2025 MLB Draft

Well, the 2025 MLB Draft is officially in the books. Because of extenuating circumstances, I was able to do my research during the draft this year, instead of all at the end (which is much easier!).

The process: I have a database with every single player who has appeared in the VBL since 1994. As the draft picks come in, I literally check every single drafted college player to see if they appear in the database, and because of all the transfers that happen now, I sometimes have to search for information on the player if, say, the name matches but the school does not. (That happened many times today.)

The other thing to note is that my database does not include the 2025 VBL players. So if there were any of those guys drafted today, they aren’t on my list- and I would love to hear about it so I can add them.

I am also incredibly human, so it’s possible I may have missed one or more players from before 2025 as well. Just fire me a heads up!

So here we go-

Round	Overall Pick	Name	Position	College	ML Team	VBL Team
1	40	Zachary Root	LHP	Arkansas	Los Angeles D	Charlottesville 23
3	92	Brian Curley	RHP	Georgia	Arizona	Culpeper 23
5	138	Cameron Nelson	OF	Wake Forest	Colorado	Harrisonburg 24
5	139	Chris Arroyo	1B	Virginia	Miami	Charlottesville 23
6	190	Jaxon Dalena	RHP	Shippensburg	San Diego	Purcellville 23
7	222	Will McCausland	RHP	Ole Miss	Cleveland	Staunton 22
8	232	Danny Thompson	RHP	UNC Greensboro	Toronto	Winchester 22
8	233	Josh Tate	OF	Georgia Southern	Pittsburgh	Charlottesville 23
8	238	Dylan Brown	LHP	Old Dominion	Boston	Woodstock 23
9	264	Kien Vu	OF	Arizona State	Cincinnati	Culpeper 23
9	277	Logan Braunschweig	OF	UAB	Atlanta	Covington 23
10	287	Austin Newton	RHP	South Florida	Colorado	Covington 23
10	289	Nick Rodriguez	2B	Missouri State	Los Angeles A	Staunton 22
10	313	Tyler McLoughlin	RHP	Georgia	New York M	Charlottesville 22
11	336	Justin Thomas	OF	Arkansas	Houston	Charlottesville 23
12	358	Ethan Walker	LHP	Kentucky	Boston	NM, Pur 22
12	363	Tayler Montiel	LHP	Tulane	Arizona	Charlottesville 22
12	372	Ryan DeSanto	LHP	Penn State	Cleveland	Strasburg 23
13	386	Broedy Poppell	C	Florida A&M	San Francisco	Front Royal 22,23,24
13	397	Logan Forsythe	RHP	Louisiana Tech	Atlanta	Charlottesville 23
14	418	Carter Rasmussen	RHP	Wofford	Boston	Culpeper 23,24
15	438	Josh Hogue	3B	NC State	Miami	Winchester 23
15	444	Andrew Shaffner	RHP	NC State	Cincinnati	Staunton 24
15	460	Ryan Reed	LHP	Pittsburgh	San Diego	Woodstock 23
16	466	Kaleb Freeman	C	Georgia State	Chicago WS	Purcellville 24
16	493	Zack Mack	RHP	Loyola Marymount	New York M	Charlottesville 23
17	504	Dylan King	C	Central Florida	Cincinnati	Purcellville 23
18	550	Landry Jurecka	RHP	Queens	San Diego	Purcellville 24
19	570	Liam Best	RHP	Appalachian State	St.Louis	Charlottesville 23
20	609	Kameron Douglas	OF	Alabama State	Detroit	Front Royal 23

• In all, 30 players were drafted- 4 fewer than last year, and 3 fewer than 2023…
• Charlottesville bagged 9, Purcellville 5, Staunton and Culpeper got 3, Winchester, Woodstock, Covington and Front Royal all had 2, and Harrisonburg, Strasburg and New Market had 1. Looking for the missing team? It’s Waynesboro. (And the total is 31 if you add them up- because Ethan Walker played for both New Market and Purcellville in 2022. They both get to claim him.). This marks the third year in a row in which Charlottesville has the most (or tied for the most) drafted players…
• The 2023 Charlottesville squad bagged seven draftees on its own…
• Brian Curley is both the first and second draft picks in Culpeper history…
• Jaxon Dalena is the highest draft pick in Purcellville history (6th round)…
• From 2017 to 2023, the league did not produce a first round pick, but has five first round draft picks in the past three years. Three of them are from Charlottesville (Wyatt Langford, Trey Yesavage, and Zach Root). Can anyone name the other two, along with the VBL team they played for?

Ok, I’ve got to hang it up tonight.