2025 MLB Draft: Everything to know about the Rays picks and how to watch

The Tampa Bay Rays are primed for another big draft for 2025, with six picks on Day 1 of the MLB Draft on Sunday Night: the team’s four standard picks through the first three rounds (with none surrendered in penalties for signing top free agents, duh), plus one as compensation for an undrafted player from 2024, and another acquired in an off-season trade of starter Jeffrey Springs.

Accordingly, the team has the second largest bonus pool this season, second only to the Mariners, with $16,699,400 available to spend.

For perspective, that’s more than triple the amount available to the Yankees and Mets. Indeed, the Rays first selection at No. 14 overall — awarded through the MLB lottery — has a…