2025 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread: Boston Red Sox Draft on Talk Sox

[Brandon Glick]

The 2025 MLB Draft will again feature just 20 rounds, but there has been a format change. After downsizing from a two-day, 40-round draft to a three-day, 20-round draft, Major League Baseball has now gone to a two-day, 20-round draft. 

The final 17 rounds (from Rounds 4-20) will happen later today, beginning at 11:30am EST. You can catch it live on MLB Network and MLB.com. The Destination: The Show crew would like to invite you to join us live as we cover the final rounds of the draft There hasn't been a 17-round draft day in a while, but rest assured — there used to be 20-round days, so Talk Sox will have the capacity to cover the duration.

After selecting four players on Sunday during the first day of the draft, the Red Sox will make 17 picks on Monday:

118th overall (Round 4)

148th overall (Round 5)

178th overall (Round 6)
Following Round 5, the Red Sox will pick 13th in every round for the remainder of the draft.
Thus, their draft position is as follows: 178, 208, 238, 268, etc.
 

The Red Sox will have the 13th-largest bonus pool ($12,409,300) in baseball. As a reminder from Baseball America: "In the MLB draft, each pick inside the first 10 rounds comes with assigned slot values. The sum of those slot values creates each team’s bonus pool. From rounds 11-20, players can sign for up to $150,000 without counting towards the bonus pool. Anything beyond that value does count towards the pool."

It's also important to remember that teams can exceed their bonus pool allotment by up to five percent before incurring any future pick penalties. No team in bonus pool era has ever exceeded that additional five percent threshold.

Once again, Talk Sox will feature the Red Sox Draft Tracker, which will be kept up-to-date not only during the draft but through the entire signing period. So keep coming back for updates!

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[mvp 78]

Last year was very pitching heavy. So far this year, it's been pitching heavy. For a system that is graduating most of its high profile bats, it will need to pick up a few more bats this draft. I'd like to see a few catchers drafted as well. This org is very light in catching. 

[Soxlover]

1 hour ago, mvp 78 said:

Last year was very pitching heavy. So far this year, it's been pitching heavy. For a system that is graduating most of its high profile bats, it will need to pick up a few more bats this draft. I'd like to see a few catchers drafted as well. This org is very light in catching. 

I agree on catcher need. I think Jo Garcia could be great, but Brannon is a long shot. The guy we just added is very young but is top 20 already. Starts w an A.

We do have Arias, Jh Garcia, Gonzalez, Bleis, Romero, Cespedes, Soto, Cason and some others. I would not mind continued focus on pitching for another year.

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

Mason White is a throwback to a Dan Uggla type 2b. White's 1101 isn't quite as good as Uggla's 1288 in his final year at Memphis (498/790).

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

 

[mvp 78]

 

[sk7326]

see if they go the full 10 rounds (where the bonus pool comes from) without a single high school player draftee 

[Hugh2]

https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2025/all/team/redsox

All pitchers and short stops lol

[Hugh2]

18 minutes ago, sk7326 said:

see if they go the full 10 rounds (where the bonus pool comes from) without a single high school player draftee 

I'm sure we will see 1-2 go in rounds 11-20.  I think we see less HS players being drafted moving forward. 

I'm sure NIL is making a difference too.  Kids can go to college, increase their stock and have a fallback education AND make money now.  

[mvp 78]

57 minutes ago, Hugh2 said:

https://www.mlb.com/draft/tracker/2025/all/team/redsox

All pitchers and short stops lol

All college players.

The first two SS's taken are most likely not SS's going forward. Maximus Martin, the third SS, also played 2b and CF in college. 

[mvp 78]

 

[sk7326]

1 hour ago, Hugh2 said:

I'm sure we will see 1-2 go in rounds 11-20.  I think we see less HS players being drafted moving forward. 

I'm sure NIL is making a difference too.  Kids can go to college, increase their stock and have a fallback education AND make money now.  

NIL is part of it.

The bigger part of it was the contraction of the short season leagues by MLB.  Ideally you'd take some these high school bats and just send them to Lowell to get their feet wet.  But that option is gone now and it's either the complex league or Salem, which is a tough place to enter cold.  

And in the Sox' case specifically - if the team really is going to lean more into Statcast and away from in person scouting, then high school is where that will be felt the most.  The Red Sox new scouting paradigm will also be challenged on the international front - their international scouts are the reasons for almost all of the org's pitching the last few years.  

[sk7326]

White was the one guy I saw a writeup on the Athletic or ESPN ... from Law's others to watch outside the top 100:

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White isn’t that big but he hits the ball extremely hard, with a 90th percentile EV of 107.5 that ranks in the top five percent of Division 1 hitters and a 50 percent hard-hit rate on the season. He swings really hard, really often, with elite bat speed, and ended up with 20 homers and 65 strikeouts this spring. He’ll chase fastballs up at his neck and breaking stuff down below the zone or in the dirt; if he cuts that down even a little he has a clear path to the big leagues as at least a utility infielder with power. I think he could stick at shortstop; it’s a 60 arm and he has the pure range for shortstop, but he plays defense like he swings — a little out of control. There’s a better player buried here below the fourth-gear all the time mentality.

 

[moonslav59]

The Sox continue their focus on pitching- even more than last draft:

3 of top 4 picks were pitchers.

8 of top 10, as well. 7 of next 11 were pitchers, too.

15 of 21 total!!!

All but one prospect were college players.