With their seventh-round selection in the 2025 MLB Draft, the 223rd overall pick, the Mets selected Cam Tilly, a right-handed pitcher from Auburn University.
Right-handed pitcher Cam Tilly dominated in baseball while attending Castle High School in Newburgh, Indiana. Throwing a fastball that touched the mid-90s and pairing it with a great slider and decent curveball and changeup, he posted a 0.51 ERA and struck out 225 batters over the course of the three years he played varsity baseball for the Knights. Additionally, he was a star quarterback as well, though he gave up football during his junior season of school to focus on baseball, more specifically, to have time to play for the U18 USA National Team. Considered one of the best players in Indiana available in the 2023 MLB Draft, and among the upper echelons of high school pitchers, there where whispers that the right-hander might get picked as a mid-Day 2 overslot prepster, but his name was never called. As such, Tilly honored his commitment to Auburn University.
The right-hander appeared in 14 games for the Tigers in 2024 and posted a 6.29 ERA in 24.1 innings, allowing 20 hits, walking 14, and striking out 27. That summer, he played for the Falmouth Commodores of the Cape Cod Collegiate Summer League and appeared in three games, allowing 5 earned runs in 3.2 innings with 3 hits, 4 walks, and 1 strikeout. Returning to Auburn in 2025, the 21-year-old draft-eligible sophomore appeared in 19 games, making 6 starts, and posted a 5.48 ERA in 46.0 innings, allowing 33 hits, walking 29, and striking out 58.
The 6’2”, 205-pound right-hander throws from a three-quarter arm slot, dropping-and-driving off the mound and flattening his vertical approach angle. There is a bit of crossfire in his delivery and throwing across his body has not helped his control and command, an already spotty issue for Tilly.
The 21-year-old’s fastball sits in the mid-90s and tops out as high as 97 MPH. The pitch has a high spin rate and has been measured producing above-average induced vertical break numbers thanks to his relatively flat VAA. He pairs it with a slider, splitter and curveball, the former of which is an above-average offering. It sits in the low-80s and has been measured at over 3000 RPM, giving it late gyroscopic break that tunnels extremely well with his fastball. His curveball has also flashed high RPM measurements, but the upper-70s offering lacks the bite that his slider has. His splitter, which sits in the low-to-mid-80s, has good tumble, but the right-hander struggles to control it more than his other secondary pitches.