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.

 

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2025 SEASON OUTLOOK

No. of Returning Position Players: 6
No. of Returning Pitchers: 7

Top Returners:

• OF Wyatt Vincent (2025; Missouri State) - 5’10, 185, R/R
  • Wyatt is a 4 year starter who was an all state OF last year, he has a chance to break several of our school records a a couple state records.
• SS Caeden Cloud (2025; Kentucky) - 6’, 190, R/R
  • Caeden is a 4 year starter for us, 3 at SS.
• RHP Colin Kelley (2025; Maryville) - 5’9, 170
  • Colin is a 3 year starter who was all state as a junior
• RHP Jackson Gamble (2025; Missouri Southern) - 6’3, 210, R/R
  • Jackson is a 3 year starter for us who we expect to have a big year for us
• OF Adam McKnight (2027) - 6’4, 190, R/R
  • Adam had a big year for us as a freshman, all conference player, we expect Adam to have a big year for us in the middle of our lineup.
    

Top Newcomers:

• C Rowan Johnson (2027) - 5’10, 205, R/R
  • Rowan is a very talented catcher and hitter who we expect to catch a lot of innings for us this year.
• C Tyler Yonkers (2026) - 5’9, 165, R/R
  • Tyler is a bulldog who plays the game extremely hard and will compete for a lot of innings behind the plate.

Key Players Lost:

• Rylan Michel (Crowder)
• Jack Edwards (Drury)
• Broden Mabe (College of the Ozarks)
• Gehrig Eoff
• Nate Uber

Coach’s Insight: “We will have a very experienced team, with several hitters returning and 4 starters on the mound. We should have a good mix of team speed with some power at the plate. We will have 2 catchers behind the plate who have yet to catch a varsity inning. But we have several talented catchers who will do a good job finning these roles.” – Logan Hughes, head coach

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Find more information on the 2025 Nixa program below:

+ Follow them on X: @nixabaseball
+ 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

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