The 15 early-round MLB draft prospects to know in the Men's College World Series

The imaginable endowment successful Omaha is beardown this year. Even though lone 2 SEC teams made it, the Men's College World Series tract is afloat of accepted powers with first-round talents.

Before regionals, I ranked the programs with the astir MLB draught prospects. Although the second-, third- and eighth-ranked teams made it to Omaha, the different 5 MCWS teams didn't ace the apical dozen. Most of them would've been successful the adjacent tier -- with the notable (and fantastic) objection of Murray State.

Below, I fertile the apical 15 prospects successful the tourney (regardless of draught class), who are each beardown candidates to beryllium drafted successful the archetypal oregon compensation rounds. Some underclass prospects could beryllium successful that conversation, and they're each covered beneath successful the team-by-team breakdown. This ranking is based connected large league imaginable and draught stock, not imaginable College World Series impact, and prospects are 2025 draft-eligible unless noted otherwise.

Here are each the apical pro prospects successful Omaha this year.

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Top MLB draught prospects successful MCWS

1. Roch Cholowsky, SS, UCLA (2026)
2. Kade Anderson, LHP, LSU
3. Aiva Arquette, SS, Oregon State
4. Dax Whitney, RHP, Oregon State (2027)
5. Wehiwa Aloy, SS, Arkansas
6. Brendan Summerhill, CF, Arizona
7. Gage Wood, RHP, Arkansas
8. Derek Curiel, CF, LSU (2026)
9. Casan Evans, RHP, LSU (2027)
10. Cole Gibler, LHP, Arkansas (2027)
11. Caden Bodine, C, Coastal Carolina
12. Anthony Eyanson, RHP, LSU
13. Patrick Forbes, RHP, Louisville
14. Charles Davalan, LF, Arkansas
15. Zach Root, LHP, Arkansas

Arizona

Top Prospect: Brendan Summerhill, CF

Summerhill is the wide headliner here, tracking arsenic a mid-first-round prime with above-average tools, but Arizona besides has a ton of pro endowment extent who should beryllium drafted successful aboriginal rounds.

The Wildcats' outfield features Aaron Walton and Easton Breyfogle (2026), portion the infield has immoderate pro endowment successful shortstop Mason White, 3rd baseman Maddox Mihalakis and catcher Adonys Guzman. The pitching unit besides has immoderate extent with right-handers Collin McKinney, Owen Kramkowski (2026) and Smith Bailey (2027), on with a fewer much successful the bullpen.

One oregon 2 volition sneak into the 3rd round, but astir acceptable conscionable beyond that.

Arkansas

Top Prospect: Wehiwa Aloy, SS

Arkansas is flush with early-round pro talent, finishing second successful my rankings of teams with the astir pro endowment and present archetypal among the programs successful Omaha. Aloy leads the mode -- he'll apt beryllium selected by Pick 15 successful this summer's draught -- but right-hander Gage Wood, left-hander Zach Root and near fielder Charles Davalan should each spell by astir Pick 50. Third baseman Brent Iredale is simply a sleeper prime who should besides spell successful the apical 3 rounds of this draft.

Catcher Ryder Helfrick and right-hander Gabe Gaeckle pb the 2026 group, and left-hander Cole Gibler tops the 2027 hopefuls. All 3 players could spell successful the archetypal 2 rounds.

Coastal Carolina

Top Prospect: Caden Bodine, C

The Chanticleers are akin to Gonzaga's men's hoops squad -- a perennial, nationally applicable mid-major program. Bodine leads the mode arsenic a late-first/early-second-round imaginable who stands retired for his interaction and framing. There isn't a ton of top-five-round extent talent, but right-handers Jacob Morrison and Cameron Flukey (2026) and left-hander Dominick Carbone (2026) are the next-best talents, with Flukey the champion of the bunch.

Louisville

Top Prospect: Patrick Forbes, RHP

Forbes is simply a late-first/early-second-round acceptable arsenic a starter with large worldly but could extremity up arsenic a reliever successful the majors. Louisville's lineup has immoderate pro prospects: outfielder Zion Rose (2026), halfway fielder Lucas Moore (2026), archetypal baseman Tague Davis (2027), 3rd baseman Jake Munroe and catcher Matt Klein. Right-hander Tucker Biven, who has been trending up successful the 2nd fractional of the twelvemonth and getting immoderate starts.

LSU

Top Prospect: Kade Anderson, LHP

LSU was third (now 2nd among teams successful Omaha) successful my rankings of the programs with the apical pro talent. Anderson could beryllium the No. 1 prime and seems similar a fastener to astatine slightest spell successful the apical five. Outfielder Derek Curiel and shortstop Steven Milam pb the mode successful their 2026 radical portion right-handers Casan Evans and William Schmidt are the team's apical 2027 prospects.

There's besides plentifulness of extent beyond those players. Right-handers Anthony Eyanson and Chase Shores, 2nd baseman Daniel Dickinson and designated hitter Ethan Frey are each successful the speech to spell successful the archetypal 3 rounds of the 2025 draft.

Murray State

Top Prospect: Will Vierling, C

The Racers mightiness beryllium the squad with the astir improbable Cinderella run to Omaha successful our lifetime. Vierling (cousin of Detroit Tigers outfielder Matt Vierling) is simply a later-round imaginable for this twelvemonth arsenic a left-handed-hitting catcher. After checking with immoderate scouts, that mightiness beryllium each of the pro endowment connected this team. A assemblage squad afloat of bully assemblage players who are blistery astatine the close infinitesimal mightiness beryllium capable to marque immoderate sound successful Omaha, but conscionable getting this acold is an unthinkable accomplishment.

Oregon State

Top Prospect: Aiva Arquette, SS

Arquette and right-hander Dax Whitney (2027) are some top-half-of-the-first-round talents to header a beardown Beavers club. There's much high-end endowment successful the lineup and rotation with 3rd baseman Trent Caraway, near fielder Gavin Turley, left-hander Nelson Keljo, right-hander Eric Segura (2026) and left-hander Ethan Kleinschmit (2026), who are each apical three-to-four-round talents playing cardinal roles for Oregon State this year.

UCLA

Top Prospect: Roch Cholowsky, SS (2026)

Cholowsky is the apical pro imaginable successful assemblage baseball, making him an aboriginal campaigner to spell archetypal wide adjacent summer. He has a implicit crippled and is supra mean astatine astir everything connected the field.

There's immoderate extent for the Bruins successful the third-to-fifth-round range, peculiarly successful the infield: catcher Cashel Duggar (2026), 3rd baseman Roman Martin (2026), archetypal baseman Mulivai Levu (2026), 2nd baseman Phoenix Call (2026), near fielder Dean West (2026) and right-handers Cal Randall (2026) and Easton Hawk (2027). But they don't person overmuch other successful the 2025 group.