn Roach, RHP, Angels 2010, 3rd Rd ~ Tyler Wagner, RHP, Brewers 2012, 4th Rd ~ Payton Henry, C, Brewers 2016, 6th Rd ~ Ryan Aguilar, 1B/OF - Brewers 2017, 31st Rd ~ Scholzen also had an additional 3 players added to various clubs 40 man MLB rosters over the years.
2019 (14th Rd) draft pick, RHP-Paxton Schultz from Utah Valley U, is currently in AAA (Buffalo Bisons) with the Toronto Blue Jays, and former 40 man Brewers rostered RHP (Utah Tech) Dylan File, just recently signed a AAA contract with the Seattle Mariners.
Prior to becoming a professional scout, Scholzen served as the head coach at Southern Utah University between 1993-1997. At the time, Scholzen was the youngest Division I head coach in the country, when he was first hired at 24 years old. The Southern Utah baseball program was dropped after the 2012 season. While coaching at Southern Utah, Scholzen served as the hitting coach for the Alaska Goldpanners in 1995, as they won the Alaska League Championship. Scholzen also recruited and coached World Series RHP-Ryan Jensen of the San Francisco Giants, who would earn a top 5 finish for NL Rookie of the Year in 2002. Scholzen and Jensen had the unique opportunity, to be on opposing sides of the ledger, when Scholzen's Angels and Jensen's Giants squared off in the 2002 MLB Fall Classic.
Scholzen also had the pleasure of coaching Jensen's roommate and back up catcher, Kyle Turner who has worked in professional/major league baseball for 24 years. Kyle currently is in his 14th season with the big league Kansas City Royals and serves as the clubs Head Athletic Trainer. Turner was instramental, while a young player for Scholzen at Southern Utah, in introducing Scholzen to his first wife, the late Heidi Dalton Scholzen, who passed away in December of 2014. A native of Utah, Scholzen played at Hurricane HS and was twice named 1st team All-State and an AAU HM All-American, before moving on to Utah Valley CC and Eastern Oregon University, earning All-Conference honors on three separate occasions. Scholzen played in the Angels’ organization in 1991.
Scholzen was married to his late wife Heidi for 20 years and their union produced four children - McKyla 28, Miranda 25, McKenzie 23 and the couples only son, Grant Scholzen 19, played 2B/3B at D1 WCC school, the U of the Pacific (Pacific Tigers) on scholarship, in 2024 and transferred to Salt Lake CC.
After Heidi's passing in 2014, Scholzen married Cami Macias Scholzen, a widow herself and the same age as Heidi and the couple now have been married 9 years. Between both families, Jeff has 3 grandchildren and 5 step grandchildren (8 total). The Scholzen's reside in Hurricane, UT in the bottom left SW corner of the state, near the most iconic and scenic national parks in the country.