This 12 months’s beginner draft is formally underway, and we’ll be updating this submit all through the night time with each first-round choice. Extra particulars and scouting studies on all these younger gamers can be found in pre-draft rankings from Baseball America, Fangraphs, MLB Pipeline, The Athletic’s Keith Regulation, and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. As effectively, Pipeline has the breakdown of the slot values assigned to every choose within the first 10 rounds, in addition to the bonus pool cash accessible to all 30 groups.
The primary-round picks…
- Cleveland Guardians: Travis Bazzana, 2B, Oregon State
- Cincinnati Reds: Chase Burns, RHP, Wake Forest
- Colorado Rockies: Charlie Condon, OF/3B, Georgia
- Oakland Athletics: Nick Kurtz, 1B, Wake Forest
- Chicago White Sox: Hagen Smith, LHP, Arkansas
- Kansas Metropolis Royals: Jac Caglianone, 1B/LHP, Florida
- St. Louis Cardinals: JJ Wetherholt, 2B/SS, West Virginia
- Los Angeles Angels: Christian Moore, 2B, Tennessee
- Pittsburgh Pirates: Konnor Griffin, SS/OF, Jackson Prep Excessive College (MS)
- Washington Nationals: Seaver King, SS/3B/OF, Wake Forest
- Detroit Tigers: Bryce Rainer, SS, Harvard-Westlake Excessive College (CA)
- Boston Pink Sox: Braden Montgomery, OF, Texas A&M
- San Francisco Giants: James Tibbs III, OF, Florida State
- Chicago Cubs: Cam Smith, 3B, Florida State
- Seattle Mariners: Jurrangelo Cijntje, LHP/RHP, Mississippi State
- Miami Marlins: PJ Morlando, OF, Summerville Excessive College (SC)
- Milwaukee Brewers: Braylon Payne, OF, Elkins Excessive College (TX)
- Tampa Bay Rays: Theo Gillen, OF/MI, Westlake Excessive College (TX)
- New York Mets: Carson Benge, OF, Oklahoma State
- Toronto Blue Jays: Trey Yesavage, RHP, East Carolina
- Minnesota Twins: Kaelen Culpepper, SS, Kansas State
- Baltimore Orioles: Vance Honeycutt, OF, North Carolina
- Los Angeles Dodgers: Kellon Lindsey, SS, Hardee Excessive College (FL)
- Atlanta Braves: Cam Caminiti, LHP, Saguero Excessive College (AZ)
- San Diego Padres: Kash Mayfield, LHP, Elk Metropolis Excessive College (OK)
- New York Yankees: Ben Hess, RHP, Alabama
- Philadelphia Phillies: Dante Nori, OF, Northville Excessive College (MI)
- Houston Astros: Walker Janek, C, Sam Houston
- Arizona Diamondbacks: Slade Caldwell, OF, Valley View Excessive College (AR)
- Texas Rangers: Malcolm Moore, C, Stanford
All 30 groups could have picks within the first spherical this 12 months, although the Mets, Padres, and Yankees all had their first-round choices dropped again by 10 slots. These three groups surpassed the third luxurious tax tier ($273MM) in 2023, and thus their punishment included a 10-space drop of their opening draft selection.
The 2024 draft will happen over three days, consisting of 20 rounds of choices. Rounds 3-10 will happen on Monday, rounds 11-20 will happen on Tuesday, and the draft’s first 74 picks will come off the board tonight. These 74 picks include the primary two correct rounds, the 2 Aggressive Steadiness Rounds, two units of compensatory rounds (giving picks to groups who misplaced qualifying offer-rejecting free brokers), and two Prospect Promotion Incentive picks.
The 2 PPI choices will go to the Diamondbacks at thirty first total and the Orioles at thirty second total, awarded since Corbin Carroll and Gunnar Henderson match the entire standards for his or her groups to obtain the bonus picks. Carroll and Henderson received Rookie of the Yr honors, each younger stars have been included on their respective groups’ Opening Day rosters, and have been rated as top-100 prospects in at the very least two of three units of preseason prospect rankings from Baseball America, MLB Pipeline, and ESPN.
