Washington Nationals win MLB Draft Lottery, land No. 1 pick in next year's draft

In 2010, which was the past clip the Washington Nationals had the No. 1 wide draught pick, they took Bryce Harper.

In 2025, the Nationals are heading toward the apical prime again aft winning the Draft Lottery connected Tuesday. With a 71-91 grounds past season, the Nationals came into the lottery pinch a 10.2-percent chance of landing the No. 1 pick, the fourth-best likelihood successful the league. They will prime No. 1 for the first clip since they took Harper pinch their 2nd of consecutive No. 1 picks (they besides picked No. 1 successful 2009 and took Stephen Strasburg).

#1 PICK BABY LET'S GOOOOO!!!!!!

— Washington Nationals (@Nationals) December 10, 2024

The Seattle Mariners and St. Louis Cardinals were the different large winners of the draught lottery. The Mariners had the 15th-best grounds successful shot past play and the Cardinals the 13th-best, but they will prime No. 3 and No. 5, respectively, successful adjacent year’s draft.

The Miami Marlins and Colorado Rockies each had a 22.45-percent chance of winning the No. 1 prime — the champion likelihood successful the lottery — but each fell extracurricular of the apical three. The Rockies will prime 4th and the Marlins seventh.

The draught is 7 months away, and location is nary standout, statement apical imaginable successful the class, according to The Athletic’s scouting master Keith Law.

“The apical of the 2025 draught looks highly anemic correct now,” Law wrote. “Not only is location nary runaway 1-1 campaigner for illustration a Bryce Harper aliases a Stephen Strasburg, the guys who mightiness beryllium astatine the apical of a ranking aliases a pref database presently are each flawed successful immoderate measurement that successful astir years would destruct them from 1-1 contention.”

Texas A&M outfielder Jace LaViolette, Florida State lefty Jamie Arnold and Oklahoma precocious schoolhouse 3rd baseman Ethan Holliday — the relative of Baltimore Orioles 2nd baseman Jackson Holliday — are among the astir notable names, but nary has a group of can’t-miss tools. LaViolette strikes retired a lot, Arnold is chiefly a two-pitch pitcher and Holliday doesn’t person elite protect value.

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— Perfect Game Scout (@PG_Scouting) June 23, 2024

“That could mean there’s an opportunity for personification who comes retired powerfully this spring,” Law wrote.

He noted Clemson halfway fielder Cam Cannarella, Indiana outfielder Devin Taylor and UC-Santa Barbara right-hander Tyler Bremner arsenic players who could emergence to the apical of draught boards pinch beardown performances.

Here is the complete first-round draught bid for 2025:

1. Washington Nationals
2. Los Angeles Angels
3. Seattle Mariners
4. Colorado Rockies
5. St. Louis Cardinals
6. Pittsburgh Pirates
7. Miami Marlins
8. Toronto Blue Jays
9. Cincinnati Reds
10. Chicago White Sox
11. Athletics
12. Texas Rangers
13. San Francisco Giants
14. Tampa Bay Rays
15. Boston Red Sox
16. Minnesota Twins
17. Chicago Cubs
18. Arizona Diamondbacks
19. Baltimore Orioles
20. Milwaukee Brewers
21. Houston Astros
22. Atlanta Braves
23. Kansas City Royals
24. Detroit Tigers
25. San Diego Padres
26. Philadelphia Phillies
27. Cleveland Guardians
28. New York Mets
29. New York Yankees
30. Los Angeles Dodgers

(Top photo: Daniel Shirey / MLB Photos via Getty Images)

Chad Jennings is simply a unit writer for The Athletic covering the Boston Red Sox and Major League Baseball. He was connected the Red Sox hit antecedently for the Boston Herald, and earlier moving to Boston, he covered the New York Yankees for The Journal News and contributed regularly to USA Today. Follow Chad connected Twitter @chadjennings22