Mike Adams
President/Co-founder
Recruiting Coordinator
All American Prospects Baseball, Inc.
5153 Misty Morn Road
Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Phone: 561-602-2476
Email: laws2326@gmail.com

BIOGRAPHY: Coach Adams has won state and national championships at nearly every level of youth baseball during more than a decade as summer coach of the Palm Beach Dream Team, Team Florida USA and, now, the All American Prospects. He has coached more than a dozen players who have gone on to play for USA Baseball's youth and junior national teams. Coach Adams' Dream Team set and still holds many records at Cooperstown Dreams Park ( Cooperstown , NY ). Coach Adams is a nationally recognized PGA golf professional, rated as one of the top golf pros in the country by Golf Magazine . He has also published more than 12 books on how to play golf and even had his own television show on golf on CNNSI and ESPN. His involvement and success in developing young players is well known by college recruiters and professional scouts. His son, Matt Adams, attends Yale University.

 

Bruce Arrick
General Manager/ 18U Manager
7365 S.W. 123 St
Miami, FL 33156
Phone: 305-613-7351
Email: bruce@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Arrick is a practicing attorney in Miami, Florida. He received his undergraduate degree from the Univerisity of Florida in 1977 and his Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida College of Law in 1981. Mr. Arrick receives the highest lawyer rating in his area of practice, A-V, from Martindale Hubbell. Mr. Arrick was formerly a tennis professional and instructor from 1973-1980 with Nick Bollitieri's All American Sports and Offense-Defense Tennis Academy training aspiring tennis players. In addition to his law practice, Mr. Arrick formed a youth baseball team in Miami, Florida known as the Miami Titans which participated in travel baseball from 2002-2005 as one of the most successful teams in the South, if not the country, at their respective age levels. In 2006, Mr. Arrick brought several of his most talented players and joined forces with the All American Prospects. Mr. Arrick now serves as the organization's General Manager overseeing the day to day operations of the organization and is involved in all aspects of the Prospects Organization.

 

Harvey Perez
Assistant General Manager
Phone: 561-719-8225
Email: staff@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Perez began his coaching career over 25 years ago in Wellington, Florida where he was a founding member of the Wellington youth baseball program. He has coached very diverse baseball teams from recreational league to Florida Division 6A High School teams.  Since 1994 and before travel ball was the norm, Mr. Perez was organizing and traveling with different high school teams to expose them to the best possible competition.  From 2001 through the summer of 2009 he managed and coached Team Mizuno to numerous state and national championships.  Mr. Perez has had a great deal of success in developing young players and is well respected by college coaches and professional scouts.  His son Austin will be playing baseball for Stetson University this fall and Mr. Perez will be following many other players he has assisted in their baseball endeavors.

 

David Parra
Director of Baseball Operations/Manager 17U Program
165 53rd Ct. SW
Vero Beach, FL 32968
Phone: 319-651-0154
Email: dave@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: David Parra begins his 3rd season as a Field Manager in the All American Prospects program. The Prospects compiled a 43-5 record, in 2008, en route to 2 National Championships at the prestigious AABC Mickey Mantle World Series and the WWBA Under Class World Championship. in 2009, the Prospects added another USA 16U National Championship. Prior to the Prospects, Dave managed 6 seasons in the Northwoods League. The Northwoods League is widely regarded as one of the best collegiate summer leagues in the country. Dave finished his career with 211 victories, which ranks 3rd all-time. He was named to the Northwoods League All-Decade Team for accomplishments as a player and coach, including the single season record for pitching victories (11) in a single season(1997). Dave finished his playing career with the Cleveland Indians and has been a scout for the Indians since the fall of 2000.

 

Brook Fordyce
Manager 16U Program/ Head of Instuction/ Director of Player Development
7675 Ellipse Way
Stuart, FL 34994
Phone: 772-631-1045
Email: brook@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Brook Fordyce is Owner and Lead Instructor of the Frozen Ropes of Stuart. Brook began his professional baseball career in 1989 with the New York Mets as a third round draft pick out of high school. He led the Appalachian league catchers with a .991 fielding percentage and was named to the Appy All-Star and All-Rookie teams. In 1992, he set career highs in virtually every offensive category at Class AA Binghamton, throwing out 41% of opposing base stealers and finished with a .278 average and 61 RBI's. In 1996, he was named Class AAA All-Star Game most valuable player, and compiled an 11 game hitting streak, along with 16 career highs of 16 home runs and 64 RBI's, being voted the top catcher in the American Association.
In 1999, in his first American League season with the Chicago White Sox, he held a .297 average with 9 home runs and 49 RBI's - his average was the 2nd highest among American League catchers and was the highest by a White Sox catcher since 1970. In 2000, he signed with the Orioles, and posted a .301 average with 14 home runs and 49 RBI's, and was in the top 5 American League catchers with a .507 slugging percentage. As the catcher for the 2003 Orioles season, he was third among American League catchers with a .996 fielding percentage and received the Roberto Clemente Award for his work with the Red Cross.

