And on the second day, the Mets went for pitching.

The 2025 Major League Baseball Draft concluded in Atlanta on Monday with the final 17 of the 20 rounds and the Mets selected 14 pitchers. There were 12 righthanders and a pair of lefties. There were 10 from Division I colleges, one from Division II and three high schoolers.

“We were fortunate enough to take a blend of big projection [high school righthanders] with some fastballs and some ‘plus’ secondary options and then some college guys with some electricity in their arms,” Mets vice president for amateur scouting Kris Gross said. “Didn't go into the day [planning a] majority of pitching, but sometimes that's how it works out and excited about the crop we were able to grab.”

Their first pick of the day was high school righthander Peter Kussow from Arrowhead Union (Wisc.) in the fourth round. And the Mets sound like they can sign the Louisville commit.

“[He] throws hard, throws strikes and then he has a really good slider that every guy that we sent in to see him was raving about,” Gross said. “If the high school pitcher’s there and there’s deals willing to be made, then you take the high school pitcher . . . He wanted to go out and play for us, so we're excited to have him.”

With the next two picks, the Mets took a pair of righthanders that are coming back from elbow surgeries. Peyton Prescott of Florida State went in the fifth round and Nathan Hall from Division II Central Missouri in the sixth. The Mets may be hoping their situations make them more affordable as they have just a $5.5 million bonus pool, second least among the 30 MLB teams.

“If they bounce back, return to form? What they're doing prior to the surgery was very enticing,” Gross said. “Who knows? Maybe they go a little higher in the draft [if] they're fully healthy.”

Prescott could throw his fastball over 100 mph before he got hurt. Hall threw in the high 90s.

“All those injuries are risky so, obviously, we're taking a chance and hoping that the player comes back to form,” Mets director of amateur scouting Drew Toussaint said. “Especially with Prescott and Hall, before they got hurt, they were electric.”

These were the Mets’ other selections from the first 10 rounds, in order beginning with the seventh round: righthanded pitcher Cam Tilly from Auburn; righthanded pitcher Camden Lohman from Fort Zumwalt North High School (Mo.); shortstop Anthony Frobose from Lakeland High School (NY); and righthanded pitcher Tyler McLaughlin from Georgia.

With their final 10 picks, the Mets took, in order: outfielder Wyatt Vincent from Nixa High School (Mo.); righthanded pitcher Truman Pauley from Harvard; righthanded pitcher Frank Camarillo from UC-Santa Barbara; righthanded pitcher James Smith IV from Memphis; lefthanded pitcher Connor Ware from LSU; righthanded pitcher Zack Mack from Loyola Marymount; shortstop Sam Robertson from Northwest Shoals CC (Ala.); righthanded pitcher Dillon Stiltner from Trinity Christian School (Ga.); lefthanded pitcher Joe Scarborough from Jacksonville State (Ala.); and righthanded pitcher Garrett Stratton from Rice.