The 2025 Major League Baseball Draft commences on Sunday, July 13th at 6:00 PM ET, and the Cincinnati Reds hold the 9th pick of the 1st round. That leaves them in a distinctly different strategic scenario than they were just last year, when they focused in on Wake Forest RHP Chase Burns with the #2 overall pick knowing far fewer things had to go right for them to get ‘their’ guy.
That brings us to RHP Seth Hernandez out of Corona High School in Chino, California. The 6’4” Vanderbilt commit is almost universally considered the top pitching prospect in the prep ranks - and perhaps the top prep prospect overall.