2023 MLB Draft Lottery: How to Watch, How it Works

It's officially the busiest week of the MLB offseason. Executives, players and agents are huddled in Nashville for the annual Winter Meetings. While the main event at in Music City is free agency, there are still plenty of other acts on the schedule -- including the MLB Draft Lottery. The order for the 2024 MLB Draft will be determined on Tuesday,…

Major League Baseball held its first ever Draft Lottery on Tuesday night at the Winter Meetings in San Diego, California. As part of the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the first six picks in the 2023 MLB Draft were awarded to teams through a lottery system. The Pittsburgh Pirates, after finishing 62-100 this past season, secured the No.…

The Pittsburgh Pirates won baseball's first draft lottery Tuesday night and will get the first pick of eligible amateur players in July. The Toronto Blue Jays will select No. 20 overall. The Pittsburgh Pirates won baseball's first draft lottery Tuesday night and will get the first pick of eligible amateur players in July. The Washington Nationals…

MLB's inaugural Draft Lottery took place Tuesday from the Winter Meetings in San Diego. The NBA and NHL also have a lottery system, so it's not an unfamiliar concept, but it is new to baseball. The differences lie with how many spots are determined: baseball's lottery determines the first six spots in the 2023 MLB Draft. All 18 teams that failed to…

Major League Baseball held the first ever draft lottery on Tuesday night. The Cincinnati Reds entered the lottery with the 4th best odds of landing the top pick in the draft at 13.2%, trailing the Nationals, Athletics, and Pirates who all have a 16.5% chance of landing the #1 pick. The lottery has 18 teams in it, but only the first six picks are…

Will the ping pong balls bounce in the Cubs' favor? The odds are long. MLB is holding its inaugural draft lottery Tuesday at the Winter Meetings, a system that will determine which teams make the first six selections in the 2023 MLB Draft. Here's how it works and how the Cubs fit in: - The 18 non-playoff teams from 2022 have odds ranging from 0.2…

It's time for the first ever MLB draft lottery. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft will finally be awarded at MLB's inaugural draft lottery on Tuesday. The top overall draft selection had previously been given to the team that finished with the worst record. But the new collective bargaining agreement struck ahead of the 2022 campaign called…

Baseball fans will witness the first MLB Draft lottery in history on December 6. The order of the top 18 picks will be determined at the Winter Meetings in San Diego on Tuesday, with the Washington Nationals, Pittsburgh Pirates, and Oakland Athletics sitting atop the board with the highest percentage to land the top pick of the…

The first-ever MLB draft lottery will be held Tuesday and the Red Sox - as a result of their poor play in 2022 - actually have a slight chance to land the No. 1 overall pick in next year's draft. To combat tanking, MLB's latest collective bargaining agreement instituted a new draft lottery that will determine the top six picks in each year's draft.…

Once general managers arrived in Las Vegas this week for their annual meetings, Major League Baseball set some odds for its first-ever amateur draft lottery. MLB announced on Monday that the lottery will take place on December 6 at the Winter Meetings in San Diego. Here's a quick breakdown of what you need to know: The order of the first six picks…

2023 MLB Draft Lottery odds, how it works originally appeared on NBC Sports Chicago For years, the NBA and NHL have set the top of their draft orders through a lottery system. And Major League Baseball is about to do the same. The new MLB collective bargaining agreement struck ahead of the 2022 campaign called for a draft lottery beginning in 2023.…

For years, the NBA and NHL have set the top of their draft orders through a lottery system. And Major League Baseball is about to do the same. The new MLB collective bargaining agreement struck ahead of the 2022 campaign called for a draft lottery beginning in 2023. The change was made to discourage tanking, as finishing with one of the worst…

Will the ping pong balls bounce in the Cubs' favor? The odds are long. MLB is holding its inaugural draft lottery Tuesday at the Winter Meetings, a system that will determine which teams make the first six selections in the 2023 MLB Draft. Here's how it works and how the Cubs fit in: - The 18 non-playoff teams from 2022 have odds ranging from 0.2…

It's time for the first ever MLB draft lottery. The No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 draft will finally be awarded at MLB's inaugural draft lottery on Tuesday. The top overall draft selection had previously been given to the team that finished with the worst record. But the new collective bargaining agreement struck ahead of the 2022 campaign called…

The Pittsburgh Pirates secured the No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB draft in the league's first-ever draft lottery on Tuesday night. Here are the remaining teams that will pick in the top 18: 2. Washington Nationals 3. Detroit Tigers 4. Texas Rangers 5. Minnesota Twins 6. Oakland Athletics 7. Cincinnati Reds 8. Kansas City Royals 9. Colorado Rockies 10.…

The Pittsburgh Pirates have won the first-ever MLB draft lottery. Pittsburgh was awarded the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB Draft through baseball's inaugural draft lottery on Tuesday night. The event was held at the Winter Meetings in San Diego. This will be Pittsburgh's sixth time selecting first overall. The Pirates most recently did so in…

Welcome to the inaugural MLB draft lottery. The Detroit Tigers have the sixth-best odds to land the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft during the league's first-ever draft lottery Tuesday night, which will determine the order for the first six spots. The Tigers were a large disappointment in 2022, finishing 66-96, for their sixth consecutive…

Tennessee baseball's Tony Vitello on how Chase Dollander is handling MLB Draft attentionTennessee baseball's Chase Dollander is projected as the potential No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB Draft. Welcome to the inaugural MLB draft lottery. The Detroit Tigers have the sixth-best odds to land the No. 1 overall pick in the 2023 MLB draft during the…

SAN DIEGO - The first-ever MLB draft lottery took place during the winter meetings Tuesday at the Manchester Grand Hyatt in San Diego, and the Detroit Tigers received the No. 3 overall pick in 2023 edition of the amateur draft. The Tigers, the sixth-worst team in baseball last season, moved up three spots from their pre-lottery odds. The Pittsburgh…

The inaugural MLB Draft Lottery ensured that all non-playoff teams would have a chance to receive the highest picks in the following year's Draft -- and no team benefited from the newly structured rules more than the Twins. Minnesota entered Tuesday night with the 13th-best odds in the Lottery -- and emerged with the No. 5 overall pick. That…