2025 Spring Team Preview: North Royalton Bears
February 13, 2025
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With 2024 now in the past, Prep Baseball Ohio is eagerly anticipating bringing the Buckeye state the best high school coverage that can be found anywhere in 2025. Starting in February, we began releasing team previews for squads across the state. Ahead, we will have Preseason All-State Teams as well as the Preseason State Rankings coming your way.
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2025 Spring Team Preview: North Royalton Bears
Team Name: North Royalton Bears
Head Coach: Matt Stricker
Division: II
2024 Record: 24-6
2024 Tourney Finish: District Finals loss to Avon
Returning Starters/Pitchers: 3/4
Coach Outlook: "I am extremely excited to get started this season with our newly formed roster. We graduated quite a bit last year, but we have young guys that are hungry to get their opportunity to play at the Varsity Level. We have some returning letter winners that will help lead this team to where we need to be when we start playing games. As always the players and coaches are excited to make a run at the Conference and make a run in the State Tournament."
2025 Team Strengths:
- It is too early to say exactly what our strengths are going to be, but I feel that we will be a very balanced team in all phases of the game with pitching being a strong suit.
Top Returning Players:
- Ben Baracz RHP/SS/3B
- Antonio Escano RHP/3B/OF
- Jake Paluczak RHP/1B/OF
- Grady Baugh OF (IR Last Year)
- Joe Kinney RHP
Class of 2025 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Ben Baracz
- Grady Baugh
- Jake Paluczak
Class of 2026 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Antonio Escano
- Cameron Saul
- Jackson Cavanaugh
- Andrew Kortan
Class of 2027 Prospects To Keep Eye On:
- Julian Tavarez
A Look Back At The 2024 Season:
To view the 2024 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2024 Ohio Spring HS Report, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
- State Final Four Roundup
- 11th Annual OHSAA Final Four All-Tournament Team
- State Final Four Scout Blog
To View the 2024 PBR All-State Teams, click here.
To view the 2024 Preseason All-State Teams, click here.
To view the Weekly Team Rankings, click below:
To view the 2024 Ohio Spring Scout Blog, click here.
A Look Back At The 2023 Season:
To view the 2023 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2023 Ohio Spring HS Report, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
- State Final Four Roundup
- 10th Annual OHSAA Final Four All-Tournament Team
- State Final Four Scout Blog
To View the 2023 PBR All-State Teams click below:
- Elite 25
- Division I
- Division II
- Division III
- Division IV
- Regional Teams
- Class of 2023 Team
- Class of 2024 Team
- Class of 2025 Team
- Class of 2026 Team
To view the 2023 Preseason All-State Teams, click below:
To view the Weekly Team Rankings, click below:
To view the 2023 Ohio Spring Scout Blog, click here.
A Look Back At The 2022 Season:
To view the 2022 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2022 Ohio Spring HS Report, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To View the 2022 PBR All-State Teams click below:
To view the 2022 Preseason All-State Teams, click below:
To view the Weekly Team Rankings, click below:
To view the 2022 Ohio Spring Scout Blog, click here.
A Look Back At The 2021 Season:
To view the 2021 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2021 Ohio Spring HS Report, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To View the 2021 PBR All-State Teams click below:
To view the 2021 Preseason All-State Teams, click below:
To view the Weekly Team Rankings, click below:
To view the 2021 Ohio Spring Scout Blog, click below:
- March 27-April 4 | April 5-11 | April 12-18 | April 19-25 | April 26-May 2 | May 3-May 9 | May 10-16 | May 17-23 | May 24-31
A Look Back At What Would've Been The 2020 Season:
To view each of the parts to the No 'Last Dance' Series, click below:
To view the 2020 Team Previews, click here.
To view the 2020 Preseason All-State Teams, click here.
To view the 2020 Virtual Ohio High School State Tournament/Preseason Team Rankings, click here.
A Look Back At The Last Decade:
To view the Ohio High School All-Decade Team 2010-2019, click here.
A Look Back At The 2019 Season:
To view the 2019 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To view the 2019 All-State Teams, click below.
To view the 2019 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.
A Look Back At The 2018 Season:
To view the 2018 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
To view the 2018 All-State Teams, click below.
To view the 2018 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.
A Look Back At The 2017 Season:
To view the 2017 Team Previews, click here.
To view the OHSAA Baseball Tournament Roundup, click below.
- State Final Four Roundup
- State Final Four Scouting Notebook
- News, notes and numbers from each of the top prospects at state
- ABC's of the OHSAA State Tournament
- 6th Annual Top 22 All-Tournament Team
To view the 2017 All-State Teams, click below.
To view the 2017 Preseason All-State Teams, click below.