{"id":19093,"date":"2025-07-13T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2025-07-13T21:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19093"},"modified":"2025-07-14T08:03:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T12:03:04","slug":"final-mocks-and-the-eve-of-the-2025-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=19093","title":{"rendered":"Final Mocks and the eve of the 2025 Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Here&#8217;s the very last post I&#8217;ll do on 1-1 predictions for this Draft season.  I&#8217;ll include all the &#8220;final&#8221; mocks for our various favorite pundits, probably will have to add in more post-publishing, and will make a final prediction on the top 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m repeating this link block b\/c shops are updating their Draft Board Ranks, as noted below<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>MLBpipeline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/prospects\/2025\/draft\/\">expanded top 250 Draft Board<\/a>.  updated 6\/27\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/rankings\/2025-top-mlb-draft-prospects\/\">Baseball America top 500<\/a> Board updated 6\/25\/25 (paywall)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keith Law <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6454202\/2025\/07\/01\/mlb-draft-2025-top-100-prospects-holliday-doyle\/\">top 100 Draft board<\/a>, updated 7\/1\/25 (paywall I think)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>CBS Sports\/RJ Anderson <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/2025-mlb-draft-rankings-top-30-players-in-class-including-eli-willits-jamie-arnold-ethan-holliday-and-more\/\">Top 30 Board<\/a> 6\/12\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baseball Prospectus <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectus.com\/prospects\/article\/99568\/bp-on-draft-2025-mlb-draft-big-board\/\">MLB Draft Big Board for 2025<\/a> posted 7\/3\/25 (paywall)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prospects1500 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospects1500.com\/mlb-draft\/2025-mlb-draft-top-250-rankings\/\">Top 250 Draft board<\/a> released 7\/7\/25<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ProspectsLive Final <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/2025-mlb-draft-top-400-prospects-final-big-board\/?ref=mlb-draft-content-newsletter\">Top 400 Draft<\/a> board released 7\/12\/25 (paywall past top 10)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45592164\/mlb-2025-draft-mock-drafts-ranking-order-analysis\">ESPN Full Draft coverage Home page<\/a>, including links to all mocks, boards, etc.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Final Mocks from our favorite pundits:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Keith Law\/The Athletic: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6483516\/2025\/07\/12\/mlb-mock-draft-2025-final-kade-anderson\/\">7\/12\/25 final mock<\/a>: Anderson, Hernandez, Arquette, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jim Callis\/MLBPipeline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/news\/final-mlb-mock-draft-2025?t=mlb-draft-coverage&amp;partnerId=it-20250713-14201708-mlb-1-A&amp;utm_id=it-20250713-14201708-mlb-1-A&amp;lctg=20739465\">7\/13\/25 Final Mock<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Hernandez, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Jonathan Mayo\/MLBPipeline: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/milb\/news\/final-mlb-mock-draft-2025?t=mlb-draft-coverage&amp;partnerId=it-20250713-14201708-mlb-1-A&amp;utm_id=it-20250713-14201708-mlb-1-A&amp;lctg=20739465\">7\/13\/25 Final Mock<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Hernandez, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baseball America Staff. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballamerica.com\/stories\/2025-mlb-mock-draft-7-0-first-round-predictions-for-every-team-on-draft-day\/?utm_source=newsletter&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=final-mock-draft-predictions-for-every-first-round-pick&amp;_bhlid=7ae1d48ebec8f0578ded1213dc2cbbb0701ac04b\">Final Mock 7.0 7\/13\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Hernandez, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Fangraphs\/Eric Longenhagen: <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.fangraphs.com\/2025-mock-draft\/\">2025 Mock Draft 7\/13\/25<\/a>: Willits, Doyle, Holliday, Anderson, Carlson<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ESPN\/Kiley McDaniel: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/mlb\/story\/_\/id\/45709226\/2025-mlb-mock-draft-30-kiley-mcdaniel-predicts-top-picks\">Mock 3.0 7\/10\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Hernandez, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RJ Anderson\/CBSSports (didn&#8217;t see one)<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mike Axisa\/CBSSports <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbssports.com\/mlb\/news\/2025-mlb-mock-draft-predicting-every-first-round-pick-as-lsu-pitcher-goes-no-1-ethan-holliday-in-top-five\/\">First Round Prediction 7\/13\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Irish, Holliday, Willits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prospects 1500: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/switzs-draft-day-mock-draft\/?ref=mlb-draft-content-newsletter&amp;attribution_id=686dc96b0c11430001b8132e&amp;attribution_type=post\">Final Mock 7\/13\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Arnold, Hernandez, Holliday, Willits.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Prospects Live <a href=\"https:\/\/www.prospectslive.com\/2025-mlb-mock-draft-3-0-the-final-mock\/?ref=mlb-draft-content-newsletter\">Final Mock 7\/12\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Doyle, Hernandez, Holliday, Arnold<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baseball Prospect Journal: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.baseballprospectjournal.com\/2025-mlb-draft-mock-draft-4-0\/\">Mock 4.0 7\/20\/25<\/a>: Anderson, Arnold, Arquette, Holliday, Willits<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>D1Baseball\/<a href=\"https:\/\/d1baseball.com\/prospects\/2025-d1-baseball-prep-baseball-experts-draft\/?utm_source=feedly&amp;utm_medium=rss&amp;utm_campaign=2025-d1-baseball-prep-baseball-experts-draft\">Prep Experts Mock<\/a>: paywall<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Baseball Prospectus: paywall<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>My current prediction for the top 5:<\/strong> More and more I think we&#8217;ll go Anderson, as does the rest of the industry.  My final prediction:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Anderson, Doyle, Arquette, Holliday (lock here if he doesn&#8217;t go 1-1), Arnold<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m repeating this analysis from before on the teams in the top 5 and their proclivities with their 1st rounders, but i&#8217;ve added to it a bit as it helps guide the predictions:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Post publishing Actual top 5 picks<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/draft\/tracker\">ACTUAL PICKS post mocks<\/a>: shockers and surprises.  Willits, Bremner, Anderson, Holliday, Doyle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Almost nobody got it right: only Longenhagen, who was one of the last people to publish, got Willits right amongst the major shops.  Bravo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s the very last post I&#8217;ll do on 1-1 predictions for this Draft season. I&#8217;ll include all the &#8220;final&#8221; mocks for our various favorite pundits, probably will have to add in more post-publishing, and will make a final prediction on the top 5. I&#8217;m repeating this link block b\/c shops are updating their Draft Board [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19093"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19117,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19093\/revisions\/19117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}