The 2025 MLB Draft is in the books, and while we wait to see who signs and who heads to or back to school, let’s check out some draft hauls.
The rankings and analysis below are based on data, utilize Joe Doyle’s Final Draft Board and a consensus of public boards as a guideline, plus intelligence from industry personnel.
Haul rankings are presumptuous at this stage, with reasonable expectations that key selections will sign.
NOTE: These aren’t farm system rankings or even an attempt at ranking the team’s performance in the draft, simply the collection of talent added to each club.
DOYLE: 2026 Top 100 College | 2026 Top 100 High School
5. New York Yankees
The Yankees managed just a single consensus Top 75 pick and two Top 150 talents. Maybe they’re smarter than literally everyone else, but I doubt it.
Without a second-round pick due to signing Max Fried (which also meant forfeiting the awarding of a comp pick for losing Juan Soto), as well as the 10-pick penalty for exceeding the Competitive Balance Tax threshold for the second straight season, New York was already set up for a bit of a light haul.
They did go for some upside in Rounds 6-8, a potential class-defining set of selections.
Best Pick: Dax Kilby, SS — Newnan High School (Ga.), Round 1, No. 39 overall.
The industry was split on Kilby. A few had him a Top 25 player, others saw him as a late second. But when your top pick is at 39, upside is never a bad play, and while Kilby isn’t likely to stay at shortstop, there’s some speed and power and speed, and he could make it work at second base.
First to MLB:Â Pico Kohn, LHP — Mississippi State, Round 4, No. 134 overall
Kohn throws strikes with four offerings, including a 91-94 mph fastball that plays up via deception and a low 3/4 slot. His seldom-used curveball shows promise with some depth and two-plane break, and his changeup — also used around 5% of the time — has a chance to miss bats if he commits to it.
Kohn threw plenty of strikes and avoided the base on balls pretty well in the SEC (7.7%). He’ll likely get a chance to slip through the lower minors in a flash, particularly considering he’ll be 23 in October after spending four injury-riddled seasons in college, and his heater carries so much inherent value.
Sleeper:Â Mac Heuer, RHP — Texas Tech
Heuer is a 6-foot-5, 265-pound beast who carries fastball projection into pro ball as a just-turned-21-year-old sophomore eligible.
He was up to 98 mph in 2025, but sat mostly 93-96 with more than a third of his heaters hitting 95 or better. Heuer’s 83-85 mph sweeping slider is average and projects comfortably above average and beyond.
Heuer’s changeup has promise (10% usage, 47% whiff) but at present its success is based more on deception and velocity differential than movement.
4. Toronto Blue Jays
The Jays surrendered their second-round pick when they signed Anthony Santander. They landed one of the most intriguing prep players in the class in SS JoJo Parker at No. 8 overall but did not add another consensus Top 100.
Toronto did net four players generally ranked between 100 and 150, and a few carry upside into the range of second-round talents. Two of them came after Round 10.
Best Pick: JoJo Parker, SS — Purvis High School (Miss..), Round 1, No. 8 overall
The left-handed hitting Parker projects to hit, play shortstop long-term, and the chances he develops at least average power appear pretty good.
The power is where some scouts differentiate Parker from a few other prep shortstops that went in the next six picks (Steele Hall, Billy Carlson, Daniel Pearce), with some putting future 60 grades on it.
First to MLB:Â Dylan Watts, RHP — Auburn, Round 7, No. 202 overall
Watts has prototypical size and could be given a chance to start in pro ball, but as a three-pitch reliever up to 99 mph, he figures to knife through the lower minors and put himself on the 26-man map in short order.
His slider is a short-breaking, mid-80s dart he commands well away from right-handed batters and down and in to lefties.
Sleeper: Micah Bucknam, RHP — Dallas Baptist, Round 4, No. 112 overall
Bucknam is a four-pitch starter with a chance at three plus pitches, led by a 65-grade slider (85-88 mph, 49% whiff) and low-80s curveball (52% whiff). His changeup flashes and he’ll need it in pro ball.
It’s control over command, putting pressure on the secondaries a bit, but he’ll touch 96 as a starter, and in relief could sit there with two distinct breakers to generate strikeouts.
3. Boston Red Sox
The Red Sox had a terrific draft and one can argue it’s as good or better than the Rays.
Boston made 21 picks — all from the college ranks — and brought in three Top 60 players, four Top 80, and six Top 250. , including their CB-A selection and compensation pick.
Eight of their first 10 were arms, in a targeted effort to improve the pitching depth in the organization.
