MLB Draft 2025: Day 1 Open Thread
Last year, Cleveland selected second baseman Travis Bazzana with the No. 1 pick overall in the draft. FanGraphs ranked him as the No. 36 prospect in MLB entering the 2025 season. Our Covering the Corner readers ranked him the No. 1 prospect in the Guardians system. Thus far, Bazzana has played well when healthy, although he's missed a good chunk of the 2025 season with an oblique injury (although he's making rehab appearances in the ACL and should be back soon).
Cleveland has six picks in today's portion of the draft, Nos. 27, 64, 66, 70, 101 and 132. They move from the first pick in the first round last year to the last pick (No. 27) of the first round this year. The No. 70 pick was acquired from Arizona in the Josh Naylor trade.
Things are a little different this year. Day one of the 2025 MLB Draft includes the first round, a prospect promotion round, competitive balance Round A, the second round, competitive balance round B, compensation picks and rounds three and four. It will be live tonight starting at 6:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, MLB Network, MLB.com, and a YouTube livestream. Day two, which includes rounds five through 20, will be broadcast on Monday, July 14th, on MLB.com starting at 11:30 a.m.
Covering the Corner's Brian Hemminger will be in the comments with all the first round picks, alerts when Cleveland picks and keep an eye out for posts on the first handful of Cleveland selections as well as any notable selections later in the draft.
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