2025 Official Draft Signings Thread

[JDBrewCrew]

Looks like that's it. 

 

https://www.mlb.com/brewers/roster/transactions

[MilwaukeeBeers]

1 minute ago, liveforoctober said:

I'm not sure that makes sense. If both Cadiz and Lauridsen told MKE they were not going to sign no matter the money we offered ... should we have distributed the rest to the guys who already signed to an agreed upon number just so we could say we spent it all?

You have a pretty good idea what your pick is gonna sign for before you make said pick. So no this does not make sense. 

[wiguy94]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

Wow and look at the success of the 2023. That should continue to be the strategy. Being irritated that they didn’t spend 800+k is not dramatic. When the whole point of this strategy is to accumulate as much talent as possible and you are reaching down the board to afford as much as possible. The 5% overage should be used by a team that refuses to play in ML FA. Period end of story.

I mean that's clearly the strategy but if the players turn down the money what can you do? It's a risky strategy and you probably can't expect it to work out as perfectly as it did in 2023 every single year.

[narwhalattack]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

You have a pretty good idea what your pick is gonna sign for before you make said pick. So no this does not make sense. 

I mean, if teams had any degree of certainty these guys were signable, they’d have been taken earlier. When you pick someone after Round 10, you’re basically taking a flier on a lottery ticket and hope that you’re able to nab some of them.

[liveforoctober]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

You have a pretty good idea what your pick is gonna sign for before you make said pick. So no this does not make sense. 

How long were you a scout?

[SF70]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

Wow and look at the success of the 2023. That should continue to be the strategy. Being irritated that they didn’t spend 800+k is not dramatic. When the whole point of this strategy is to accumulate as much talent as possible and you are reaching down the board to afford as much as possible. The 5% overage should be used by a team that refuses to play in ML FA. Period end of story.

Read Liveforoctober’s post. Explanation pretty clear.

[Waunakee]

Brewers drafted 7 guys born in 2007 and signed them all.  That is zigging when everybody is zagging

[Brewer77]

It’s a bit of a bummer they didn’t grab at least one of the two California kids left. But the collection of high school arms is an impressive group

[Team Canada]

1 minute ago, Waunakee said:

Brewers drafted 7 guys born in 2007 and signed them all.  That is zigging when everybody is zagging

Welcome!

[Jake McKibbin]

Honestly, regardless of cash, if you'd told me they got Roupe, Bentley and Holden from that class, we'd have been stoked.

Then add Rylan Mills in there, and CJ Hughes, there's a lot of talent.

[Joseph Zarr]

Wait. The Crew signed all but, what, 4-5 draft picks? And people are upset?!?!

I really wanted Cadiz. Nothing you can do, however, when a kid wants to pursue their collegiate dream. I wish them all great luck.

[MilwaukeeBeers]

5 minutes ago, narwhalattack said:

I mean, if teams had any degree of certainty these guys were signable, they’d have been taken earlier. When you pick someone after Round 10, you’re basically taking a flier on a lottery ticket and hope that you’re able to nab some of them.

I’m talking about reaching down the board for the first couple picks. Almost every pick in rounds 1-10 were underslot besides Flores. You don’t think they knew that was gonna be the case? So you are taking a lower quality or sure thing of talent to save later on the pool. Not using that seems like a failure to maximize the strategy. Maybe I’m not explaining this well. 

[MilwaukeeBeers]

8 minutes ago, liveforoctober said:

How long were you a scout?

How long have you been a sycophant?

[sveumrules]

1 minute ago, Waunakee said:

Brewers drafted 7 guys born in 2007 and signed them all.  That is zigging when everybody is zagging

Setting themselves up for another year with the youngest pitchers in the ACL...

2021
Brewers Gold 19.2
Brewers Blue 19.9
Rangers 19.9

2022
Brewers Blue 19.8
Brewers Gold 19.9
Angels 20.3

2023
Mariners 20.6
Brewers 20.7
DBacks Red 20.7

2024
Brewers 19.9
Dodgers 20.2
Guardians 20.3

2025
Brewers 19.3
Angels 20.6
DBacks 20.7
 

[StearnsFTW]

Happy overall.

