Here are Twins' Draft picks from Day 2

MINNEAPOLIS -- As Day 2 of the 2025 MLB Draft got under way on Monday, the Twins began to establish a pattern with their picks. After two of the club’s four Day 1 selections on Sunday were big hard-throwing right-handers, Minnesota added two more players with that profile to start Monday’s haul.

That remained the order of much of the day, but it wasn’t the only theme. Other recurring patterns included a heavy emphasis on college players in general, a number of players from northeastern schools or northeastern backgrounds, and quite a few pitchers whose potential outstrips their college numbers.

“We’re looking for pitchers that we can unlock a few more things,” said vice president of amateur scouting Sean Johnson. “Whether that’s with them physically or with pitch shapes. And usually the foundation of that is, can they start a game? Do they have the chance to be starting pitchers? … That’s our plan from round 1 to 20, is if you squint hard enough, do they have a chance to be starting pitchers?”

In total they selected 13 pitchers among their 21 picks, and 18 of the 21 came from four-year colleges. Every pick after the sixth round was drafted out of a four-year college.

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Here’s a rundown of the Twins’ Day 2 picks:

Jason Reitz, RHP

• Round 4 (No. 119 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: University of Oregon
• Calling Card: He’s tall. Really tall. Reitz stands 6-foot-11, cutting a striking profile on the mound. He can reach 97-98 mph with his fastball, but he leans more on a cutter, and he also throws a slider and changeup. Reitz transferred from St. Mary’s to Oregon and began the year as a reliever, but thrived once he moved into the rotation for the Ducks. He ended the year by striking out 14 in a start in the Eugene Regional.
• Quote: "He has a good delivery for his size. He’s a solid athlete. It’s very hard to keep your delivery together when you’re that tall, but we’ve seen him do it. We believe there’s enough athlete in there to do more things with his pitches and the way he uses them in a game.” -- Johnson

Matt Barr, RHP

• Round 5 (No. 149 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: SUNY-Niagara (Sanborn, N.Y.)
• Calling Card: A very projectable pitcher, and another big guy with a big arm. Barr can hit 97 mph with his fastball, and has elite spin on both his curveball and his slider. A first-year junior college pitcher, he has a commitment to attend Tennessee next spring, so he could be a tough sign, but Barr is a very intriguing prospect.
• Quote: “Matty is easily the most talented pitcher I’ve ever coached.” -- Matt Clingersmith, Barr’s SUNY-Niagara coach, to the Buffalo News

Bruin Agbayani, SS

• Round 6 (No. 179 overall)
• Bats/throws: L/R
• School: St. Louis School (Honolulu, Hawaii)
• Calling Card: Yep, he’s Benny’s son. But the younger Agbayani is a different player from his dad in multiple ways. To start with, he’s taller and he hits left-handed. But like dad, he has the ability to put bat to ball, with the hit tool being his best quality. He’s a decent runner, probably an outfielder in the long term, and he’s committed to Michigan.
• Quote: “He is better than me. Growing up, he has been around the game. He has a lot of resources. He has a lot of my friends -- people that could guide him, give him advice. That’s the great part of this game.” -- Benny Agbayani on Bruin, to MLB.com’s Bill Ladson in 2024

Jacob McCombs, OF

• Round 7 (No. 209 overall)
• Bats/throws: L/R
• School: University of California-Irvine
• Calling Card: McCombs is a type of hitter you don’t see much of in the Twins’ system. He’s an aggressive hitter with an outstanding ability to make contact, which is not a profile the organization has much of. McCombs had a big year at Irvine after transferring from San Diego State, earning first-team All-Big West recognition. He’s a Draft-eligible sophomore, which means he has leverage.
• Quote: “I think it’s his ability to play different positions, the versatility that he has. Putting his whole tool set together makes him an intriguing pick.” -- Johnson

Ryan Sprock, 3B

• Round 8 (No. 239 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: Elon University (Elon, N.C.)
• Calling Card: Talk about doing it all. Sprock primarily played third base for the Phoenix this past year, but he also made 15 appearances as a relief pitcher. He’s played first and second base in college, and was a two-way player in the Cape Cod League. The Twins drafted Sprock as a third baseman, and his numbers at Elon make it clear his future is as a hitter. He topped a .400 on-base percentage in each of his three college seasons, and swatted 14 homers in 2025.

Justin Mitrovich, RHP

• Round 9 (No. 269 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: Elon University (Elon, N.C.)
• Calling Card: A three-year member of the rotation at Elon, Mitrovich was a freshman All-American in 2023 and he has amassed 42 starts and 233 innings as a college pitcher. He also pitched in the Cape Cod League last summer.
• Quote: “I know what a really good changeup looks like over my time and he is up there with the best of them,” -- Elon head coach Mike Kennedy, to the Elon News Network

Shai Robinson, SS

• Round 10 (No. 299 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: Illinois State University
• Calling Card: Robinson has the strike-zone judgment the Twins love. A three-year letterman for the Redbirds, Robinson took over as the starting shortstop as a junior and posted a .269/.408/.462 line that earned him all-Missouri Valley honorable mention. He walked more than he struck out in both 2024 and ‘25, and did the same in both of his stints in the summer wood-bat Northwoods League.

