2025 MSHSAA Team Preview: Holt Indians
March 11, 2025
The Missouri high school baseball season kicks off on Mar. 20, opening day for regular season action under MSHSAA regulations. Leading up to opening day, we’ll be publishing our team previews ahead of the 2025 spring season, touching on programs spanning all state classifications, counting down to the official Prep Baseball Missouri Preseason Power 25 Rankings.
Perennially, we’ve submitted a preseason questionnaire to high school head coaches across the entire state. Their responses have been flooding in and we’re using the detailed insight they’ve provided in our team-by-team preseason analysis.
Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today.
Head Coach: Trey Pirkle-HC, Rick Anselm-AC (4 years)
Classification: 5A
2024 Record (Finish): 10-23
2025 SEASON OUTLOOK
No. of Returning Position Players: 5
No. of Returning Pitchers: 4
Top Returners:
- P Aidan Pettit (2025; East Central) - 6’5”, 180, L/L
- P/OF Jack Cartwright (2025) - 6’4", 210, L/R
- INF Caleb Evans (2025) - 6’2”, 235, R/R
Top Newcomers:
- INF Easton Winans (2026) - 6’0", 185, R/R
- INF Beckett House (2026) - 6’1”, 170, R/R
- INF Kohen House (2026) - 5’10", R/R
Key Players Lost:
- Chase Lasater (Maryville)
- Kyle Edgar
- Dalton Hosack (SIUE)
- Ben Kolb
- Carson Houran
- Gavin Poindexter (Moberly Area CC)
Coach’s Insight: “2025 team strengths will be pitching and depth. I believe we will have a number of guys who can command the zone with multiple pitches and will be able to get outs. Team Defense will also take a step up as the gloves have improved. We will be a scrappy offensive team, but I believe we will show spurts of power throughout the season with the goal of getting hot at the right time. Inexperience [will be a weakness]. We graduated 14 seniors last year, so there are a lot of fresh faces. I believe this group to be hungry and they will get up to speed early on. ” – Trey Pirkle, head coach
Find more information on the 2025 Holt program below:
+ Follow them on X: @Holt_IndiansBSB
+ Visit Prep Baseball Missouri’s 2025 MSHSAA Team Previews page to learn more.
+ If you are a high school coach and didn’t receive our questionnaire, please click HERE to fill out the form