Would've loved one of Lauridsen or Underwood, but they got both the late guys, so I'm good.

 

5 HS arms again.  Yowza.

[MilwaukeeBeers]

4 minutes ago, Jake McKibbin said:

Honestly, regardless of cash, if you'd told me they got Roupe, Bentley and Holden from that class, we'd have been stoked.

Then add Rylan Mills in there, and CJ Hughes, there's a lot of talent.

I’m super pleased with the injection of young pitching talent. I can’t help but be disappointed in not using the pool to its full potential. Don’t think that’s an outrageous take. 

[liveforoctober]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

How long have you been a sycophant?

So the majority here are asking questions trying to piece together how it went down and you are making statements, telling us how it works. So I assume you either have inside industry knowledge ... or you just spill irrational confidence. I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt and asking how you acquired such knowledge.

You are telling me there isn't a chance that Cadiz told MKE "I'm not signing for less than $1.2 mil ..." and the Brewers said "we think we have about $750k left for you" ... but the Brewers knew their $400k guy was 50/50 so there was a chance they could get close to Cadiz' ask ... so they pulled the trigger on the pick in case they could swing it after all? That isn't possible? Then they signed the $400k guy so Cadiz was now out of play?

I'm listening and ready to learn more from you! 

[JCREW]

1 minute ago, MilwaukeeBeers said:

I’m super pleased with the injection of young pitching talent. I can’t help but be disappointed in not using the pool to its full potential. Don’t think that’s an outrageous take. 

Definitely not outrageous to want to use that $800K+ of overage. 

When everyone involved wants to hang on to a little bit of bargaining leverage, I can understand that teams have to hedge their plans at least a little bit. 

In a year when one of their picks was a comp for Levonas not signing, meaning they wouldn't get anything back if they failed to sign that guy, I'm content with getting what we got. 

[umphrey]

Yeah not using the bonus pool is a bit of a fail. Overall still a nice draft, better than 2024. 

[CheeseheadInQC]

Was hoping for 6 of the 11-20 prep/JUCO guys, so mildly disappointed. Also, is it certain none of the younger UDFA got enough to eat into the bonus pool? Maybe unlikely, but it has happened.

[wibadgers23]

Man I really thought we were getting Cadiz.  Other than that, I'm pretty stoked about this draft class.

[sfl2hnq17]

Unless there’s a typo, we didn’t have the 800k from Fischer’s undershot?

[Jake McKibbin]

10 minutes ago, CheeseheadInQC said:

Was hoping for 6 of the 11-20 prep/JUCO guys, so mildly disappointed. Also, is it certain none of the younger UDFA got enough to eat into the bonus pool? Maybe unlikely, but it has happened.

Just came here to note the same. I think I saw the Dodgers spent 600k on a UDFA (maybe it was ~400k, not totally sure, but a large sum) so very possible 

[biedergb]

The one I am more surprised by is Coil. A left reliever going back for senior year turning down $150K (or so), wow. I was hoping he would be a great relief arm that could fly up, but we will see.

Lauridsen and Cadiz I had written off early, but was hoping for when Underwood did not sign. But even in the BF.net podcast Spencer didn't even get into Bentley and Holden since we were all convinced they were not going to sign. Once again... baseball ... you think you know, but all you know is that you don't know 🙃

My first reaction was we would get 4-5 of the "day 3" picks (including the "shoe in" Coil). But we got what 5 high upside HS picks signed, and had money left over to make a last minute pitch to someone. Obviously the draws of college, or maybe being a top 50-75 pick in 2-3 years from now was too strong a draw for these kids, and they are kids. My kids don't play sports (I mean they do, but not at THIS level), and the draw of college is big, and I live in a college town.  You are only 18-21 once in your life, and you get the rest of your life to be an adult... OK yikes... I'm way off track here. Let me stop ranting....

I think the Brewers did so well to get so many young kids to sign and with their track history of development particularly with pitchers this is a group of several young arms to add to what most analysts realize is a very deep pool.  not all will develop, and injuries happen, so you do best by getting quality AND quantity and that is exactly what the organization just did.

[Jake McKibbin]

Also that's now two consecutive years the Brewers have failed to sign seniors taken in rounds 11-20 after Caedmon Parker in 2024