Colt Adams

Righthander Colt Adams had surpassed Jonathan Holdzkom as the top juco pitcher in the state even before Holdzkom left the scene. Making Adams even more attractive, he's not under control to any club because he had Tommy John surgery last year. He transferred to Dixie after starting his college career at Colorado Northwestern Community College. His fastball velocity has come back, and he's shown more facility for throwing strikes than many Tommy John alumni. Adams, who didn't pitch in 2005, has a solid 6-foot-4, 215-pound frame and controls his 90-91 mph fastball well. It's not often that an average fastball, a body with some projection left and a junior-college pitcher come in the same package as someone with a knack for pitching (known in scouting shorthand as pitchability), but that's Adams. Facing wood bats, Adams walked just 15 in 81 innings and was considered a superior prospect to fellow starters Chris Reap and Chad Povich.