The Detroit Tigers are pushing in all their chips on a high-upside pitching prospect in the 11th round of the MLB Draft. It may be a stroke of genius — or not.

The Seattle Mariners made Hayden Murphy the fourth pitcher picked from Auburn ’s 2025 team in the Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft when the American League club selected the right-hander at No. 453 on Monday. Murphy attracted big-league attention even though his 2025 campaign didn’t go as well as hoped.

Max Clark, McGonigle, Max Anderson, and Bryce Rainer have been the quickest Tigers picks the past two years, and now Yost joins a pack designed to deliver baseball’s biggest challenge: offense. The draft opened with a Sunday surprise: Oklahoma high school shortstop Eli Willits going to the Nationals at one-overall.

The Baltimore Orioles took Ike Irish 19th overall in the 2025 MLB Draft, giving Auburn baseball a first-round draftee for the first time since 2020.