Best Pick: Anthony Eyanson, RHP — LSU, Round 3, No. 87 overall
Eyanson is a strike-throwing monster with command of four pitches and both breaking balls project to generate swing-and-miss. He’s up to 96-97 mph, but pitches comfortably at 92-95. It’s a high arm slot and release, but he goes east-west with the slider to balance the north-south attack with everything else.
It’s a No. 3 profile and…
First to MLB: Eyanson
Eyanson should skate through the lower minors and have little problem in Double-A, putting him on the map for as early as late 2026, and suggesting 2027 is a good bet considering innings management.
Sleeper:Â Leighton Finley, RHP — Georgia, Round 6, No. 178 overall
Finley sits 92-95 and has been up to 97 with the fastball, finding the zone and missing bats with the pitch. His 82-85 mph slider projects toward plus (41% whiff), and he ups the usage on his changeup to around 20% versus lefties.
At 6-foot-5 and 225 pounds, Finley can pitch downhill, but his short-arm 3/4 slot helps him create a flat-angle approach and dominate with deception, velocity, and carry at the top rail.
2. Tampa Bay Rays
Tampa used their extra picks (Competitive Balance A, Supplemental 2) to net not just two of the Top 20, but five of the Top 100.
That group includes four prep hitters in their first five picks, leading to a run of college arms on Day 2 that reached 14 of 17 selections.
Best Pick: Brendan Summerhill, OF — Arizona, Round CB-A, No. 42 overall
Summerhill was generally considered a Top 25 player despite contact quality inconsistencies this season, and while he may not be the quick study he looked like entering the year he also improved his performance versus elite velocity.
The power may take some time, however, and center field may be in play.
First to MLB: Dominic Fritton, LHP — North Carolina State, Round 4, No. 117 overall
This could also be sixth-round pick Aidan Haugh, who has two swing-and-miss secondaries. Fritton is a four-pitch lefty, up to 96 mph, and both the slider and changeup project to miss some bats.
Fritton oddly had some issues with left-handed batters this season, but he hides the ball well and his athleticism should allow for more consistent strikes.
Sleeper: Aidan Cremarosa, RHP — Fresno State, Round 8, No. 237 overall
Cremarosa doesn’t throw hard (88-91, touching 93), but he generated big swing-and-miss with the heater anyway, thanks to a short-arm release, and his curveball (47%), slider (39%), and changeup (46%) followed suit. The curveball is a big, 12-6 breaker with depth, but he’ll probably have to throw it a little firmer to keep it in the arsenal.
There’s projection in his 6-foot-3 frame, and he commands his fastball at plus levels.
1. Baltimore Orioles
The Orioles had two comp picks and two competitive balance picks — one via the trade that sent Bryan Baker to the Tampa Bay Rays — and the club made it all count.
In the end, it’s four Top 40 picks, six Top 100, and eight Top 150 making up one of the elite hauls in any division.
Baltimore added college bats, catching, and a pair of college arms on Day 1, and mixed in an athletic centerfielder in Slater de Brun.
Best Pick: Wehiwa Aloy, SS — Arkansas, Round 1C, No. 31 overall
Aloy has every tool to hit and defend at impact level in the big leagues, but lasted until 31 due to contact concerns. There’s power and speed to spare, and he hits velocity– .300/.379/.620 versus 93 mph or better) — but the chase and whiff rates are high.
The fact Aloy is an above-average or better glove and runner, however, and any movement in the right direction with the contact issues gets him into the bigs as an everyday player. More than that and he’s Javier Baez, the good version.
First to MLB:Â Joseph Dzierwa, LHP — Michigan State, Round 2, No. 58 overall
Dzierwa is a towering southpaw at 6-foot-8, pounding the strike zone with a solid-average fastball-changeup combo. He sits just 90-93, but hides the ball well and the pitch shows carry. His deception stems from his setup, where he shows his back to the hitter and uncoils without revealing the ball.
He repeats consistently, and commands the fastball as well as any arm in the class. He didn’t throw many breaking balls, but the 75-78 mph curveball has tremendous depth and two-plane break, and he’s tinkered a bit with a mid-80s slider.
There’s some Chuck Finley here in the projection and heavy changeup usage (Finley threw a splitter), but the chances Dzierwa can zoom to frontline status without a substantial breaking ball aren’t good, so look for that development early.
Sleeper:Â Colin Yeaman, SS — UC Irvine, Round 4, No. 124 overall
Yeaman’s contact, OBP, and all-fields approach bode well for a player without speed or more than present gap power, but there’s room for the pop to get to average. He’s not a shortstop long term, but second is a real possibility.
He’s not as athletic, but Chris Taylor fits as an offensive comp.
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