Here's everything you need to know about the lottery, how the night shook out and where your team will pick in the first round of the 2025 MLB draft: How the MLB Draft Lottery Wor

Washington got the top overall pick in next summer’s draft after winning a lottery in a drawing of ping-pong balls at the winter meetings on Tuesday, setting up the Nationals to make the first pick for the third time in franchise history. In 2009, they drafted pitcher Stephen Strasburg No. 1.