The Oregon State baseball program signed 12 players to letters of intent during the fall period and they will join the program for the 2011 season, coach Pat Casey announced Monday.

The signees are pitchers Dan Child of Rocklin, Calif., Adam Duke of Spanish Fork, Utah and and Scott Schultz of Gig Harbor, Wash.

Also, utility players Cole Baylis of Los Altos, Calif.; Cameron Booser of Milton, Wash.; Brandon Drury of Grants Pass; Ian Kendall of Ashland; Brian Pointer of Reno, and Tom Zarosinski of Lake Oswego; outfielder Drew Vettleson of Kitsap, Wash.; outfielder/pitcher Ben Holmes-Wetzler of Clackamas High; and infielder/catcher Jake Rodriguez of Elk Grove, Calif.

"We signed four or five (utility players) who can play more than one position, and who may also pitch," Casey said. "You have to decide where (they will play).

"You have some players who are very talented in more than one area. We're looking to fill some positions where we can use a position-type guy and we've signed some kids who are capable of doing that.

"Both this year's class, and next year's, we will need players to come in and play immediately due to the numbers lost to the draft."

• Baylis lettered three years for Saint Francis High in the Bay Area. He was 2-0 as a junior and 2-1, 2.10 as a sophomore. He played for the Atlanta Braves and San Francisco Giants scout teams this past summer.

• Booser lettered two years at Fife High in Milton, Wash., and is rated as Washington's No. 4 high school player by Baseball Northwest. He batted .481 with six homers and was

5-1, 1.73 ERA as a junior and earned league MVP honors and a 2A All-State honors.

• Child played for Jesuit High in Sacramento and was a teammate of current Beavers Andrew Susac and Danny Hayes. A 6-foot-5 pitcher, he was 0-0 his junior year, with 10 strikeouts in 6 2/3 innings. He was 2-0, 1.14, and struck out 20 in 121/3 innings in 2008.

• Drury played at Grant Pass and is rated as Oregon's No. 8 high school player by Baseball Northwest. He hit .440 with 10 home runs, 11 doubles and 35 RBI and was first-team all-league and second-team all-state as a junior. He hit .363 with three home runs and six doubles as a sophomore.

• Duke played at Spanish Fork High. A 6-foot-3 right-handed pitcher, he was first-team all-state (5A) and state MVP his junior year after going 7-1 with a 2.46 ERA in 57 innings, with 91 strikeouts and four complete games. He was 18-6 with 163 strikeouts as a freshman and sophomore.

• A 6-1 left-handed outfielder, Holmes played three seasons at Clackamas High and was Baseball Northwest's top high school player after his junior year. Holmes batted .467 with two home runs, 12 doubles and 20 stolen bases, and was 9-1, 0.47 ERA as a junior.

• Kendall was a teammate of current OSU pitcher Sam Gaviglio at Ashland High and is rated as the No. 6 player in the state by Baseball Northwest.

He was the Southern Sky Conference's Player of the Year as an outfielder as a junior, when he hit .478 with six home runs and 28 RBI, and was 6-1, 1.36.

• Pointer played at Galena High in Reno and was a 2009 Area Code Games invitee by Cincinnati and Milwaukee. He had 11 homers and 33 RBIs as a junior.

• Rodriguez is a three-year letterman at Elk Grove High, in the Sacramento Area. He hit .522 as a junior, with five home runs, 10 doubles, four triples, 12 stolen bases and 47 RBI, and was all-conference for the third straight year.

He was the Cal-Hi Sports California Player of the Year in 2009, and also in 2008, when he hit .536 with a home run, four doubles, seven triples and 21 RBI.

• A 6-2 right-handed pitcher, Schultz is a two-year letterman at Gig Harbor High and was team MVP as a junior, when he was 4-5, 1.62, with 56 strikeouts in 472/3 innings.

• Vettleson is an ambidextrous outfielder from Central Kitsap High in Washington. He was the 2009 Gatorade Washington Baseball Player of the Year and is rated as the No. 1 player in Washington by Baseball Northwest and the 25th-best high school prospect for the 2010 MLB draft by Baseball America.

He was 4-2, 1.60 as a junior, with 45 strikeouts an two no-hitters in 38 innings. He also batted .415 with five home runs and 20 RBI as an outfielder.

• A 6-1 right-handed pitcher from Lake Oswego High, Zarosinski was 8-3, 1.02, in 2009, with 76 strikeouts. He was first-team all-league and third-team all-state as a pitcher.