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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 St. Francis Salesian Prep Sharks.

2025 TEAM OUTLOOK

High School: St. Francis Salesian Prep Sharks
Head Coach: Ken Nakagawa 
CIF Section: Central Coast Section
Division: Division 1 (2024)
2024 Record (Playoff Finish):  22-5  (Lost round 1)
Key Players Lost: Trey Silva - Micah Cervantes - Jr Ibarra - Adrian Leon

+ No. Returning Positional Players: 9
+ No. Returning Pitchers: 4
+ Team Strengths: We have a strong offensive presence and will play good defense.

+ Key Players:

Seniors:

+ '25 Nash Horton Pepperdine Commit

+ '25 Javier Fonseca 

+ '25 Evan Dyer

Juniors:

+ Projected Starters: Nash Horton - Evan Dyer
+ Projected Relievers: Nicky Fantl - Javier Fonseca - Max Madigal 

IMPACT UNDERCLASSMEN 

+ '27 Noah Magana

+ '27 Nicky Fantl 

BOTTOM LINE

We lost some key pieces of our 2024 squad that made it the the CIF-CCS D1 playoffs, but with a strong offensive group returning that has the ability to put up runs while also playing solid defense I like the potential on that side of the game. How well we throw the ball on the mound will be key to our potential of making another playoff run. - Coach Nakagawa

PREP BASEBALL CA STAFF’S TAKE

The Sharks will be fronted by the talented Nash Horton who committed to Pepperdine this fall and his nearly .500 in his JR. campaign with 16 extra base hits (tops on 2024 team) and drove in 33 runs (2nd on 2024 team) while both Fantl and and Fonseca will look to build on very strong seasons in 2024. They will have to replace the offensive production of a Sr. who graduated, but they look to have the offensive pieces returning to put up plenty of runs which helped them to a PCAL-Galiban league 2nd place finish. The mound is a slightly different story where all 4 of their best arms are gone to graduation, but if Dyer can take a step forward and a few other arms can rise to the occasion there is no reason this staff can't keep runs down and with the offensive pieces they have compete at the top of the league again in 2025 - Steven Hardesty 

Learn more about California’s 2025 spring season below:

+ Follow St. Francis Salesian Prep on X: @st.francis_baseball
+ Find more team previews on the Prep Baseball California Season Previews homepage

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Upcoming Events

Showcase	State	Date	Location
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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