Red Sox 2025 MLB Draft Preview

The place can I watch the Draft?

The MLB First-Yr Participant Draft begins this Sunday at 6:00 p.m. ET, with protection on ESPN and MLB Community for the primary three rounds. It continues on Monday at 11:30 a.m. for rounds 4-20, with every of nowadays streaming on mlb.com. The draft has been shortened from three days to 2 days this season.

Which picks do the Pink Sox have?

The Red Sox have an fascinating setup within the draft this season. They’ve the fifteenth total decide, adopted by the thirty third decide, which slots in the back of the primary spherical. That is the Aggressive Stability Choose that Boston acquired as a part of the return for Quinn Priester from Milwaukee. Whereas the Pink Sox forfeited their preliminary second-round decide for signing Alex Bregman with a qualifying provide connected, they recouped the seventy fifth decide on the finish of the second spherical from Nick Pivetta’s declining of the workforce’s qualifying provide and signing elsewhere.

What’s with this further decide? I assumed you couldn’t commerce draft picks.

For no matter motive, Aggressive Stability Picks are the one ones that may be traded, and this thirty third decide carries a variety of worth for the Pink Sox. With so many groups forfeiting second-round picks this yr for signing free brokers with a Spherical 2 tag connected, the Pink Sox might probably have their decide of a high-upside highschool “prep” bat with this decide and signal the participant to an over-slot deal, dissuading them from going to varsity. So as to take action, they could draft a school participant with decide 15, permitting them to unfold their bonus pool cash out extra evenly. For the reason that bonus pool and “slotting” system of the MLB Draft wants a 400-level school class to actually perceive, I like to recommend studying Jim Callis’s breakdown from Thursday of how all 30 MLB groups are allowed to spend their cash on this yr’s draft. As Callis explains,

Every choice within the first 10 rounds comes with an assigned worth, with the full for a membership’s picks equaling what it might spend in these rounds with out incurring a penalty. If a participant taken within the prime 10 rounds doesn’t signal, his selection’s worth will get subtracted from his workforce’s pool. Golf equipment close to the highest of the Draft typically spend lower than the assigned worth for these selections and use the financial savings to supply extra money to later picks.

For as many instances as we’ve been in a position to accuse the Pink Sox of being “low cost” lately, doing so at decide 15 isn’t a type of, as they are going to disperse that cash all through the draft (i.e., decide 33). Based mostly on the place their picks are slotted, Boston has a $12.4M bonus pool to spend within the draft (twelfth most) and can’t go greater than 5% over that quantity.

Who would possibly the Pink Sox choose? You didn’t point out Braden Montgomery as soon as in your preview final yr, you hack.

No, no I didn’t. The entire bonus pool facet of the MLB draft makes it distinctive and unpredictable. Two years in the past, Kyle Teel was not on the Pink Sox mock draft radars at decide 14, and neither was Montgomery a yr in the past at decide 12. In some conversations with scouts who’re extra plugged in than me, it looks like there’s a robust likelihood that the Pink Sox would go together with a school participant at decide 15 and spend up on a prep decide at 33, except a projected top-10 participant falls, as soon as once more.

I extremely counsel a Baseball America subscription for instances like this, as their Mock Draft 6.0 is posted and goes very in-depth with their scouting reviews. They’re behind a paywall, nevertheless, so I’ll go so as of MLB Pipeline’s prospect rankings, which can also be a wonderful useful resource. Together with Pipeline’s scouting grades, listed below are ten potential targets for the Pink Sox at decide #15:

Pipeline Rating #10) Kyson Witherspoon RHP, Oklahoma

Scouting grades: Fastball: 65 | Curveball: 60 | Slider: 60 | Cutter: 60 | Changeup: 45 | Management: 50 | Total: 55

Witherspoon transferred to Oklahoma from a JuCo previous to his sophomore season and has taken main steps ahead since. Pitching within the SEC this yr, Witherspoon was 10-4 with a 2.65 in 16 begins, placing out 124 in 95 innings. His stroll fee dropped from 4.5 BB/9 as a sophomore to 2.2 BB/9 as a junior. Whereas it’s much less possible that the Pink Sox go together with an arm, Witherspoon and Tyler Bremner are the 2 that they appear most linked to.

11) Ike Irish OF/C, Auburn | Bats: L, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 60 | Energy: 55 | Run: 40 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 45 | Total: 55

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Irish performed three years at Auburn, smashing 39 dwelling runs with 167 RBI over a mixed 160 video games. He hit .364 with 19 bombs in 2025 within the SEC and a few mock drafts have had him as excessive as decide #5. Contemplating the Pink Sox lately went with a first-round catcher after which traded him, it will seem to be this could be a participant that may be of curiosity if he fell a number of spots. Nonetheless, Baseball America notes tgat “Irish has a simple plus arm that may be a weapon on the place, however he must make actual strides as a receiver and blocker and to tighten up his footwork to catch.” What I do know is that if a Boston participant had “Irish” on their again, it will promote a number of jerseys.

12) Steele Corridor SS, Hewitt-Trussville HS (AL) | Bats: R, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Energy: 45 | Run: 70 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 60 | Total: 55

A highschool shortstop, the 17-year-old Corridor appears much less prone to land with Boston. Nonetheless, in Jim Callis’s mock draft final week, he had the Sox taking Corridor at 15, and wrote that he offers off “Trea Turner vibes,” so we are able to’t dismiss it totally. Corridor’s velocity and protection as a real shortstop are property and he has an enhancing hit instrument regardless of some swing-and-miss considerations with secondaries.

