2025 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread

[Jake McKibbin]

Another senior pick, Owens was nails in the CWS this season.

Some command issues with 40 walks in 90.2 innings but also 100 strikeouts.

Can't find a ton of data but seems like a real warrior personality. I'm seeing a trend in this draft on that front

[Jake McKibbin]

3 minutes ago, umphrey said:

Wonder which unsignable HS player we will take a crack at

All of them. We want all of them 😈

[wiguy94]

2 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Another senior pick, Owens was nails in the CWS this season.

Some command issues with 40 walks in 90.2 innings but also 100 strikeouts.

Can't find a ton of data but seems like a real warrior personality. I'm seeing a trend in this draft on that front

Technically not another this year. Owens was the only college senior the Brewers drafted in rounds 1-10. Interesting first 10 rounds for the Brewers. A couple college bats in the middle rounds and only one college senior.

[brewmann04]

Picks in the 15-17 range for the crew 

[izzi]

Hey all you baseball nerds out there, who are the difficult to sign high schoolers that are still available? Seems like we got some extra money to spend.

[wiguy94]

Do we think the Brewers saved any money in rounds 4-10?

[LouisEly]

2 minutes ago, izzi said:

Hey all you baseball nerds out there, who are the difficult to sign high schoolers that are still available? Seems like we got some extra money to spend.

https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2025/undrafted

[snoogans8056]

9 minutes ago, izzi said:

Hey all you baseball nerds out there, who are the difficult to sign high schoolers that are still available? Seems like we got some extra money to spend.

We won’t sign them. It’s gonna be nobodies that sign for 400k-600k. Look at last years draft, something like that.

We have so much depth built up that it doesn’t make sense to add even more late round college players. They’d take up innings and PAs from the kids already in A and A+ and the upside is minimal.

This is where we build up our freshman team of no names who would have turned into top 5 round picks had they made it to college.

[Jake McKibbin]

2 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

Do we think the Brewers saved any money in rounds 4-10?

I'm not totally sure, I'd suggest we may be slightly under in those but that's just a guess given the limited HS picks involved. I'd imagine a substantial amount remaining , potentially in the $1.2m-$1.5m range for rounds 11-20 but I could be wrong.

The pick of Flores may be a little over, but then again there's a lot of college signees there so we possibly would be under in the aggregate

We also have the 5% buffer allowing an additional $650k or so for the Crew to spend at this point.

Should see some fascinating picks!

[wiguy94]

5 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

I'm not totally sure, I'd suggest we may be slightly under in those but that's just a guess given the limited HS picks involved. I'd imagine a substantial amount remaining , potentially in the $1.2m-$1.5m range for rounds 11-20 but I could be wrong.

The pick of Flores may be a little over, but then again there's a lot of college signees there so we possibly would be under in the aggregate

We also have the 5% buffer allowing an additional $650k or so for the Crew to spend at this point.

Should see some fascinating picks!

The thing is with the college picks outside of Owens they were all juniors (or sophomores) so I'm not sure they will be really low bonus guys. I'm sure they will mostly be underslot but not sure it will be enough to counteract Flores who I imagine will be a bit over slot.

[jay87shot]

We could go like last year and draft like 7/8 unknown HS guys and hope to sign 5 or we could draft a couple bigger name guys and hope to draft 1 or 2. The DSL teams don't seem great this year so I would prefer to draft and sign as many HS players as possible. Hopefully a couple position players in that group.

[izzi]

What's the deal with Jack Bauer? Is he unsignable? Team's afraid of the velo spike?

We need our requisite mississippi state pitcher. He would fit the bill nicely.

[Jake McKibbin]

8 minutes ago, wiguy94 said:

The thing is with the college picks outside of Owens they were all juniors (or sophomores) so I'm not sure they will be really low bonus guys. I'm sure they will mostly be underslot but not sure it will be enough to counteract Flores who I imagine will be a bit over slot.

Yeah I was thinking the same, I think the aggregate may put us slightly under slot overall but it won't be a huge margin at all. The 650k plus the first round savings hopefully leave ~2m or so in extras for these rounds

[umphrey]

It's hard to peg how far under slot they are but I guarantee they will take 1 or 2 top 150 players and if they have the money they will throw $1.5m+ at them to try to get a sign. Can't guarantee they sign though. I've seen them win enough times to hope on it. 

[wallus]

I wonder how much communication is done on draft day with these players or are negotiations set in stone?

If a kid slides, do you call him up and offer a number lower than his original demand to see if he'll take it? There doesn't seem to be a lot of time to do things like that.

 

[homer]

23 minutes ago, izzi said:

What's the deal with Jack Bauer? Is he unsignable? Team's afraid of the velo spike?

We need our requisite mississippi state pitcher. He would fit the bill nicely.

A game named "Jack Bauer" needs to be drafted on principle alone.

[balsamlaker]

Typically the Brewers have a level of confidence in their players signing in rounds 11-13 although sometimes it falls through (Riggio) similar to the case with Levonas last year.  Sometimes those players are in the $150K range and sometimes they are the "big swings".  Usually a couple of picks later are ones that are "backup" plans.  These are needed when some of the higher risk picks don't come through earlier.

[Jake McKibbin]

8 minutes ago, wallus said:

I wonder how much communication is done on draft day with these players or are negotiations set in stone?

If a kid slides, do you call him up and offer a number lower than his original demand to see if he'll take it? There doesn't seem to be a lot of time to do things like that.

 

Usually quite a bit. That's exactly what happened with Pratt, who thought he wasn't getting drafted and the Brewers called to offer him a sum and said if they took him in the 6th, would he sign.

So yeah they usually have some agreement or idea of signing bonuses in place before selections, although the Levonas one last year they knew was going to be a tough sign and decided to try anyway

[balsamlaker]

With the first dozen picks, I don't see an obvious big overslot pick, so the Brewers may have close to $2 million to spend still above the $150K's in the next ten picks.

[Jake McKibbin]

Jared Spencer is off the board

His fastball is pretty dead zone but a high IVB changeup (like Tobias Myers) and perfect gyro slider shape were elite offerings.

Blue Jays have a solid one there

[izzi]

On the clock

[Jake McKibbin]

11th round - CJ Hughes, SS

[izzi]

CJ Hughes high school short stop

[duewizard]

11-335 CJ Hughes SS (Junipero Serra HS)

First late round highschooler

[Jake McKibbin]

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- Wiry build

- High end athleticism

- Potential for more power (not a ton of bat speed by my eye, and quite a long swing) but shows a smooth upward swing from the right side (he is a switch hitter)

- Speedy