Technically, the 2025 MLB season will begin Tuesday morning at 6am ET as the Los Angeles Dodgers and Chicago Cubs square off in a two-game series in Japan, but for most fantasy baseball leagues, there is still time to draft. 

The States-side Opening Day takes place on Thursday, March 27 and statistics from the Japan series will be back-dated into your league’s scoring. As a result, we’re still talking fantasy baseball ADP movement and we’re still testing out a variety of draft strategies through fantasy baseball mock drafts.

 

 

 

2025 MLB Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft: 10-Team, 5x5 Roto

As a subscriber to the Fantasy Alarm Fantasy Baseball Draft Guide, you’ve probably already read the write-up for our 12-team mock draft which was filled with a variety of industry experts. This time around, we wanted to bring in a number of #FAmily members to try and give a look at what a potential draft board could look like for your home league. 

We even dropped it down to a 10-team league as many of you have told us what your home leagues look like. Yes, there are still a few of the Fantasy Alarm analysts in there as well, but even I, who had the first pick overall, drafted differently just to give you an alternative look.

 

 

 

MLB Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft 2025 Format & Scoring

  • 10 teams, 29 rounds, snake draft
  • 5x5 roto scoring
    • Hitting Categories: AVG, HR, RBI, runs scored, SB
    • Pitching Categories: Wins, K, WHIP, ERA, Saves
  • Starting Rosters: 2 C, 1 1B, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 SS, 1 MI, 1 CI, 5 OF, 1 UT, 9 Pitchers
  • Bench: 6 players

Our Fantasy Baseball Mock Drafters (In Draft Order)

  1. Howard Bender – Fantasy Alarm
  2. Colby Conway – Fantasy Alarm
  3. Seven! – Mike G. 
  4. Jon Impemba – Fantasy Alarm
  5. Swingin’ Bunts – George W.
  6. Dan Malin – Fantasy Alarm
  7. The Cap – Ramon H.
  8. Bobby Baseball – Bobby K.
  9. Boss315 – Tim W.
  10. Rich C. – Rich C.

 

 

 

2025 Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft Board – March 13

The final fantasy baseball mock draft results board is pasted below, but you can also CLICK HERE to open up a new window for easier reference.

Such a beautiful board, right? Big shout-out to our friends over on RT Sports for hosting. Now let’s see what we can learn from this MLB fantasy baseball mock draft.

 

 

 

10-Team Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft Results & Strategy

Quite the interesting draft. That’s my initial hot take. I’ve done a number of 12 and 15-teamers over the past few weeks but this was my first 10-teamer. And while I don’t normally play in leagues this shallow (not trying to be a snob – it’s just the way these industry leagues go), this was a good warm-up for me as I did actually commit to a friend’s 10-team league this season. 

Coming into this draft, the obvious thought is just how deep the player pool will be, especially when it comes to pitching. However, I needed to change tactics for a league this size as you still want to be able to compete with the few teams who do opt to go pitching-heavy. Fewer teams means the high-end pitching does have an advantage with regard to strikeouts and you don’t want to fall too far behind.

So rather than go six rounds without a starter like I did last time, I grabbed a couple of early starters (Dylan Cease & Blake Snell) just to keep pace. Colby Conway, Jon Impemba and even Ramon went heavy on the hitting, so I expect to have a little bit of an edge in pitching categories than them, so long as everyone stays healthy.

As for the rest of my team, I’ve got saves covered well to cap off the pitching and I’ve got great power and speed on the offensive front. It’s always tough to judge how you stack up, offensively, with everyone else in a 10-teamer as everyone has full-time players across the board, but as I’ve been known to say, this is a team with which I’d be happy to go to war. 

Amazing power, really strong speed and I dig my pitching. What more could you want from a mock draft? Not as much audience-participation in this draft, but here are some thoughts shared with me.

 

 

 

From Colby Conway…

It's always fun to look at teams from a 10-team league after doing a lot of 15-team drafts. I continued my wait on pitching philosophy, and tried to extend it a bit further in this one, not taking my first pitcher until my 10th round selection! My offense is loaded with a ton of power with a lot of my early selections, and middle-to-late round picks of Pete Crow-Armstrong, Josh Lowe, Jackson Holliday, and Zack Gelof to help in the speed department. 

For waiting until the 10th round to take my first pitcher, my top four starters of Pablo Lopez, Aaron Nola, Bailey Ober, and Shane McClanahan is a competent group with which to head into battle. I have two top-12 closers in Andres Munoz and Trevor Megill, and an upside flier on Tyler Holton. In a shallower league, my pitching staff may lack true star power, but there's a very real possibility I nabbed four top-30 starters, which would be incredible value.

I love my team, but the only thing I wish I could have seen live was the pure disgust in Howard Bender's face after I took his precious Matt McLain and Junior Caminero right before him.

[Author’s Note: Colby’s a jerk.]

 

 

 

From Bobby K. Of BobbyBaseball…

How many times can a fantasy owner roll the dice in one 10-team draft?  "An uncomfortable amount" would be the correct answer here.  After being invited to join this March 13th mock draft, I felt myself feeling somewhat confident with my 8th overall pick, as that is when I typically like to pick in standard 10/12 team leagues.  

Yet in this draft, my inner gambler took over soon after the first few rounds selections of Mookie Betts, Francisco Lindor and Austin Riley (who some would consider a risk as well coming back from injury-- but you'll soon notice this to be a familiar theme).

My pitching selections also followed the Kenny Rogers Gambler theme soon after the Cole Ragans and Michael King selections.  All in all I felt pretty confident (perhaps foolishly) with the level of gambles taken here on the likes of injury prone/recovery players such as Ozzie Albies, Jacob deGrom, Byron Buxton, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Mike Trout, Vinnie Pasquantino, Zach Neto, Spencer Strider and my forever man-crushes of Royce Lewis and Garrett Mitchell.  

If this season were to play out, this squad would have a decent chance of setting the league on fire either in success or misery.  Either way, I enjoyed my first cup of coffee in a Fantasy Alarm Mock Draft – looking forward to the next one.