 

Mike DiRosa
Hitting Coach/ 16U Red Field Manager
10836 SW 123rd Place
Miami, FL 33186
Phone: 305-345-5312
Email: staff@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Mike DiRosa has coached with the All American Prospects for two summers, as head coach of the Prospects Gray team. Formerly, Mike was a catcher with the Ohio Warhawks and attended Coral Gables High School where he earned first team all-state honors. Mike was drafted out of high school by the Cleveland Indians, but chose to attend college, playing for Coach Jim Morris and the two-time 1999 and 2001 National Champion University of Miami Hurricanes. After his junior year , Mike was drafted by the Arizona Diamondbacks and spent five years in their organization, catching the likes of Randy Johnson and Brandon Webb, reaching AA  with the Tennessee Smokies before injuries ended his career. Mike recently completed his degree at UM and  continues in his position as a coach and instructor within the AA Prospects organization.

 

Alex Morales
Assistant Player Development/Director of Scouting
Email: staff@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Alex Morales, a Palm Beach State College alumnus and a former scout with the Atlanta Braves, Milwaukee Brewers and Major League Scouting Bureau, is the baseball coach.  Morales worked for the Major League Scouting Bureau for three years prior to coming to Palm Beach Sate. He also was a minor league coach and scout for six years with the Milwaukee Brewers and has several championships to his credit. Coach Morales was recently named the 2010 Southern conference Coach of the Year.

Morales’ baseball career began as a student at Belle Glade Christian High School. He played baseball for Palm Beach State in Lake Worth from 1983-86 and for the University of South Florida where he earned a bachelor’s degree in sociology. He later earned a B.A. in education from Nova Southeastern University. His teaching and coaching career began at his high school alma mater and continued at Forest Hill High School from 1989-94. He spent the next year as an assistant coach at Palm Beach State, leaving the college to coach and scout for the Brewers. Morales spent two years scouting for the Atlanta Braves after that. He had been with the Major League Scouting Bureau since 2002. As a major league scout, Morales traveled all over the world to scout players, watching around 400 baseball games a year. "I’ve watched every kind of coaching imaginable," he said. "I spent time in Asia, the Caribbean, Canada, Europe and all over the United States."

 

Jeff Noreman
Director of Technology and Communications
P.O. Box 365
Old Bethpage, NY 11804
Phone: 516-753-2125
Email: jeff@aaprospects.com

BIOGRAPHY: Jeff Noreman created Nexus Unlimited, Inc. in 1991 as a way to help businesses and individuals use technology to help them succeed. Nexus assists individuals and businesses as a partner, not just a vendor. Jeff has developed databases for manufacturers and banks. He has extensive experience with Windows, Macintosh, and WebOS. Nexus provides web and email hosting, spam filtering, as well as business class internet access. Jeff also has extensive experience in business contingency and disaster recovery. Jeff has also been active in the baseball world for more 15 years. He owns and is the lead instructor of Ballplayers Academy, which trains ballplayers with two overriding philosophies. First, you must train beyond the challenge that you will meet on the field in the game, and second, that you must measure everything that you can to objectively see where you are. Jeff has coached teams for the South Shore Indians, the Long Island Ducks, the Long Island Bandits, the Long Island Mustangs, and the Long Island Whalers. He is in the second year coaching at St. Dominic High School, the 2009 Long Island Catholic School Champions. Jeff created teamCommunicate.com, blending the world of technology with baseball. teamCommunicate.com lets managers, leagues, and academy owners notify their ballplayers and families of schedules and last minute changes. Teams like the All American Prospects get web hosting, email, spam filtering, and voice-to-text to keep their ballplayers and their families notified with up-to-the minute information.   

 

Greg Coleman
Legal Counsel
515 N. Flagler Drive, Suite 400
West Palm Beach , FL 33401
Email: gcoleman@bclclaw.com

BIOGRAPHY: Gregory W. Coleman received his Juris Doctor from the Stetson University College of Law in 1989. He has been a member of the law firm of Burman, Critton, Luttier and Coleman, LLP since 1995 and a partner since 2000. Mr. Coleman was rated one of South Florida's top lawyers in the 2006 and 2007 South Florida Legal Guide and is listed as one of the top two percent of all Florida lawyers by Florida Trend magazine in 2006. In addition to receiving the highest lawyer rating, A-V, from Martindale Hubbell, Mr. Coleman has been admitted to practice before the United States Supreme Court, the Supreme Court of Florida, all Circuit and County Courts within the state and the United States District Court for the Middle and Southern Districts of Florida. He has been actively involved with the Florida legal community, serving as president of the Young Lawyers Division of both the Florida Bar and the Palm Beach County Bar Association. Mr. Coleman served as president of the Palm Beach County Bar Association and at the time was the youngest person to ever serve in that capacity. He also is a member of the House of Delegates for the American Bar Association. Mr. Coleman is currently one of only four elected representatives from the 15th Judicial Circuit ( Palm Beach County ) to serve on the Florida Bar Board of Governors. He is also actively involved in the Supreme Court Commission for Professionalism.