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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 Santiago Sharks.

2025 TEAM OUTLOOK

High School: Santiago Sharks
Head Coach: Ty De Trinidad
CIF Section: Southern Section
Division: 1 (2024)
2024 Record (Playoff Finish):  16-13 (Lost in the first round CIF-SS D1 playoffs to Huntington Beach)
Key Players Lost: Chris Ramirez, Logan Clear, Barret Ronson, Tyler Blade, Austin Gamell

+ No. Returning Positional Players: 5
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 2
+ Team Strengths: Our pitching will be our primary strength

ROSTER PREVIEW

+ Key Players:

Seniors:

+ '25 SS Mario Cuadros

+ '25 CF Owen Earle 

+ '25 RHP Cooper Berger 

Juniors:

+ '26 RHP Thomas Padilla

+ Projected Starters: Cooper Berger, Thomas Padilla, and Ben Lewis
+ Projected Relievers: Seth Coria, Ethan Morton, Striker Pence  and Julian Sais 

IMPACT UNDERCLASSMEN

+ '28 RHP/INF Striker Pence

+ '27 INF Ben Rausch 

+ '27 RHP Ben Lewis

BOTTOM LINE

"Replacing some key pieces on the offensive side will be paramount to success in the 2025 season after reaching the first round of the CIF-SS D1 playoffs in 2024. We have the arms on the front end with our trio of potential starters and in the back end with good arms in the bullpen that makes our staff the biggest strength heading into 2025. If our lineup performs at a high level to go along with that pitching staff we should be a solid club again."  - Coach De Trinidad

PREP BASEBALL CA STAFF’S TAKE

"Pitching depth is paramount if you're going to compete in the Big VIII Conference, and it appears, at least on paper, that the Sharks have the arms to do just that in the spring. With a frontline of veteran arms at the top of the rotation, Santiago has some nice developing arms in the underclasses that should compliment the veterans nicely. Defensively, the Sharks will be breaking in a new shortstop and the offense will need to sort it itself out, but with veteran arms, and a new pitching coach, Santiago should be in every game they play." - Les Lukach

Learn more about California’s 2025 spring season below:

+ Follow Santiago on X: @sharksbasebal
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Upcoming Events

Showcase	State	Date	Location
North Bay Preseason ID	CA	01/25/25	Novato High School
Inland Empire Preseason ID	CA	01/26/25	Ganesha High School
East Bay Preseason ID	CA	02/01/25	Pittsburg High School
Sacramento Preseason ID	CA	02/09/25	McBean Park
Orange County Rising Stars ID	CA	03/02/25	Mater Dei High School
Inland Empire Rising Stars ID	CA	03/30/25	Corona High School
Los Angeles Rising Stars ID	CA	04/27/25	O'Malley Field

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