14) Kayson Cunningham SS/2B, Johnson (TX) | Bats: L, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 60 | Energy: 45 | Run: 60 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 50 | Total: 55

An identical story to Corridor, Cunningham is a hit-over-power prep infielder. It doesn’t seem to be a possible state of affairs, however Geoff Pontes talked about Boston as a possible touchdown spot for Cunningham on the Sox Prospects podcast final week. He’s listed at 5’10’’, 180, which may be beneficiant, so there may be the possibility he falls within the draft a bit. Cunningham has gap-to-gap energy and little or no swing-and-miss in his recreation, profiling extra possible as a second baseman with an opportunity to stay at quick.

15) Marek Houston SS, Wake Forest | Bats: R, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Energy: 45 | Run: 55 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 60 | Total: 55

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Houston has been linked in a few spots as a school bat that the Pink Sox are . He performed three years at Wake Forest and slashed .302/.409/.478 with 27 HR and 27 SB over a mixed 180 video games. His greatest instrument is his glove, thought of by many as the very best defensive shortstop within the draft, and he has good velocity and baserunning abilities. Houston is the protected decide due to his protection, however there may be danger as a utility man if he doesn’t hit sufficient.

16) Brendan Summerhill OF, Arizona | Bats: L, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 55 | Energy: 50 | Run: 55 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 55 | Total: 55

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Summerhill is a superb contact hitter who has little or no swing-and-miss and makes good swing selections. He handled a fractured hand for a part of this season however completed the yr with a .343/.459/.556 slash line over 44 video games. Summerhill nonetheless has some projection and has not hit for a ton of energy in school (12 HRs up to now two seasons mixed). He performed proper area for Arizona however has expertise in heart and Pipeline believes he can land in heart area long-term to up his worth. Summerhill grades out above common throughout the board and was talked about by Callis as a “school place participant who might curiosity (Boston).”

18) Tyler Bremner RHP, UC Santa Barbara

Scouting grades: Fastball: 65 | Slider: 50 | Changeup: 65 | Management: 55 | Total: 55

Bremner is likely one of the two gamers that I’ve learn and mentioned with scouts as most frequently linked to the Pink Sox. He has a robust repertoire as a beginning pitcher who might transfer rapidly up the ladder in direction of the large leagues. His fastball sits at 95 and touches 98, with a change-up that’s his greatest pitch (BA has it as a 70-grade). At UC Santa Barbara this spring, Bremner was 5-4 with a 3.72 ERA and a 19:111 BB:Okay in 77 innings, and was very robust in his late-season begins. There have been whispers that Bremner might be taken as excessive as #2 to the Angels, so clearly, there’s a very big selection of the place he might land in spherical one.

21) Gavin Kilen 2B, Tennessee

Scouting grades: Hit: 60 | Energy: 45 | Run: 50 | Arm: 50 | Subject: 55 | Total: 55 | Bats: L, Throws: R

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Kilen, together with Bremner, is the opposite title that has been linked most ceaselessly to Boston. You don’t must dig too far to determine that the Sox like Kilen as they drafted him in spherical 13 in 2022, earlier than he selected to go to varsity. After two years at Louisville, Kilen transferred to Tennessee and took off in 2025, slashing .357/.441/.671 with 15 HR and 46 RBI in 53 video games. Kilen is a pure left-handed hitter who barrels up a variety of balls, profiling greatest as a second baseman, whereas he could make the performs at shortstop. Baseball America and The Athletic’s Keith Law each mocked Kilen to Boston at #15, and Pontes additionally spoke about him in depth on the Sox Prospects podcast.

22) Gavin Fien 3B, Nice Oak (CA) | Bats: R, Throws: R

Scouting grades: Hit: 50 | Energy: 50 | Run: 50 | Arm: 55 | Subject: 50 | Total: 50

Fien is dedicated to Texas, nevertheless it’s doable {that a} workforce might be sufficient within the upside to signal him to a first-round deal. As MLB Pipeline explains, Fien had a “summer time showcase circuit the place many evaluators thought he was the very best prep hitter within the class. Fien hit in all places he went, successful MLB Develops MVP honors at Main League Baseball’s Excessive Faculty All-American Recreation with a pair of hits and RBIs and batting .400 for Crew USA within the 18U World Cup qualifier in Panama, although a much less productive spring has made some evaluators pause.” Fien has a success/energy mixture that groups dream on and the Pink Sox analytics division appears to be enamored with him. Whereas it’s doable that he’s a goal at 15, it might be the thirty third decide that the Pink Sox are hoping to make use of to throw a hefty bonus at Fien.

23) Gage Wooden RHP, Arkansas

Scouting grades: Fastball: 70 | Curveball: 55 | Slider: 45 | Changeup: 45 | Management: 55 | Total: 50

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Lastly, there may be Gage Wooden, who was a reliever for 2 years earlier than shifting to the rotation and doing so with authority. Wooden threw a no-hitter within the Faculty World Series for Arkansas, placing out 19. He made 10 begins on the yr, going 4-1 with a 3.86 ERA and a 7:69 BB:Okay ratio in simply 37 ²⁄₃ innings. Wooden missed two months with a shoulder harm, and mixed with the transfer from reduction, has some danger, however a dominant fastball that touches 98 and an influence curveball might be a lethal mixture within the massive leagues.