2025 MLB Draft Day 1 Thread: Chicago Cubs Draft on North Side Baseball

[731.4life]

Rockies have Holliday, Condon, and Hunter Goodman, along with Dollander.

[JBears79]

Wtf? Bremner went 2? Surprised.

[Neuby]

Doyle is a great get at 5.  

[CubinNY]

Thank goodness Willits didn’t drop to the Cardinals 

[Jason Ross]

Man, I'm *glad* the Cardinals took Doyle. Hernandez is the guy I think is the best arm available. Doyle has such a weird profile. His fastball is super cool and fun, but not entirely sure you can just be a fastball guy at the MLB. Fastballs have the best numbers against, and throwing 95-97 isn't special any more (his shape is though!). 

Just don't really love his profile. I know people get jazzed about him, I'm less so. 

[Tryptamine]

well the NLC just became a lot better.

[Jason Ross]

Pirates take Seth Hernandez and immediately announce he's on the trade block during the 2031 Trade Deadline.

[Hrubes20]

Stupid Pirates not going the cheap route. I wanted an Ike Irish underslot

[Tryptamine]

That Pirate rotation has the potential of just being absolutely unbelievably good.

[Jason Ross]

Also, as an aside, I just can not with Harold Reynolds.

[JBears79]

Dolye is a huge dbag so he will be easy to hate as well.

Man if im Hernandez right now, im heavily considering college. Especially with NIL money

[Tryptamine]

Just now, Jason Ross said:

Also, as an aside, I just can not with Harold Reynolds.

Another year where every comparison he makes is someone of the same race.

[I owned a Suzuki]

Just now, Jason Ross said:

Also, as an aside, I just can not with Harold Reynolds.

MLB Net has a lot of decent ex players who give solid analysis.....To bad Dero and Reynolds have somehow got to be the top guys.

[Hrubes20]

1 minute ago, Jason Ross said:

Also, as an aside, I just can not with Harold Reynolds.

You don’t agree with him that the Rockies should push Holliday to the bigs to play for a 60 win team?

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, Hrubes20 said:

You don’t agree with him that the Rockies should push Holliday to the bigs to play for a 60 win team?

It's such a surprise that no MLB team has hired him off of MLBN to be apart of their front office.

[Jason Ross]

3 minutes ago, I owned a Suzuki said:

MLB Net has a lot of decent ex players who give solid analysis.....To bad Dero and Reynolds have somehow got to be the top guys.

I'm glad I'm surrounded by likeminded people here. People who I get along with and people who think Harold Reynolds is a good thing talking are two circles in a Venn Diagram that don't touch.

This is a safe space.

[Tryptamine]

Watch the Reds take Arnold now

[Rob]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

Watch the Reds take Arnold now

Rumor is Steele Hall

Edited July 13, 2025 by Rob

[Jason Ross]

Just now, Rob said:

Rumor is Steele Hall

I like Steele Hall. Must be going under if they do Hall because 9 is very high for him. 

[Tryptamine]

Well 2 of the 3 guys I wanted at #17 didn't even make it to #10, so much for all of that.

[CubinNY]

Run on HS kids

[Outshined_One]

Chaos is fun, but no one's gone completely off board yet. Hall and Bremner were still potential picks in the 10-15 range in early mocks. It mostly feels.like a reshuffling of the top 15 picks so far.

[Tryptamine]

Well there's really not anyone left who could slide to #17 at this point that I would have been shocked to see them there.

[Jason Ross]

1 minute ago, Tryptamine said:

Well there's really not anyone left who could slide to #17 at this point that I would have been shocked to see them there.

Yeah, no one I'll be shocked but still really hoping for Witherspoon. Lance Brozdowski really sold me on him.

That said, I doubt Tampa lets him get past them, so I don't think he'll be there.

[Jason Ross]

6 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

Chaos is fun, but no one's gone completely off board yet. Hall and Bremner were still potential picks in the 10-15 range in early mocks. It mostly feels.like a reshuffling of the top 15 picks so far.

That one is off the board. Fien was ranked in the late 20's and early 30's.