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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]
Prospect Promotion Incentive Picks[edit]
Compensation Picks[edit]
Competitive Balance Round A[edit]
Other Sports Selections[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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