MLB Draft Lottery Results: Pirates Win No. 1 pick originally appeared on NBC Sports Philadelphia
Pittsburgh Buccaneers earn No. 1 pick A former MLB draft lottery.
Pittsburgh received the No. 1 pick in the 2023 MLB Draft via baseball’s inaugural draft lottery Tuesday night.
The event, held during the Winter Conference in San Diego, gave all 18 non-playoff teams from last season a chance at the No. 1 pick.
This will be the sixth time Pittsburgh has selected the No. 1 overall. The last time the Buccaneers did so was in 2021, when they drafted receiver Henry Davis with the No. 1 pick. 16.5%. The Nationals, who have the worst record in MLB in 2022, got the second pick, while the A’s dropped to sixth.
The Detroit Tigers are in sixth per cent at [7.5], moving up three spots into the top three.
Two teams jumped into the top six, with the Texas Rangers going from seventh to fourth. Meanwhile, the Minnesota Twins made the biggest leap from No. 13 to No. 5. Minnesota has only a 1.7 percent chance of getting the No. 5 pick.
Only the top 6 picks are determined by the lottery, the rest of the top 18 picks are in the reverse order of the lottery regular season rankings.
Here are the top 18 picks in the 2023 draft, scheduled for July in Seattle:
1. Pittsburgh Pirates
2. Washington Nationals
3. Detroit Tigers
4. Texas Rangers
5. Minnesota Twins
6. Oakland A’s
7. Cincinnati Reds
8. Kansas City Royals
9. Colorado Rockies
10 . Miami Marlins
11. Los Angeles Angels
12. Arizona Diamondbacks
13. Chicago Cubs
14. Boston Red Sox
15. Chicago White Sox
16. San Francisco Giants
17. Baltimore Orioles
18. Milwaukee Brewers