Ryan Daniels, 2B

• Round 11 (No. 329 overall)
• Bats/throws: L/R
• School: University of Connecticut
• Calling Card: Big, big production. Daniels, who missed much of the 2024 season due to injury, was the Big East player of the year in 2025 after posting a sensational .365/.476/.744 line with 18 homers, 75 RBIs, 10 steals and 69 runs in 54 games for the Huskies. He had very close to a 1:1 strikeout to walk rate and just generally did about everything you can do offensively.
• Quote: “I don’t think he just deserves to be drafted. I think he deserves to be taken in the top five rounds. That hit tool that he has is very rare. He loves to play. He has an unbelievable personality and vibrance to him. Everyone is drawn to him, because he has a real dynamism that I put a really high value on.” -- UConn head coach Jim Penders, to CT Insider

Kolten Smith, RHP

• Round 12 (No. 359 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: University of Georgia
• Calling Card: Smith is an experienced right hander, who made 18 starts and 29 relief appearances for UGA over three years. He has chalked up huge strikeout rates, with more than 12 per nine innings, but also high walk and home run totals. He was considered a potential Day 1 pick entering the season but scuffled some this year, and his stock fell.
• Quote: “He has worked really hard to continue to mentally strengthen himself and his game. To not give up and keep working hard and fighting.” -- Smith’s mom, Bonnie, to the Athens Banner-Herald

Callan Fang, RHP

• Round 13 (No. 389 overall)
• Bats/throws: L/R
• School: Harvard University
• Calling Card: Fang spent most of two seasons in the Crimson’s starting rotation and was Ivy League pitcher of the year in 2024. He followed that up with a second-team All-Ivy selection in ’25 and also had a successful stint in the Cape Cod League in ’24.
• Quote: “If you get into the northern climates, and you don’t travel south that much, or in a smaller conference, those things can help us. It goes back to our area scouts turning over every stone in their territory to make sure that they’ve gotten the amount of looks we need to get.” -- Johnson

Merit Jones, RHP

• Round 14 (No. 419 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: University of Utah
• Calling Card: If Jones’ name sounds familiar, there’s a reason for that. The Twins drafted him last year, too. He elected to return to school and spent another year in the Utes’ starting rotation, ranking fifth in the Big 12 in innings pitched in the regular season. He’s been durable, making 40 starts over three years, and has put up strong numbers in summer collegiate leagues even as his numbers in the altitude at Utah have at times been shaky.
• Quote: “We don’t hang onto ERA like we might’ve done 20 years ago. We’re looking into more, we’re looking at FIP. This guy has pitches, you can’t always rely on … you don’t have a feel for the defense behind this guy that’s throwing the ball. So we kind of rinse that out more than we used to. We’re looking at stuff quality and more those results than just looking at an ERA and saying it’s good or bad.” -- Johnson

Reed Moring, RHP

• Round 15 (No. 449 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: UC Santa Barbara
• Calling Card: A teammate of No. 2 overall pick Tyler Bremner, Moring dealt with injury this year but was effective when he pitched. He posted a 2.55 ERA in 17 2/3 innings for the Gauchos, and then made three starts for Cotuit in the Cape Cod League this summer. He’s only thrown 100 innings in college.

Jonathan Stevens, RHP

• Round 16 (No. 479 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: University of Alabama
• Calling Card: Didn’t pitch at Alabama, but put up good numbers in the Cape Cod League and got on the radar.

JP Smith II, 3B

• Round 17 (No. 509 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: Sacramento State
• Calling Card: Dingers. Smith hit 48 in three seasons at Sac State, including an eye-popping 22 as a sophomore in 2024. He posted a lifetime .581 slugging percentage in college. Though his homer total dropped some as a junior, he also reined in his strikeouts and still managed to be a productive hitter overall.
• Quote: “It’s just the overall impact he might have, looking at his years and combining them. Trying to make sense of why it was better or worse is something that we do with every player. We think there’s just more in there.” -- Johnson

Matthew Dalquist, RHP

• Round 18 (No. 539 overall)
• Bats/throws: S/R
• School: UC-San Diego
• Calling Card: First and foremost, Dalquist is a strike thrower, having walked a total of 30 batters in 154 innings over his last two seasons at UCSD. His brother Andrew pitches in the White Sox system. Dalquist is a redshirt sophomore after missing the entire 2023 season due to injury.

Matthew Becker, LHP

• Round 19 (No. 569 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/L
• School: University of South Carolina
• Calling Card: A senior who pitched four years at South Carolina, Becker is the only lefty pitcher the Twins drafted this year. He pitched both as a starter and in relief, and racked up big strikeout (12.2 per nine innings career) and walk (4.7 per nine) numbers in his time in the Southeastern Conference.

Michael Hilker, RHP

• Round 20 (No. 599 overall)
• Bats/throws: R/R
• School: University of Arizona
• Calling Card: Hilker was an All-American at Division III Wisconsin-Whitewater, and after two years there he decided to try his luck in D1 at Arizona. He struck out 27 against just four walks, pitching mostly in relief, and followed that with a solid showing in the New England Collegiate League this summer.