It’s formally the busiest week of the MLB offseason.

Executives, gamers and brokers are huddled in Nashville for the annual Winter Meetings. While the primary occasion at in Music City is free company, there are nonetheless loads of different acts on the schedule — together with the MLB Draft Lottery.

The order for the 2024 MLB Draft will probably be decided on Tuesday, with all groups who missed the 2023 postseason eligible to obtain the highest choose.

Here’s all the data you want to know for the draft lottery:

What is the MLB Draft Lottery?

Like the NBA and NHL, a lottery is used to find out the highest picks in every MLB Draft. So, relatively than simply utilizing the reverse order of the standings from the earlier 12 months, groups have much less incentive to deliberately tank video games.

How does the MLB Draft Lottery work?

The high six picks within the MLB Draft are set by the lottery.

All non-playoff groups have an opportunity to obtain a top-six choose, with odds reducing as you progress up the standings. The odds for the three worst groups are an identical, a rule that was made to discourage tanking.

Once the highest six picks are decided, the remaining non-playoff groups will ordered by inverse standings (worst remaining non-playoff crew will get the No. 7 choose, greatest remaining non-playoff crew will get the No. 18 choose). Playoff groups are ordered by once they had been eradicated, with the Miami Marlins selecting nineteenth and the World Series champion Texas Rangers selecting thirtieth.

When was the primary MLB Draft Lottery?

The first MLB Draft Lottery was held final 12 months when the Pittsburgh Pirates had been awarded the highest choose. The lottery was applied below the brand new collective bargaining settlement, which went into place in 2022 after a three-month lockout.

MLB Draft Lottery full odds, draft order for 2024

Here are the percentages for every non-playoff crew to win the draft lottery:

1. Oakland Athletics (50-112), 18.3%

2. Kansas City Royals (56-106), 18.3%

3. Colorado Rockies (59-103), 18.3%

4. Chicago White Sox (61-101), 14.7%

5. St. Louis Cardinals (71-91), 8.3%

6. Los Angeles Angels (73-89), 6.1%

7. New York Mets (75-87), 4.3%

8. Pittsburgh Pirates (76-86), 3.0%

9. Cleveland Guardians (76-86), 2.0%

10. Detroit Tigers (78-84), 1.6%

11. Boston Red Sox (78-84), 1.2%

12. San Francisco Giants (79-83), 1.0%

13. Cincinnati Reds (82-80), 0.9%

14. San Diego Padres (82-80), 0.7%

15. New York Yankees (82-80), 0.6%

16. Chicago Cubs (83-79), 0.4%

17. Seattle Mariners (88-74), 0.2%

18. Washington Nationals (71-91), 0.0%

The Nationals, regardless of ending tied for the fifth-worst file, are ineligible to win the draft lottery as a result of they’re a “payor club.” That means the membership gave income sharing {dollars} relatively than receiving, so they don’t seem to be allowed to be chosen in consecutive lotteries (they earned the No. 2 choose in 2023). The Nationals can not obtain higher than the tenth choose below the CBA guidelines.

Here are the remaining first-round picks, which have already been set (groups eradicated in the identical spherical sorted by revenue-sharing standing):

19. Miami Marlins (.519 profitable proportion), wild card elimination

20. Milwaukee Brewers (.568), wild card elimination

21. Tampa Bay Rays (.611), wild card elimination

22. Toronto Blue Jays (.549), wild card elimination

23. Minnesota Twins (.537), division sequence elimination

24. Baltimore Orioles (.623), division sequence elimination

25. Los Angeles Dodgers (.617), division sequence elimination

26. Atlanta Braves (.642), division sequence elimination

27. Philadelphia Phillies (.556), championship sequence elimination

28. Houston Astros (.556), championship sequence elimination

29. Arizona Diamondbacks (.519), World Series elimination

30. Texas Rangers (.556), World Series champion

How do I watch the MLB Draft Lottery?

The MLB Draft Lottery will probably be Tuesday, Dec. 5, at 5:30 p.m. ET, airing reside on MLB Network.

What are the Athletics’ odds for the MLB Draft Lottery?

After ending an MLB-worst 50-112, the A’s have a 18.3% likelihood to land the No. 1 choose. They have equal odds with the Royals and Rockies. Here’s the percentages for the A’s to land in every explicit draft slot:

• First choose: 18.3%
• Second choose: 17.4%
• Third choose: 16.2%
• Fourth choose: 14.8%
• Fifth choose: 13.0%
• Sixth choose: 10.9%
• Seventh choose (not chosen in lottery): 9.4%

What are the Giants’ odds for the MLB Draft Lottery?

The Giants are going through lengthy odds to land the highest choose at 1.0%. Here’s the percentages for the Giants to land in every explicit draft slot:

• First choose: 1.0%
• Second choose: 1.1%
• Third choose: 1.3%
• Fourth choose: 1.6%
• Fifth choose: 1.9%
• Sixth choose: 2.2%
• Not chosen in lottery: 90.9%