September 3, 2025 | Editor: Brian French

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Our Season starts in September, and we would like to give a big thank you to our Partners and their support of Youth Baseball Midwest. We started the last September with our weekly podcast's that grew from 3 to 5 when we added Baseball 101 with Darin Cissell. We are also excited to have Brett Graves bringing his Keep Klimbing podcast to Youth Baseball Midwest.

The Hitting Zone Podcast with Mitch Thomas, Baseball Mom's with Jen Mayberry, and Baseball Talk hosted by yours truly Brian French with our great contributors Kevin Moulder, Dave Wiggins, and Dave Penning. We also added another segment with contributor Diego Solares of Scout Connect to talk about Illinois baseball.

We had a great year presenting our Player spotlights and also talking with all the coaches from around the state of Missouri and Illinois. Our Winter Workout Tour was a great success as we added to our list of clubs that we have visited throughout the state. The Pike County Rookies facility was fantastic, north of St Charles County off of Hwy 61. We also had a great trip to Springfield, MO to visit with the Willard Tigers and Nixa Baseball youth clubs.

We also added our very first American Legion Baseball club from here in St. Peters, MO, Post 313 with Rick Reno and Andy Cook. We have developed a great relationship with Missouri American Legion Baseball over the years, and we look forward to their continued growth.

Keep up with youth baseball by watching YBMcast.

We live streamed 80 baseball games in 5 months, which is about 4 games per week between high school, Game 7 Baseball, the PCDL, and American Legion. From out GAC Game of the Week to our Missouri Showcase games, along with the StL Suburban Conference games, high school players put on a show this season and we have video to prove it.

Game 7 Baseball and Youth Baseball Midwest just finished the 8th year of our partnership dating back to the 2017 World Series held at Chesterfield A.A. Dave Penning and Dave Schmidt have been great supporters of YBM over the years and we have enjoyed being at the ballpark talking with all the young players. Each year we see players graduating and heading off to college who we saw play of the fields of Game 7 Baseball Tournaments.

American Legion Baseball is back! Getting stronger each year with many very talented teams across the state. This season the Moberly Sixers won the 19U State Championship and played in the Mid-South Regional tournament with a chance to advance to the ALB W. S. Washington Post 218 played host out at Ronsick Park and they put on a show! Kent Hendrickson, Joe Buehler and Kent Getsee and all the rest of the folks associated with Post 218 were great hosts and we enjoyed live streaming the event and they made us feel like we were in the big time!

As we head into the off-season and we begin the new "year" for YBM and our host of podcasters, we hope you will join in watch and supporting our channel.

We will be launching our YBM Club membership soon as we open up with great opportunities from our Partners and new Exclusive content. This membership revenue will help us continue to grow so we can bring you all these events each and every year as we strive to be, "THE MOST COMPRHENSIVE YOUTH BASEBALL TALK IN THE MIDWEST!"

Thank you for your continued support, Brian French, Producer of YBM and Managing Partner of Red Earth Productions LLC.