On 12-5-24, MLB.com posted their top 100 prospects in the
upcoming draft. Beginning 2-2-25, we will post it in backward order, ending
with the pick for 1.1
https://www.mlb.com/prospects/2025/draft/ -
RHP Corona
(CA)
18/years old
6' 4" 190
COMMITTED - Vanderbilt
Scouting grades: Fastball: 65 | Curveball: 55 | Slider: 50 |
Changeup: 60 | Control: 50 | Overall: 60
On the radar for quite some time, Hernandez started making it
clear as a junior, when he won National High School Invitational MVP honors
after tossing a complete-game shutout to help his Corona High School team win
the tournament, that he’d be the top high school arm in the Class of 2025. He
cemented it by showing elite stuff at summer showcase events like USA
Baseball’s 18U National Training Camp and the Area Code Games.
Hernandez has an ideal projectable 6-foot-4 pitcher’s frame
with the athleticism teams love to see from young power arms. Always on time
with an online and loose delivery, Hernandez has big stuff and a feel for all
four of his pitches. While he touched triple digits at the Area Code Games, he
typically sits in the mid-90s, touching 97-98 mph. His best secondary offering
is his changeup, and it’s plus right now, thrown with a lot of confidence and
missing bats with it thanks to its good action and how it plays off of his
fastball plane well. His curve, a true 12-to-6 spike curveball, has the chance
to be plus with hard, tight and late action to it, sometimes registering RPMs
in the 3,000 range. He started featuring a harder slider more on the showcase
circuit.
In addition to his pure stuff, Hernandez does a solid job
finding the zone, especially considering his age and power stuff. Committed to
Vanderbilt, he gets very high marks for his work ethic, showing the ability to
make adjustments and corrections to put himself in position to be one of the
first pitchers taken in the 2025 Draft.
2-26-25 –
MLB mock draft 2025: Projecting first round for 2025 MLB
Draft
https://sportsnaut.com/mlb/mlb-analysis/lists/mlb-mock-draft-2025/
5. St. Louis Cardinals: Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona HS
The St. Louis Cardinals are likely headed for a bit of a
rebuild under Chaim Bloom and the fifth pick in the 2025 MLB Draft is a great
place to start. Seth Hernandez, a 6-foot-4 righty, already offers the frame and
athleticism clubs like in a prototypical pitcher. Hernandez’s makeup has
reportedly drawn very high marks, per MLB.com, a characteristic that
incentivizes a club to take a chance on a projectable high school pitcher.
Hernandez is also enticing because of a four-pitch mix – fastball (97-98 MPH
max velocity), curveball (projects to be above-average), changeup (second-best
pitch) and a slider – that would provide the Cardinals organization with plenty
to work from.
2-25-25 - 2025 MLB Draft: A closer look at the top 20 high
school prospects entering the spring
2. Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona (California)
Hernandez touts a long, 6-foot-4 inch frame that helps him
get up to 98 mph on the radar gun. He also touts a heavy change-up that is
advanced for his age. He’s likely to be the first pitcher taken.
2-10-25
FLO Baseball - 2025 MLB Mock Draft 1.0-
https://www.flobaseball.tv/articles/13555752-2025-mlb-mock-draft-10-nats-stunner-with-the-no-1-pick
4. Colorado Rockies: Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona (California)
Some feel Hernandez is the best pitcher in the draft with a
98 mph fastball, while measuring 6-foot-4 and 190 pounds.
He is the best pitcher in his high school class, and he’s
committed to Vanderbilt.
The Rockies taking him here is based on the team taking
long-term upside, instead of taking a player who could debut as early as 2026.
The Rockies were one of the worst teams in baseball in 2024
and have one of the better farm systems in the game at the moment, according to
MLB pipeline and Baseball America.
1-28-25 –
MLB 2025 Mock Draft 2.0: Predictions for Every 1st-Round Pick
6. Pittsburgh Pirates: RHP Seth Hernandez, Corona HS (CA)
One of three Corona High School players who could wind up
hearing his name called in the first round, Hernandez enters the spring as the
top prep arm in the country. With an extremely projectable 6'4", 190-pound
frame and electric present stuff that includes a fastball that has touched 98
mph and a plus changeup, the Vanderbilt commit checks all the boxes to be a
future ace.
