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MLB Lottery Outcomes 2025: Nationals Get No. 1 Choose; Full Choice Order, Evaluation

Andrew Peters December 10, 2024 G Fiume/Getty Images The third-ever MLB draft lottery favored the Washington Nationals as they earned the first overall pick on Tuesday. MLB @MLB The @Nationals have won the #MLBDraft Lottery and will select first in the 2025 MLB Draft. pic.twitter.com/e5VKOqlrrF The Nationals had the fourth-best odds of winning the lottery

MLB Lottery Outcomes 2025: Nationals Get No. 1 Choose; Full Choice Order, Evaluation

Andrew PetersDecember 10, 2024

WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 28: A view of the Washington Nationals logo on a baseball cap during the game against the New York Yankees at Nationals Park on August 28, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Photo by G Fiume/Getty Images)

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The third-ever MLB draft lottery favored the Washington Nationals as they earned the primary general choose on Tuesday.

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The @Nationals have received the #MLBDraft Lottery and can choose first within the 2025 MLB Draft. pic.twitter.com/e5VKOqlrrF

The Nationals had the fourth-best odds of profitable the lottery at 10.2 %. Will probably be the third time Washington has drafted first general.

The Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins had the most effective odds to get the primary general choose at 22.45 % every. The Los Angeles Angels, Nationals and Toronto Blue Jays had been simply behind them adopted by the remainder of the groups that did not attain the postseason.

Regardless of having a traditionally dangerous file, the Chicago White Sox had been ineligible for a lottery choose as a result of they received a lottery choose final 12 months and are a payor membership, which prevents back-to-back seasons with a lottery choose, per MLB.com. The identical logic applies to the Oakland Athletics. These two groups cannot get a choose sooner than tenth or eleventh.

This is a have a look at the entire draft order of the primary spherical.

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2024 MLB Draft (Spherical 1 Order)

1. Washington Nationals

2. Los Angeles Angels

3. Seattle Mariners

4. Colorado Rockies

5. St. Louis Cardinals

6. Pittsburgh Pirates

7. Miami Marlins

8. Toronto Blue Jays

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9. Cincinnati Reds

10. Chicago White Sox

11. Oakland Athletics

12. Texas Rangers

13. San Francisco Giants

14. Tampa Bay Rays

15. Boston Crimson Sox

16. Minnesota Twins

17. Chicago Cubs

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18. Arizona Diamondbacks

19. Baltimore Orioles

20. Milwaukee Brewers

21. Houston Astros

22. Atlanta Braves

23. Kansas Metropolis Royals

24. Detroit Tigers

25. San Diego Padres

26. Philadelphia Phillies

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27. Cleveland Guardians

28. New York Mets

29. New York Yankees

30. Los Angeles Dodgers

There are many thrilling prospects from the collegiate and highschool ranks for the Nationals to select from, however Ethan Holliday is perhaps essentially the most intriguing.

Holliday is the son of MLB legend Matt Vacation and the youthful brother of Jackson Holliday, who went first general within the 2022 draft to the Baltimore Orioles. Ought to the Nats take Holliday, it will make him and Jackson the primary brothers ever to each go No. 1 within the MLB draft.

Holliday, who at the moment performs shortstop, stands at 6’4″ and 200 kilos which may result in him transferring over to 3rd base upon reaching the majors. That body offers him each a robust arm and energy on the plate, making him onerous to move up for Washington.

Bleacher Report’s Joel Reuter and MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo each checklist Holliday as the highest prospect for the 2025 MLB draft.

Jace LaViolette might be the primary participant off the board from the collegiate ranks. The Texas A&M outfielder had a .305 batting common and 1.175 OPS a season in the past, slugging 29 house runs and 78 RBI. He helped lead the Aggies to a Faculty World Collection look, the place they fell to Tennessee.

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Lottery groups eager to draft a pitcher ought to look no additional than Florida State’s Jamie Arnold. The lefty starter had a 2.98 ERA in his second 12 months with the Seminoles, posting 159 strikeouts and a 1.098 WHIP on his technique to an 11-3 file.

It is by no means straightforward figuring out which prospect will emerge as the highest out of his class, however the Nationals have carried out properly in figuring out expertise prior to now. The primary time they’d the No. 1 general choose in 2009 they chose Stephen Strasburg. A 12 months later, they picked Bryce Harper with the highest choose.

If Washington has comparable success this 12 months, it may imply one other star on its roster.

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