{"id":17925,"date":"2022-12-28T09:20:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:20:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17925"},"modified":"2022-12-28T09:21:16","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T14:21:16","slug":"2023-mlb-draft-order-finalized-with-eovaldi-signing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=17925","title":{"rendered":"2023 MLB Draft Order Finalized with Eovaldi signing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>With the last Qualifying Offer-laden signing occurring yesterday (<strong>Nathan Eovaldi<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlbtraderumors.com\/2022\/12\/rangers-to-sign-nathan-eovaldi.html\">going to the profligate<\/a> Texas Rangers, who have bought themselves an entire new rotation this offseason), the 2023 draft order is now complete.  Major input to the top of the draft order was determined by the results of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mlb-draft-lottery-results-2023?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage\">Draft Lottery<\/a> a few weeks back, and then with the announcement of this year&#8217;s <s>free draft picks for cheap-skate teams<\/s> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/news\/mlb-draft-competitive-balance-rounds-set-2023\">Competitive Balance Picks<\/a>.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The final 2023 Draft Order is now <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/spreadsheets\/d\/1dDluKCmQ1AjJASwVNHDfVqNADjaazkQHPAZLLE9IJeE\/edit?usp=sharing\">uploaded to this Google XLS<\/a>.  It shows the original 1st round order, the post-draft lottery order, all the picks gained and lost due to signings etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it stands, the Nats picks are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>1st round: #2 overall post lottery<\/li><li>2nd round: #39 overall.  this pick had the chance to slightly move up if one of the comp-A round teams decided to sign a FA &#8230; but the only one of them even thinking about competing in 2023 seems to be Seattle, who did not sign anyone.<\/li><li>3rd round: #70.  this pick moved up seven slots thanks to the eight teams who gave up their 2nd round picks to sign QO players.<\/li><li>4th round: #99, from the original projected #107. Again, moved up 8 slots due to 8 lost 2nd rounders.<\/li><li>5th round: #134; moved up 10 spots due to two additional lost comp picks from players re-signing as QO laden players.<\/li><li>6th round: #161, moved up 3 more spots thanks to three teams (San Diego, Yankees, and Philadelphia) who gave up their 5th rounders.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>No word yet on bonus pools, but the #2 overall team last year (Arizona) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlb.com\/nationals\/news\/mlb-draft-2022-bonus-pools-pick-values\">had more than $15M<\/a> in total bonus pool and an $8.1M figure for its 2nd overall pick, which should net a couple of very good prospects.  #2 overall was worth $8.1, while the #39 overall pick was worth a hair over $2M.  So that&#8217;s what we can expect from the 2023 draft.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, four picks in the top 100 for the 2023 draft.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the last Qualifying Offer-laden signing occurring yesterday (Nathan Eovaldi going to the profligate Texas Rangers, who have bought themselves an entire new rotation this offseason), the 2023 draft order is now complete. Major input to the top of the draft order was determined by the results of the Draft Lottery a few weeks back, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17925"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17954,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17925\/revisions\/17954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}