1-27-25 - Just Baseball –
2025 MLB Draft - Top 80 High School Prospects
https://www.justbaseball.com/college/mlb-draft-top-high-school-prep-prospects/
4. Seth Hernandez – RHP
HT/WT: 6’4/195 | Bat/Throw: R/R | School: Corona (CA) |
Commitment: Vanderbilt | Age: 19
At this stage of the 2025 cycle, there’s no better arm in the
class than Hernandez.
At 6’4, 195 pounds, Hernandez has plenty of projection
remaining to his frame and his operation is as easy as they come. He’s very
athletic and moves fluidly down the mound with loud arm speed and a methodical
nature to his timing.
His fastball has sat in the low-to-mid 90s thus far, though
he’s gotten up to 96-98 MPH, even touching triple digits in shorter stints, and
projects to sit closer to that mark as he fills out his frame.
He gets a solid extension and fills up the strike zone, as
well as showing a tendency to miss bats on the top rail. His change-up is one
of the best in the country, a low-80s parachute that flashes plus with a ton of
sinking action and velocity separation from the heater.
He’ll mix in a bigger curveball in the upper-70s and a firmer
cutter/slider hybrid in the mid-to-upper-80s, both of which possess spin rates
near 2,700 RPMs. His secondary command will need refinement, but overall, he
peppers the strike zone.
The mix of pure stuff, projection, and athleticism make him
the best arm in a prep class that lacks dynamic arms. Hernandez is on the older
side of the class and will be 19 on draft day. If he gets to campus, he’d be
eligible as a sophomore at Vanderbilt.
1-16-25 -
An Early Look at the Top 30 Prospects for the 2025 MLB Draft
https://lastwordonsports.com/baseball/2025/01/15/top-30-prospects-2025-mlb-draft/#google_vignette
8. Seth Hernandez,
RHP, Corona (Calif.) HS
A two-way guy coming into this spring, as someone who also
offers plus raw power with the bat, but he is a higher-ceiling pitching
prospect because of the projection to his frame as a starter with a fastball
that can get into the upper 90s mixed with a hard breaking ball that has swing
and miss potential.
2025 MLB Draft: Top 75 Prep Prospects — Prospects Live
https://www.prospectslive.com/prospects-live/2024/12/26/2025-mlb-draft-top-75-prep-prospects -
7. RHP Seth Hernandez, Corona (CA)
Height: 6’4
Weight: 195
b/t: R/R
Draft Day Age: 19 YR
Commitment: Vanderbilt
Hometown: Chino, CA
At this stage of the 2025 cycle, there's no better arm in the
class than Hernandez. At 6'4, 195 pounds, Hernandez has plenty of projection
remaining to his frame and his operation is as easy as they come. He's very
athletic and moves fluidly down the mound with loud arm speed. His fastball has
sat in the low-to-mid 90s thus far, though he's gotten up to 96-98 MPH, even
touching triple digits in shorter stints, and projects to sit closer to that
mark as he fills out his frame. He gets solid extension and fills up the strike
zone, as well as showing a tendency to miss bats on the top rail. His change-up
is one of the best in the country, a low-80s parachute that flashes plus with a
ton of sinking action and velocity separation from the heater. He'll mix in a
bigger curveball in the upper-70s and a firmer cutter/slider hybrid in the
mid-to-upper-80s, both of which possess spin rates near 2,700 RPMs. His
secondary command will need refinement, but overall, he peppers the strike
zone. The mix of pure stuff, projection, and athleticism make him the best arm
in a prep class that lacks dynamic arms. Hernandez is on the older side of the
class and will be 19 on draft day. If he gets to campus, he'd be eligible as a
sophomore at Vanderbilt.
12-23-24
White Sox 2025 MLB Draft Notebook 1.0
https://www.futuresox.net/2024/12/23/white-sox-2025-mlb-draft-notebook-1-0/
8. Toronto Blue Jays: Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona HS (CA)
Hernandez could go much higher than this. He’ll have the
earned skepticism of being a prep right hander but he might be the best pitcher
in the draft class. The 6-4, 190 pounder has the profile of a top of the
rotation starter. He was stellar on the summer circuit and he’s an athletic,
power arm with premium stuff.
