The Mets said they did their due diligence before drafting Michigan's Mitch Voit, who celebrated a hit against USC this spring by pretending to snort the baseline chalk.

Major League Baseball's 2025 Draft has officially wrapped. The draft kicked off Sunday night as the Washington Nationals took high school shortstop Eli Willits with the first of 615 picks that were made by Monday evening.

The downside of spending hundreds of millions in free agency each offseason is that it tends to leave teams devoid of top Draft picks. So it is with the Mets, who (for the third year in a row) had their first-round selection docked 10 spots.

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