The 2025 Rule 5 draft has wrapped up with 13 players selected in the MLB phase of the event.

Below, you can read our scouting report for each one of the MLB Rule 5 picks in order of their selection. You can find the complete draft results here.

1. Rockies — RJ Petit, RHP, Tigers

A 14th-round pick out of Charleston Southern in 2021, Petit reached Triple-A in 2025, racking up 20 appearances with Toledo. Over 47 total appearances split between Double-A and Triple-A, he pitched to a 2.44 ERA, 2.94 FIP and 3.35 xFIP. During his time in Triple-A, Petit continued to perform with a 2.74 ERA, 3.19 FIP and 3.18 xFIP while generating ground balls at a 51% rate. Most importantly, he collected strikeouts and limited walks, punching out 29.5% of batters faced while walking just 8.2%.

From a strictly performance-based evaluation, Petit checks a number of boxes. He strikes out batters, shows at least average command, has flashed the ability to generate ground balls at above-average rates and has a solid sample of Triple-A experience. That combination put him in a bucket better than 50% of potential Rule 5 picks.

Petit shows the prerequisite stuff to match his performance, mixing a four-seam fastball, sinker, slider and changeup. His four-seamer sits 95-97 mph and touches 98 at peak with six and a half feet of extension and 11-12 inches of armside run. His two-seamer sits 93-95 mph with true sink and heavy armside run, averaging 15-17 inches. Petit’s slider is his best bat-missing pitch, and despite its slider tag, it looks like a mid-80s deathball curveball with negative vertical break and about five inches of sweep. Petit’s changeup is used nearly 1:1 with his slider and features good vertical separation off his fastball, though it’s on the firmer side at 88 mph.

2. White Sox — Jedixson Paez, RHP, Red Sox

Paez has arguably the best control among the Rule 5-eligible pitchers. Nothing he throws is plus, but he locates his 91-92 mph fastball, curveball, sweeper and slider, while his mid-80s changeup is an above-average pitch with plenty of fade.

He missed much of 2025 because of a calf injury, which kept him from reaching Double-A. He went 0-3, 2.79 in 19 innings at High-A Salem in April and August. Paez could be more than a bulk-inning reliever if he gains a bit more velocity, but his control and varied arsenal gives him survival skills.

3. Nationals — Griff McGarry, RHP, Phillies

This was the second year in a row we’ve highlighted McGarry as a potential Rule 5 pick. Few pitchers in the minors have stuff on the level of McGarry. The Phillies righthander blows up our Stuff+ models with a 121 overall score and a 121 normalized Stuff+ score. His fastball, sweeper, slider and curveball all grade as above-average to plus pitches, per Stuff+.

Stuff aside, McGarry’s bigger question is about his ability to throw strikes with regularity. He posted the best walk rate of his career in 2025, walking 13.9% of batters he faced. It’s still 30-grade control, but he may have gotten to a point where he can be an effective one-inning option who airs it out coming out of the bullpen.

McGarry sits 94-95 mph on his fastball, touching 98 at peak with nearly seven feet of extension and a flat vertical approach angle. His sweeper is a 1/1 outlier, sitting 83-84 mph with an average of 16-17 inches of horizontal break to generate a 61% strike rate, 46% whiff rate and 41% chase rate.

4. Twins (traded to Giants) — Daniel Susac, C Athletics

The Athletics’ first-round pick in 2022, Susac hit .275/.349/.483 for Triple-A Las Vegas in 2025. That’s not as impressive as it may initially seem, however, due to the favorable hitting environment. The average Las Vegas hitter hit .288/.378/.467. But Susac is a solid hitter with one potentially fatal flaw—he doesn’t know when to keep the bat on his shoulder. He actually has solid bat control, but his 26.7% strikeout rate comes from his over-aggressiveness.

Defensively, he posted above-average pop times, and he’s an average blocker.

5. Pirates — Carter Baumler, RHP, Orioles

Over the last five years, injuries have limited Baumler to essentially one fully-healthy season. That came this year after he missed the second half of 2024 and the first month of the 2025 season recovering from a shoulder injury. Baumler worked regularly out of the bullpen throughout the season. However, he didn’t pitch on back-to-back days and tended to see 4-7 days of rest in between outings.

