ORLANDO — When 5 p.m. approached on Tuesday and Derek Falvey’s phone still hadn’t rung, the Twins’ president of baseball and business operations came to the natural conclusion: the team had not landed the No. 1 pick in next year’s draft.

“You’re waiting, and you’re like, ‘It’s 5. They would have called by now. This isn’t great,’” Falvey said.

No, the luck of the ping pong balls was not on the Twins’ side on Tuesday afternoon — they had the second-highest odds of landing the first pick — but the team still walked away from the draft lottery with the No. 3 overall selection, a good result all things considered.

The draft lottery took place behind closed doors at the Winter Meetings in Orlando, with the results announced in a televised show on MLB Network.

Reporters and executives, includ

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