With the 2025 draft signing deadline behind us, we now have a clear picture of which players are getting to campus this fall.
Below are the top 50 high school players from the 2025 class who didn’t sign with a big league club in this draft cycle and will instead take their talents to the college ranks.
As is typically the case, the list is topped by a handful of upside arms. Historic hard-throwing lefthander Jack Bauer leads the group and will bring his 102-mph fastball to Mississippi State after being undrafted. Righthander Angel Cervantes became the highest-drafted player in this year’s class to not sign. He spurned a second-round selection by the Pirates and will stay local and help reinforce a UCLA team that is already one of the favorites for the 2026 College World Series. Lefthander Cameron Appenzeller checks in at No. 3 and was a late-round selection by the Mariners, but will head to Tennessee.
Outfielder Brock Sell is the top-ranked hitting prospect to reach campus. He’ll head to Stanford and continue a long tradition of Stanford commits being some of the most unlikely recruits to pick the pro game over college.
Texas leads all schools with five players on this top 50 list. LSU, Tennessee, Texas and Virginia follow suit with four players apiece. Arkansas, Mississippi State and TCU each have three players.
*Omar Serna, Lucas Franco, John Paone, Brady Dallimore and Reagan Ricken each withdrew from the draft and were removed from our BA 500 rankings. For these purposes each player was slotted back in where they would have ranked if they had remained eligible.
Jack Bauer — Bauer became the hardest-throwing high school lefthander in history and founded the triple-digit prep southpaw club in 2025. After touching 95 mph during the 2024 showcase circuit, he came out during the spring and touched 100 mph and then a few days later reached back for 102. Hitting 102 mph is a rare feat for any pitcher—lefty or otherwise, amateur or not. It’s downright silly when you pair it with his still projectable 6-foot-4, 190-pound frame and an ability to rip off a breaking ball with 3,000 rpm of spin. Questions about Bauer’s control and the consistency of his secondaries are the only thing that will prevent him from becoming a first-round pick, and those are real questions to his game. On the circuit in 2024, he was consistently erratic, walked more batters than he struck out and threw all of his pitches for strikes at a less than 50% clip. His control was…