2025 MLB Draft Day 1 Thread: Boston Red Sox Draft on Talk Sox

Ayanson #38 on Law's big board

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Eyanson transferred from UC San Diego to LSU for his junior year and ended up third in Division I in strikeouts heading into Omaha, behind only teammate Kade Anderson and Tennessee’s Liam Doyle. He has an easy, athletic delivery, and he works with a plus slider that has a really sharp downward break that hitters have missed more than half the time they’ve swung at it, along with a straight changeup that’s effective but that he doesn’t use that often. He even has a 12/6 curveball, possibly a spike, that was around average most of the year but was really sharp in his Super Regional outing against West Virginia. The fastball’s a little light — he’s been up to 98, sitting 93-94, but it doesn’t have much life and doesn’t miss many bats — so maybe he ends up adding a two-seamer or cutter, or just pitching more with the off-speed stuff. He’s at least a back-end starter and I can see mid-rotation upside with everything he does well.

Henry Godbout #57

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Godbout was tabbed early in his college career as a future first-rounder because of the hit tool, but he was affected by the teamwide slump in Virginia’s lineup, losing 63 points of average and 148 points of slugging from 2024 to 2025. He still has superb contact skills, with whiff rates on fastballs of 6.3 percent over the past two springs, and he wouldn’t be the first guy to leave Charlottesville and come into more power. His swing can be very inconsistent, even down to how he strides, but the hand-eye is there and he gets some loft into his finish to keep the ball off the ground. He’ll be fine at second base.