12-10-24 –
Here's Pipeline's first full 2025 mock draft
https://www.mlb.com/news/first-full-2025-mlb-mock-draft?partnerID=web_article-share –
7. Marlins: Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona (Calif.) HS (No. 5)
Hernandez is interesting as a right fielder with
well-above-average raw power and arm strength -- and more interesting as a
projectable righty who can reach 98 mph with his fastball and spin a wipeout
curveball.
12-10-24 - FSS PLUS:
2025 MLB Mock Draft: So it begins…
https://futurestarsseries.com/2025-mlb-mock-draft/
9. Cincinnati Reds
Seth Hernandez, RHP — Corona HS
HOMETOWN: Chino, California
HEIGHT: 6-4
WEIGHT: 195
BAT/THROW: R-R
Hernandez might not even be available this late in the Draft
but they would welcome another pitching prospect as they’ve found more and more
success in developing that profile of late.
The thing that immediately stands out about Hernandez at this
stage is his mature pitch-ability and his natural talent to pound the strike
zone. He’ll work in the low 90s, grabbing 96 with solid spin and carry through
the zone. His best weapon currently is a low-80s slider with solid depth and
some sweep, as well as an upper-70s changeup, killing spin well.
Hernandez has a track record against older bats and he’s
shredded them up. When you consider the resume, the frame, the projection, and
the present feel for the mound, there’s upside here for an impact righty at the
next level.
8/11/24 - Sports Gambling Podcast - 2025 Mock Draft
Seth Hernandez, an Elite Charter Academy product and
Vanderbilt commit, is a very projectable 6-4, 190 pounds RHP. He lands closed
and finishes with long and whippy arm action. Hernandez’s fastball sits in the
low 90s with good ride. Hernandez has two plus offspeed offerings (changeup and
slider).
link - RHP Seth
Hernandez - Corona (CA)
Budgeoning stuff. That’s the name of the game for Seth
Hernandez. He’s eclipsed himself as the number one arm in the country, and it
is easy to see why. Tyler caught him at USA 18u just recently, and the fastball
was 96-98 mph with tons of carry. It was a shorter stint, and he usually is in
his low to mid-90s. That’s fantastic for a prep arm with much room to grow and
a very buttery operation. He pairs that fastball with a slider and a changeup.
The slider has spin rates above 2,700 RPMs, and Tyler saw it with a ton of
velocity that was 85-98 mph, giving it the action of a cutter. His changeup is
even filthier and creates great deception off his fastball. It drops out of
zone and has a ton of depth to it. As of now, Hernandez is committed to
Vanderbilt, but he expects to be one of the first arms off the board. It seems
highly unlikely that he will make his way to campus.
Tyler Jennings @TylerJennings24
Seth Hernandez, the #1 arm in the country for a reason.
Hernandez's FB was electric, sitting 94-97 T98 with strikes
and carry upstairs. Flashed a tight SL at 85-89 with cutter-esque shape and a
sharp fading CH at 80.
That was loud.
https://www.perfectgame.org/Players/Playerprofile.aspx?ID=537886 –
2024 National Showcase
Seth Hernandez is a 2025 RHP/1B/3B with a 6-4 195 lb. frame
from Chino, CA who attends Corona. Extra-large, athletic frame with broad
shoulders and long limbs, lots of twitch and physical projection remaining. Ran
a 6.75 60-yard dash. Primary right-handed pitcher, didn't throw in this look
but consistently into the mid-90s with top of the class arsenal. Smooth actions
on the approach to the ball in the outfield, clean medium length arm stroke in
back with quickness to release, lots of arm strength and carry to the intended
base with low effort, works through the ball well. Right-handed hitter, begins
with a wide base and shows rhythm throughout, easy hand speed through the zone
and able to impact the ball with authority to the pull side. Consistently on the
barrel with a solid launch and plenty of leverage through the point of contact.
Highest level tools across the board. Excellent student. Verbal commitment to
Vanderbilt. Selected to play in the Perfect Game All-American Classic.
5. Seth Hernandez, RHP, Corona (CA) HS (Vanderbilt commit)
Hernandez, a Vanderbilt commit, looks to be the top prep arm
in this draft class. Standing at 6’4, he has a big frame that allows him to
reach the upper 90s with his fastball on a consistent basis.
With a couple of strong offspeed pitches to go along with his
fastball, Hernandez projects well as you look into his future. It would be easy
to see a MLB team fall in love with him, and him end up as a top pick.
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