Baumler’s 2025 second half was outstanding, as he allowed just one run across his final 17.1 innings spanning 14 outings. In fact, post-promotion to Double-A Chesapeake, Baumler didn’t allow a run in his six appearances in the Eastern League spanning 7.2 innings. Over his strong second half, he struck out 25 batters while allowing six walks and seven hits. Batters hit just .125 against him during that stretch, and he ran a groundball rate north of 40%.

Beyond Baumler’s performance this season, his stuff has also made a full recovery. He mixes three pitches in a four-seam fastball, slider and curveball. His four-seamer sits 95-96 mph, touching 98 with elite vertical break, over 10 inches of armside run and an extremely flat vertical approach angle of -4.12. Baumler creates only fringy extension, but his lower arm slot and 5-foot-7 release height allow the plane on his fastball to play up.

Baumler’s primary secondary is his curveball. It sits 83-85 mph—plus velocity for a true curveball—with heavy two-plane break. He generates whiffs at a rate of 32% while running a 39% chase rate against the pitch. It’s a solid one-two combo of pitches that should consistently get results.

Per Evan Grant of the Dallas Morning News, Baumler is being traded to the Rangers.

8. Athletics (traded to Red Sox) — Ryan Watson, RHP, Giants

It’s been a long road to the majors for Watson, who was drafted by the Dodgers back in 2016 in a round that no longer exists (39th). He didn’t sign and made it to campus at Auburn, where he pitched primarily as a reliever over four seasons. After he went unselected in the five-round 2020 draft, Watson signed as an undrafted free agent with the Orioles. After four seasons with the Orioles, he was then traded to the Giants for cash considerations on August 9, 2024.

In 46 appearances with the Giants’ Triple-A affiliate in Sacramento, Watson pitched to a 4.26 ERA with 64 strikeouts over 50.2 innings pitched. He mixes a low-90s sinker, an upper-80s cutter, a mid-80s changeup and a low-80s sweeper. It’s a deep pitch mix for a reliever that throws lots of strikes.

11. Cardinals — Matt Pushard, RHP, Marlins

Pushard fit the Rule 5 target profile as a late-blooming, Triple-A-tested righthander coming off his age-27 season. He logged a 3.61 ERA with 73 strikeouts to 23 walks over 62.1 innings and held steady with a fastball that sat 94-96 mph and touched 97 while producing a 34% miss rate and 42% chase rate. He leans on a sweepy slider and a curveball with occasional changeups and cutters mixed in.

Pushard ended his year on a high note with 11.1 scoreless innings during Jacksonville’s run to a Triple-A title, reinforcing his appeal as a plug-and-play relief option.

20. Astros — Roddery Munoz, RHP, Reds

Signed by the Braves out of the Dominican Republic alongside his twin brother Rolddy Munoz, Roddery has spent time with both the Marlins and the Cardinals in each of the last two seasons. Over 93.2 MLB innings, Munoz owns a 6.73 ERA, 7.33 FIP and 6.96 xERA. During his time in the major leagues, he’s been hit hard, allowing 30 total home runs. He spent the majority of the 2025 season with the Cardinals’ Triple-A affiliate in Memphis, making 38 appearances and pitching to a 3.28 ERA with a 30.8% strikeout rate.

Munoz mixes five pitches in an upper-80s slider, low-90s cutter, mid-90s sinker and four-seam fastball and an occasional changeup. His sinker and slider both grade as above-average pitches in Stuff models and the usage backs that. 

21. Guardians — Peyton Pallette, RHP, White Sox

Once upon a time, Pallette was considered a potential top 10 draft pick entering his junior season at Arkansas. Instead, he had Tommy John surgery in 2022 and missed all of his draft-eligible season, leading the White Sox to draft him in the second round and sign him for $1.5 million.

In 2024, the White Sox moved Pallette to the bullpen, where he’s found success over the last two seasons. The righthander reached Triple-A in 2025, making 36 appearances with Charlotte and pitching to a 4.36 ERA with 54 strikeouts across 43.1 innings.

