Prep Baseball Report

2025 High School Previews: Archbishop Mitty Monarchs


Steven Hardesty
Assistant Scouting Director

 

  

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The 2025 California high school baseball season is quickly approaching and, as usual, excitement is abound throughout the state. Players and coaches have been working in preparation for the upcoming season and, as is the case each year, there are some very talented players and teams across California.

Teams across the state have goals and aspirations to finish their seasons in their respective CIF Section Championship Game, but there is plenty of work to be done before that becomes reality. We hope to familiarize our readers with many of the teams across the state as we preview these individual programs across California. We will take you right up to first pitch this season with these team previews, eventually releasing our Preseason Power 25 rankings.

Please keep checking back throughout the season as we will be your one-stop shop for everything related to high school baseball across California. Each week we will be releasing our Power 25, Players of the Week, Diamond Notes, podcasts, and much more.

Our 2025 preseason coverage continues today with a preview of the Archbishop Mitty Monarchs.


2025 TEAM OUTLOOK

High School: Archbishop Mitty Monarchs
Head Coach: Brian Yocke
CIF Section:  Central Coast
Division: Division 1
2024 Record (Playoff Finish): 20-13-1 (CCS Championship, Nor-Cal Runner Up)
Key Players Lost:  Luka Pintar, Makoa Sniffen, Tanner Kern, Nico Rodriguez, Andrew Sauceda

+ No. Returning Positional Starters: 10
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 5
+ Team Strengths: 

ROSTER PREVIEW

+ Key Players:

Seniors:

+ '25 SS/2B Waylon Walsh Santa Clara Commit

+ '25 Carson Seeger 

+ '25 Cooper Salter

+ '25 1B/RHP Grayson Munoz

Juniors:

+ '26 SS/2B Felix Chang

+ '26 RHP Joseph Engin

+ Projected Starters: N/A
+ Projected Relievers: N/A

IMPACT UNDERCLASSMEN

+ '27 Derek Allen 1B/RHP

+ '27 C Ethan Chase

BOTTOM LINE

We lost some key pieces of our 2024 team that was able to win the CCS-D1 title and made it to the finals of the North Region tournament, but with some talented returners on the position player side and the mound we are poised to put together another strong season in 2025. - Coach Yocke

PREP BASEBALL CA STAFF’S TAKE

With several key players departing from their title team in 2024 they Monarchs are going to lean heavily on the Waylon Walsh the Santa Clara commit SS and Carson Seeger on the mound to guide the team through an ultra competitive WCAL schedule. The will be on the younger side in 2025, but the players stepping into key roles have talent and if they can perform quickly look for the Monarchs to be there in the end again. - Hank LoForte NorCal Scouting Director

Learn more about California’s 2025 spring season below:

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Upcoming Events

Showcase State Date Location
Orange County Preseason ID CA 01/02/25 JSerra
San Diego Preseason All State (Invite Only) CA 01/04/25 Maranatha Christian High School
Central California Preseason All State (Invite Only) CA 01/05/25 Antelope Valley College
Central California Preseason ID CA 01/12/25 Ventura College
North Bay Preseason ID CA 01/25/25 Novato High School
Northern California Preseason All State (Invite Only) CA 01/26/25 Ohlone College
East Bay Preseason ID CA 02/01/25 Pittsburg High School

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