From December 3rd to the 6th, baseball’s winter meetings will be held in Nashville, Tennessee. On Dec 5th, there will be a live broadcast on the MLB network of the newly installed draft lottery. MLB started this to deter tanking. It will give the top six spots in the draft to six of the following nine teams.
Athletics, Royals, Rockies, Angels, White Sox, Cardinals, Mets, Guardians, Pirates. Teams that pay into revenue sharing cannot be in the lottery in back-to-back years, so the Nationals, who had the # 2 pick in this year’s draft, cannot be in the lottery despite finishing with the 5th worst record.