Major League Baseball announced that the draft lottery for the 2023 amateur draft will be held on December 6th during the Winter Meetings. The event will be broadcast on MLB Network as a half hour show. This is the first year of the draft lottery.
The Pittsburgh Pirates finished with the third worst record in baseball during the 2022 season, which gives them the best odds in this draft. The worst three teams all have a 16.5% chance of getting the first overall pick. The lottery only includes the teams that missed the playoffs this year, and just the first six picks are being decided by the lottery.
That all means that the Pirates will find out that day if they are picking as high as first overall, with the outside possibility that they pick ninth overall, with anything in between also being possible. The Washington Nationals and Oakland A’s each have 16.5% chance odds of getting the first pick as well, while the lowest odds belong to the Milwaukee Brewers, who have a 0.2% chance shot of the first pick. The bottom six teams all have odds under 1%.
