The Chicago White Sox will pick first in next summer’s MLB Draft.

Chicago won Tuesday’s MLB Draft Lottery after a trying 2025 campaign in which it went 60-102. The White Sox had a 27.72 per cent chance of earning the selection.

Introduced ahead of the 2023 season, the draft lottery determines the top six selections between the 18 clubs that don’t make the playoffs. The remaining picks among those teams are sorted by winning percentage.

Along with the White Sox, the Minnesota Twins (22.18 per cent), Pittsburgh Pirates (16.81 per cent), Baltimore Orioles (9.24 per cent) and Athletics (6.55 per cent) rounded out the five teams with the best odds at the top pick.

The Orioles and A’s both dropped out of the top six after the results.

The Tampa Bay Rays jumped from seventh in the odds to th

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