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I'll be chatting about the draft at 2 p.m. ET today. Get your questions in if you have them: baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-dr…

Today's draft chat is about to get rolling: baseballamerica.com/stories/mlb-dr…

Another signings update to the DB. We are up to 472 players signed from the 2025 class: baseballamerica.com/draft-results/

Huge news for UCLA, as RHP Angel Cervantes (50th overall pick) announces he'll make his way to Westwood. Legit four-pitch mix, plus pitchability. FB up to 95 to go along with a plus CH and a pair of high-spin breaking balls. Could immediately earn a spot in the weekend rotation.

The draft signing deadline is on July 28, but there aren't many picks left who aren't signed. We now have 521 players signed with their bonuses included at the link. baseballamerica.com/draft-results/

Legend.

We have just four unsigned players in our database among top-10 round selections on signing deadline day. Teams have until 5 p.m. ET today to get their 2025 draft class signed. baseballamerica.com/draft-results/

lol Grok is dumb and wrong. This site is a real hell hole.

Going live on the Baseball America Hot Sheet showing shortly. Talking Trade Deadline w/ Scott Braun JJ Cooper and Jesús Cano youtube.com/live/6uRoWZPaZ…

The Rays have signed RHP Trace Phillips to a $629,200 deal as an UDFA. He ranked as the No. 190 prospect on the BA 500. I believe that's the second largest UDFA bonus ever.

We should have full signing bonus info for the 2025 class shortly, plus some post-deadline content on the way.

Complete draft signings are now reflected in the draft database: baseballamerica.com/draft-results/

The Brewers signed their final four drafted HS players in the class: 17th RHP Luke Roupe, $225,000 18th C Rylan Mills, $247,500 19th RHP Chase Bentley, $757,500 20th RHP Ma'Kale Holden, $410,000

Now that the signing deadline is passed, here are the top 50 high school players heading to campus: baseballamerica.com/stories/top-50…

Teams this year spent just over $401 million in collective signing bonuses. Here are the thumbnail numbers for each team (sorted by % of pool spent):

We've updated our UDFA tracker to reflect the signing deadline and all official deals. Largest UDFA deals this year: Trace Phillips, $629,200 (Rays) Tommy Case, $422,500 (Dodgers) Caden Merritt, $197,500 (Braves) Sam White, $158,000 (Blue Jays) baseballamerica.com/stories/2025-m…

TJ Friedl, $732,500 (2016 Reds)

First, big thanks for all this work. Much appreciated! -6 teams don't use their full pool -4 use exact -20 go into the bonus, with one (CLE) using every penny $7,658,801 in tax on overages, of which gets split between payees that didn't spend into the bonus. $765,880 per team

I looked into the best, worst and overall "values" of the 2025 draft by assigning slot values to our BA 500 board. It's a bit cruder than I'd like, but does show you which picks and classes the BA board liked and didn't like: baseballamerica.com/stories/the-be…

College exit velocities are on the rise and markedly outpacing MLB outputs. On the 2025 data, growing safety concerns among coaches and officials, and possible solutions: baseballamerica.com/stories/colleg…