There is no tried and true way to "win" the MLB draft. Every team always says it simply picks the best player available, and even those typically need years of training and reps before reaching the majors.

In the year since the 2024 MLB Draft, five first-round picks have already debuted at the MLB level: Chase Burns (No. 2), Nick Kurtz (No. 4), Jac Caglianone (No. 6), Christian Moore (No. 8), and Cam Smith (No. 14). While the early returns have been mixed, Kurtz and Smith have heated up after finding their footing.

MLB mock draft 2025 predicts Ethan Holliday and college pitchers could dominate first round. Washington Nationals face tough decision at No. 1.

One week before they select the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 MLB draft, the Washington Nationals fired president of baseball operations Mike Rizzo and manager Dave Martinez, a rare housecleaning on the eve of arguably the most important time of year for baseball-operations departments.

Major League Baseball's amateur draft is now just a few weeks away, with the Washington Nationals scheduled to the third No. 1 selection in franchise history come Sunday, July 13. While it remains unclear who the Nationals will take at the top,

But it was an outlier draft. Only two players each in the 1984, 1994 and 2004 first rounds have gone on to produce 25 WAR in their careers. (That said, 2004 draftee Gio Gonzalez has 14.7 WAR since ...

Washington Nationals MLB draft history, results, tendencies and potential targets for the 2018 MLB Draft. Skip to ... following a best player available strategy and the results are showing ...

When an MLB team "wins" a pick in the lottery (i.e. gets a pick in the top six) in back-to-back drafts, it becomes ineligible for a pick earlier than No. 10 in the next year's lottery.

With the worst record in baseball entering Saturday’s games, the Nationals are falling toward another high selection in 2023. MLB’s new collective bargaining agreement includes a draft lottery ...