SF Giants 2025 MLB draft primer and breakdown of the top-10 rounds

The 2025 MLB draft is officially here. The SF Giants hold two selections on Sunday, including the No. 13 and No. 85 picks. They hope that this draft provides a boost to their farm system and helps the club win down the road.

SF Giants 2025 MLB draft primer and breakdown of the top-10 rounds

This year's draft takes place over two days. The first three rounds are held on Sunday, followed by the next 17 rounds on Monday. The pace for the first few rounds is relatively slow, but it picks up later on, as the time between picks is shorter.

The Giants will enter the draft with the sixth-lowest bonus pool at $8.4 million. They can exceed that amount by five percent, so that gives them just over $8.8 million in available bonus pool money. If they do exceed their bonus pool, then they pay a tax on the overage up to that five-percent threshold. Any amount above that would result in the loss of future picks, but that has not occurred in the slot value era.

The bonus pool consists of the combined slot values for each of the team's picks through the first 10 rounds. The Giants hold eight selections in the first 10 rounds. They forfeited their second-and-fifth round picks after signing Willy Adames to a seven-year deal.

Adames rejected a qualifying offer from the Milwaukee Brewers at the start of the offseason. The penalty for signing a player who rejects a qualifying offer is the loss of their second-highest pick. However, the Giants crossed the $237 million Competitive Balance Tax (CBT) threshold in 2024, so the penalty is more severe. They currently sit comfortably below the $241 million CBT threshold for 2025.

Below are the picks the SF Giants hold and their recommended slot values:

• Round 1: No. 13 ($5,524,300)
• Round 3: No. 85 ($935,300)
• Round 4: No. 116 ($654,700)
• Round 6: No. 176 ($371,000)
• Round 7: No. 206 ($289,900)
• Round 8: No. 236 ($232,000)
• Round 9: No. 266 ($204,400)
• Round 10: No. 296 ($191,700)
• Round 11: No. 326
• Round 12: No. 356
• Round 13: No. 386
• Round 14: No. 416
• Round 15: No. 446
• Round 16: No. 476
• Round 17: No. 506
• Round 18: No. 536
• Round 19: No. 566
• Round 20: No. 596

A general rule of thumb is that teams typically target underslot players in rounds 6 - 10. This is done to create some savings that they reallocate to other picks. Do not be surprised if some players in those rounds sign for significantly below slot value. The team and player usually have a verbal understanding of what it will take to sign a player before he is selected.

There are no slot values for picks after the 10th round. Teams can offer a signing bonus of up to $150,000 without it counting against the overall bonus pool. Any amount above that does count. The 11th round tends to be interesting, as teams tend to target high-upside players who have slipped due to signability concerns. This will be Buster Posey's first year in charge of the draft.