Brewer Fanatic 2025 Consensus MLB Draft Board and Day One Live Stream

[Jamie Cameron]

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Draft week is finally here! We’ll have a ton of coverage for you here at Brewer Fanatic. Here are a few important details to get you oriented to our coverage.

Despite making the playoffs in 2024, the Brewers are well-positioned in the 2025 MLB Draft. They have the 10th-largest bonus pool overall, at $13,138,100. This is a function of several factors. They receive a compensation pick at 32nd overall for the free-agent departure of Willy Adames. They received an additional compensation pick at 68th overall for failing to sign Chris Levonas in 2024. The Brewers would have also had an additional pick in Comp Round A, but traded that pick (33rd overall) to the Red Sox as part of the Quinn Priester deal.

The Brewers top 100 picks and slot values are as follows:

• Slot value for pick 20: $4,268,200
• Slot value for pick 32: $2,970,900
• Slot value for pick 59: $1,560,200
• Slot value for pick 68: $1,254,400
• Slot value for pick 94: $826,400

This combination of financial and pick flexibility puts the Brewers in a strong position ahead of a draft class shaping up to be uncertain in terms of top-tier talent, but with plenty of depth through around 75 picks, with prep bats a demographic of strength.

You can find our MLB Draft board here.

This is a project I’ve been working on since February. The rankings are consensus rankings, taken from leveraging all of the major draft boards in the industry. The goal is to eliminate some of the noise in rankings for casual fans looking to get more interested and get to know the class better. You’ll find the logo from the team next to their pick positions in each round, to give folks an idea of the caliber of talent available in a particular portion of the draft.

By Sunday, you’ll find a writeup for 136 player profiles with biographical information, scouting reports, 2025 performance for college players, and potential fits. The board will be updated every day or so until day one.

Additionally, we’ll be live-streaming an episode of Destination: The Show throughout Day One. We’ll get started at 5:30 PM ET/4:30 PM CT. We’ll bring you information on all the picks, live reactions, and team-specific special guests. We hope you’ll join us.

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[Joseph Zarr]

Truly impressive offerings. I have a general understanding of the draft pool and have some personal favorites but I lean heavily on you guys and Spencer during the draft itself. Hoping to find time to tune into the Live stream for the second consecutive season. 

[Sugarrayray]

Thank you Jamie!!!

[jay87shot]

Thanks, for this. I think it will be interesting to see what picks we use to try and save money. I doubt we "reach" as far down in the rankings in the 1st like last year. I would think one of the 1st 2 picks we will look to save big money and 68 the Levonas pick that we lose if we don't sign the pick. It would be really nice to find a guy like Wilken in the 1st who is a high end prospect and will to sign well under slot to help the team.

It would be nice if the draft was a couple weeks earlier, I think the CWS ended June 23 so really like July 1st makes more sense to me. The reason being that rookie ball ends later in July (not sure date) but it doesn't give new signees really any time to get in games in rookie ball. Obviously some of the college draft picks can go to A-ball.

[biedergb]

I do wonder if other teams may copy what the Brewers (and I imagine other teams as well), with slight under-budget early and add some higher value late, and if so do the Brewers zig when they zag and try to maximize the early rounds?  Again it’s trying to predict what others do, so I’m sure they will do the same.

3 hours ago, jay87shot said:

It would be nice if the draft was a couple weeks earlier, I think the CWS ended June 23 so really like July 1st makes more sense to me.

I agree. I dislike that the signees cannot go to ACL since that season ends about when most players sign, get PE, etc.

I am sure they won’t change it since it makes the draft a spectacle during the ASG break.

Plus the nba and nhl drafts are late June and their “off season” trades and free agency is July 1 so trying to compete if you want it to be theatre is a challenge for mlb. For dire hard mlb/milb fans a June 15-20 draft to coincide with the end of the CWS would be cool and then a July 15th sign by date to coincide with ASG, gets players a few weeks in the ACL.

But the league won’t care what a few of us think….

[madbad2000]

3 hours ago, biedergb said:

I do wonder if other teams may copy what the Brewers (and I imagine other teams as well), with slight under-budget early and add some higher value late, and if so do the Brewers zig when they zag and try to maximize the early rounds?  Again it’s trying to predict what others do, so I’m sure they will do the same.

I agree. I dislike that the signees cannot go to ACL since that season ends about when most players sign, get PE, etc.

I am sure they won’t change it since it makes the draft a spectacle during the ASG break.

Plus the nba and nhl drafts are late June and their “off season” trades and free agency is July 1 so trying to compete if you want it to be theatre is a challenge for mlb. For dire hard mlb/milb fans a June 15-20 draft to coincide with the end of the CWS would be cool and then a July 15th sign by date to coincide with ASG, gets players a few weeks in the ACL.

But the league won’t care what a few of us think….

I like the earlier draft in the past so players could get to rookie ball in the same year.  Is the draft during the ASG really a draw?  I would imagine the people that tune in would be the same crowd at any time.  They should be smarter about it and embrace the actual spectacle.  Conduct draft early then have the top draftees show up to the ASG for some type of festivity:  skills comp, hr derby, show off for host team by having the day 1 picks for that team in the stadium and signing.  Just holding the draft is pretty weak IMHO.

[biedergb]

2 hours ago, madbad2000 said:

Is the draft during the ASG really a draw?

That is an excellent question. I thought that was why the moved it - to make a weekend event that comes during the schedule break and also try to package it all and get more eyes.

Whether that happens is a question I don’t know.  But still better than having it way before the college World Series when every team dreads seeing their top draft pick get hurt.