2025 Top 10 Prospects (August Update)
August 27, 2024
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Austin Park SS / Juab High, UT / 2025
2022-2023 Future Games 2023-2024 West Coast ProCase 2024 Deseret News "Mr. Baseball" 2024 Gatorade Player of the Year 2024 Prep Baseball Utah Player of the Year Top 5 in the nation in RBI (58) 2nd highest total in state history!
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Dylan Singleton LHP / PDG Academy, VA / 2025UNCOMMITTED 2022-2023 Future Games 2024 West Coast ProCase 2024 Sr Future Games 2024 Reds Area Code Team
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Case Beames RHP / Brighton , UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 3 / POS: 1
2023 Future Games
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Chase Johnston LHP / Maple Mountain High, UT / 2025
2022-2023 Future Games 2024 West Coast ProCase
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Cal Miller C / Viewmont, UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 5 / POS: 1
2020 15U USA National Team 2024 5A Player of the Year 2024 Reds Area Code Team
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Haigen Reed OF / Desert Hills High, UT / 2025UNCOMMITTED 2023 West Coast Games 2024 West Coast ProCase 2024 4A Player of the Year
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Riley Brown 3B / Brighton, UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 7 / POS: 1
UNCOMMITTED (Taking Trips) 2024 Sr Future Games
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Merrick Bostock 3B / Orem High, UT / 2025UNCOMMITTED (Taking Trips) 2023 Future Games 2024 West Coast ProCase 2024 Sr Future Games
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Josh Mawhinney RHP / Brighton , UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 9 / POS: 2
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Andrew Lyon RHP / Snow Canyon, UT / 2025Rankings State Rank: 10 / POS: 3
2023 Future Games
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SCOUTING DIRECTOR (BIO)
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) just recently returned from Korea and signed with the NL Champion Arizona Diamondbacks and is in AAA with the Reno Aces.
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 2022. 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 27, Miranda 24, McKenzie 22 and the couples only son, Grant Scholzen 19, who is a freshman 2B at D1 WCC school, the U of the Pacific (Pacific Tigers) on scholarship. 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 8 years. Between both families, Jeff has 3 grandchildren and 5 step grandchildren (8 total) and 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.