Pallette might be an easy plug-and-play option for a team looking for upside arms in the bullpen. He mixes a mid-90s four-seam fastball that misses bats with a high-spin, two-plane curveball, a mid-80s slurvy slider and a mid-80s changeup with good vertical separation off his fastball.

27. Blue Jays — Spencer Miles, RHP, Giants

A 2022 fourth-round pick out of Missouri, Miles has pitched just 14.2 total professional innings in four seasons. He missed all of 2023 with a lumbar facet joint injury and returned in 2024. But after 7.1 innings Miles, tore his UCL and had Tommy John surgery in June 2024. He missed all of 2025 and is expected to return in 2026 fully healthy.

When he’s on the mound, Miles shows off a powerful pitch mix led by four-seam and sinking fastballs in the mid 90s. He backs them with a nasty, downer curveball with 11-to-5 shape that he can bury for chases at the end of at-bats. He also has a changeup, but it mostly takes a back seat to the rest of his mix.

Miles pounded the zone in the Arizona Fall League, punching out a dozen and walking just one. His delivery is effortful, and scouts in the AFL noted that he sometimes had trouble driving the ball down through the zone and that his current mechanics might put undue amounts of stress on his shoulder.

28. Yankees — Cade Winquest, RHP, Cardinals

The Cardinals drafted Winquest out of UT-Arlington in the eighth round of the 2022 draft. Over three full professional seasons, he has worked primarily as a starter. In 2025, he split his season between High-A Peoria and Double-A Springfield, making 23 starts and pitching to a 3.99 ERA with 110 strikeouts to 39 walks over 106 innings pitched.

Winquest shows a good blend of control, swing-and-miss stuff and an ability to generate ground balls at nearly a 50% rate. He throws five pitches: a four-seam fastball, curveball, cutter, sweeper and changeup. Winquest’s fastball sits 94-96 mph, touching 98 at peak with above-average extension, good fastball plane and some cut. His upper-70s curveball is his best swing-and-miss pitch. It has two-plane shape and Winquest shows the ability to land it in the zone for whiffs. His high-80s cutter and low-80s sweeper provide him a trio of breaking ball shapes. His changeup, however, is rarely thrown and not a major part of his arsenal.

29. Phillies — Zach McCambley, RHP, Marlins

McCambley’s raw stuff is modest, but his performance in the upper minors in 2025 were intriguing.

The 6-foot-2 righty, a 2020 third-round pick from Coastal Carolina, turned in a 2.90 ERA with 83 strikeouts and 22 walks over 62 innings, including a 3.32 ERA in 40.2 Triple-A frames. His mid-80s slider was the centerpiece, showing sweep and producing a 51% miss rate with a 34% chase rate, while a high-80s cutter added another bat-missing option with a 34% whiff rate. He also mixed in a four-seam fastball that reached 97 mph but typically sat 93-95 with limited carry.

McCambley’s 33.1% strikeout rate was a career high while his 8.8% walk rate marked the lowest since the 26-year-old’s debut season in 2021.

32. White Sox — Alexander Alberto, RHP, Rays

Signed out of the Dominican Republic in November 2019, Alberto has only reached High-A. He spent three seasons in the Florida Complex League, finally earning a promotion to Low-A in 2024.

Alberto has been a tremendous performer the last two seasons across both levels of A-ball. Over 16 appearances in 2024 with Low-A Charleston, he pitched to a 1.59 ERA, striking out 23.3% of batters faced while walking 11.1%. Across 48.2 innings primarily in High-A this year, he struck out 30.6% of opposing hitters while walking 10%. His 2.87 FIP and 3.18 xFIP support his 2.59 ERA, and he generated ground balls at a rate of 54.4% in 2025.

Where Alberto really stands out is with his pitch mix, as has a cache of desirable traits. He throws a true cut-fastball that sits 97-99 mph and touches 101.4 with just a hair under seven feet of extension on average. He commands his fastball well (56.1% zone rate) and generates high rates of whiffs in-zone. His primary secondary is a sweepy, mid-to-high-80s slider with a little drop and 5-10 inches of horizontal break, as Alberto shows the ability to manipulate the pitch.

Alberto shows true swing-and-miss stuff running a swinging-strike rate of 15.67% in 2025. His combination of whiffs and ground balls give him true versatility in getting outs.