DENVER --  Former Okeechobee Brahman Mason Adams got his first start in Major League Baseball on Aug. 25 for the Colorado Rockies.

Adams struck out five batters when the Rockies faced the Nationals on Aug. 25. Adams held the Nationals to one run over four-plus innings in his major league debut. The Rockies went on to defeat the Nationals 3-1 that night.

“He was poised for his debut,” said Rockies manager Warren Schaeffer of Adams. “I thought he looked totally in control out there. He couldn’t have done it any better.”

After graduating from OHS, where he played four years of varsity baseball, Adams played two years at Florida Southwestern State College. In 2021 he played at Jacksonville University as a redshirt sophomore. Adams started 11 of 15 appearances on the mound in his first year at Jacksonville. In 2022 Adams started all 15 games he appeared in at Jacksonville, leading the team with 90 innings pitched, 108 strikeouts.

Adams was selected by the Chicago White Sox with pick 401 in the 2022 MLB draft.

He was on the verge of making the Majors in 2025, but he injured his flexor tendon during Spring Training and had Tommy John surgery, costing him the entire season. In early August the Rockies acquired Adams in a trade with the Chicago White Sox.