The Washington Nationals can have the No. 1 total choose within the 2025 Main League Baseball draft after profitable the draft lottery on Tuesday night time.
The Nationals entered the day with a ten.8% likelihood of profitable the highest choose, the fourth finest odds of any staff within the lottery.
Will probably be the third time they’ve chosen No. 1 total, and so they hit huge dwelling runs with their first two prime picks with Stephen Strasburg in 2009 and Bryce Harper in 2010.
Ethan Holliday, the brother of 2022 No. 1 total choose Jackson Holliday, is anticipated to be the highest choose on this 12 months’s class.
Whether or not it’s Holliday or one other prospect, the Nationals have an opportunity to land one other potential franchise cornerstone to a younger, rising roster that appears to have brighter days forward of it.
Listed here are the remainder of Tuesday’s lottery outcomes:
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; 9. Cincinnati Reds; 10. Chicago White Sox; 11. Athletics; 12. Texas Rangers; 13. San Francisco Giants; 14. Tampa Bay Rays; 15. Boston Purple Sox; 16. Minnesota Twins; 17. Chicago Cubs; 18. Arizona Diamondbacks.
The largest losers listed below are clearly the Colorado Rockies and Miami Marlins.
Each groups entered the day tied with the best odds for the highest choose (22.5%) and dropped right down to No. 4 and No. 7, respectively. That’s brutal luck for 2 groups that had actually dreadful 2024 seasons.
Together with the Nationals, the St. Louis Cardinals had been additionally huge winners, going from the No. 13 choose all the best way up the No. 5 total choose.
The 2025 MLB Draft will happen July 13-15.