2025 MLB Draft Day 2 Thread: Chicago Cubs Draft on North Side Baseball

1 minute ago, Rcal10 said:

..... Maybe Jed was instructed not to spend on the draft🤷. So they are going cheap. 

Heh heh, that I think is relatively implausible.  They spend to the max every year.  Have every year since the rules have been in place.  Kantro has either spent it all already, or else is still going to.  

Selecting multiple guys who dropped due to medicals is definitely a choice.

2 minutes ago, Rcal10 said:

The list of meh picks continues. Don’t get it. Obviously the Cubs are seeing something most others don’t see or agree with. Maybe Jed was instructed not to spend on the draft🤷. So they are going cheap. 

The Cubs will spend their full allotment. They always go to the edge of the 5% overage. We just might not like how they get there. 

I'm still wondering if the fact that other teams aren't taking these guys either doesn't mean there's a simple logistics issue of only having an hour to work through the discussions instead of overnight as in year's past.

13th round: RHP Nate Williams, Mississippi St (senior)

7 minutes ago, Bertz said:

I'm still wondering if the fact that other teams aren't taking these guys either doesn't mean there's a simple logistics issue of only having an hour to work through the discussions instead of overnight as in year's past.

The Brewers are still doing their universally praised thing of taking 4th-6th round graded prep kids (or even lower graded kids from the North) in rounds 11-20. 

This is pretty wild

14th round: RHP Kaemyn Franklin, Victory Christian HS (OK)

Kohl Franklin's younger brother. Had Tommy John a few months ago.

Hoyer and DK absolutely love taking injured players. Jesus. 

Lol, they seem to know what they are doing, so I guess?  

I'm all in. Draft every hurt kid who has a good scouting report before he got hurt. 

Ive been cool with how our pitchers have been developing. Especially this second wave we have coming through starting with Wiggins, Gallagher and Sanders but this just seems like such a weird strategy.

15th rounder: RHP Noah Edders, Troy (senior)

Previously went to Bradley and Downers Grove South HS

Since the 5th pick in the 13th round, only one player ranked by MLB.com has been taken.

Barring something crazy happening, it looks like Wing and Hartshorn may be huge overslots.  I'm going to take the "glass half full" approach and be somewhat excited that the FO found two guys they think so highly of that they would rather blow their entire underslot load on them, rather than spread it out to 4-5 others.

12 minutes ago, JBears79 said:

Hoyer and DK absolutely love taking injured players. Jesus. 

If you assume all pitchers break and often, maybe it's better to get them coming off injury rather than when they're healthy and about to break?

Nothing behind that theory.

4 minutes ago, Bertz said:

Since the 5th pick in the 13th round, only one player ranked by MLB.com has been taken.

There's definitely something up league-wide.

2024 Undrafted Ranked Players

2025 Undrafted Ranked Players

The draft isn't over yet and it's likely at least a few of those guys get popped, but there's a lot of mid-tier HS depth that's currently sitting undrafted compared to last year.

Just now, CaliforniaRaisin said:

If you assume all pitchers break and often, maybe it's better to get them coming off injury rather than when they're healthy and about to break?

Nothing behind that theory.

Its a fair hypothesis. I thought that same thing when they first started doing that a couple classes ago. 

Not that I'm complaining, but it's weird that Tom isn't in here during the draft.  

 

16th rounder: RHP Riely Hunsaker, Lamar

Just now, CaliforniaRaisin said:

16th rounder: RHP Riely Hunsaker, Lamar

 

20 minutes ago, Outshined_One said:

There's definitely something up league-wide.

2024 Undrafted Ranked Players

2025 Undrafted Ranked Players

The draft isn't over yet and it's likely at least a few of those guys get popped, but there's a lot of mid-tier HS depth that's currently sitting undrafted compared to last year.

I wonder if this is just the first year that we are seeing the effects of NIL money on college baseball programs. It's taken a little bit to get there but teams probably have budgets now that football and basketball has been sorted out with a lot of schools.

Man the 11th round and after used to be more exciting than this, we're getting like what maybe 2 players in the top 250  taken per round at this point? This is incredibly boring.

17th round: Logan Poteet, C, UNC-Charlotte

With some much talent not drafted this year, could it make sense for a team to blow past all the spending limits to secure a massive haul, only punting next years picks?