2025 Amateur Draft

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The 2025 First Year Player Draft will be the 61st Major League Baseball Amateur Draft. It will be held in July, 2025, in Atlanta, GA as part of the 2025 All-Star Game festivities.

As has been the case since 2023, the first overall pick was determined through a lottery held at the winter meetings on December 10, 2024. The Washington Nationals won that contest, leapfrogging past three other teams that had posted a worse record in 2024. Also, in the first concrete result from the anti-tanking policy adopted as part of the latest Collective Bargaining Agreement, the Chicago White Sox were ineligible for a lottery pick and, in spite of posting a new record for most losses by a team since 1900, had to make do with the #9 pick. The Dodgers, Yankees and Mets all saw their top selection move to the start of the second round as punishment for exceeding luxury tax thresholds.

The early favorite to be selected with the First overall pick, at the time of the draft lottery, had a familiar last name: high school infielder Ethan Holliday, son of major leaguer Matt Holliday and brother of Jackson Holliday, drafted first overall in 2022. There was still plenty of time for other candidates to emerge, however.

Draft Order[edit]

First Round[edit]

Pick Team Player Position School (Type) Hometown Notes
1 Washington Nationals
2 Los Angeles Angels
3 Seattle Mariners
4 Colorado Rockies
5 St. Louis Cardinals
6 Pittsburgh Pirates
7 Miami Marlins
8 Toronto Blue Jays
9 Cincinnati Reds
10 Chicago White Sox
11 Athletics
12 Texas Rangers
13 San Francisco Giants
14 Tampa Bay Rays
15 Boston Red Sox
16 Minnesota Twins
17 Chicago Cubs
18 Arizona Diamondbacks
19 Baltimore Orioles
20 Milwaukee Brewers
21 Houston Astros
22 Atlanta Braves
23 Kansas City Royals
24 Detroit Tigers
25 San Diego Padres
26 Philadelphia Phillies
27 Cleveland Guardians

Prospect Promotion Incentive Picks[edit]

Pick Team Player Position School (Type) Hometown Notes
28 Kansas City Royals Received for Bobby Witt Jr. finishing 2nd in the MVP Award

Compensation Picks[edit]

Pick Team Player Position School (Type) Hometown Notes
29 Milwaukee Brewers Compensation for Willie Adames leaving as a free agent

Competitive Balance Round A[edit]

Pick Team Player Position School (Type) Hometown Notes
30 Milwaukee Brewers
31 Detroit Tigers
32 Seattle Mariners
33 Minnesota Twins
34 Tampa Bay Rays
35 Cincinnati Reds
36 Tampa Bay Rays acquired from Athletics in Jeffrey Springs trade
37 Miami Marlins

Other Sports Selections[edit]

Notes[edit]

Further Reading[edit]

  • Jonathan Mayo: "New: Top 100 Draft prospects for '25", mlb.com, December 5, 2024. [1]
  • Jonathan Mayo: "Nats win Lottery, get No. 1 pick in 2025; M's, Cards make big moves up board", mlb.com, December 10, 2024. [2]

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