The 2023 MLB Draft is here. Two years ago MLB pushed the draft back from the first week of June to the All-Star break in an effort to better market the event and it will remain there moving forward, even though many executives don't like it. This year the three-day draft begins Sunday, July 9.
The Pirates won the draft lottery in December and hold the No. 1 selection in the 2023 draft. It is the sixth time they've held the No. 1 pick, the most among all teams. Pittsburgh used their previous five No. 1 picks on Jeff King (1986), Kris Benson (1996), Bryan Bullington (2002), Gerrit Cole (2011), and the recently called up Henry Davis (2021).
"The first choice is really important, to state the obvious," Pirates GM Ben Cherington told the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review recently. "Every team's job is to get as much total talent out of every draft as they can. Historically, when you have the first pick, the biggest portion of that is going to be for the first pick so we have to consider that. History says that that's where the best player is going to come from. But the whole draft is important and our job is to get as much as we can out of it."
There are only 28 picks in the first round this year because the Mets and Dodgers exceeded the $270 million third competitive balance tax threshold last season, pushing their first selection in this year's draft back 10 spots. The Mets now pick at No. 32 instead of No. 22, and the Dodgers now pick at No. 36 instead of No. 26. They fell out of the first round.
Here are R.J. Anderson's top 30 draft prospects and here are our first and our second 2023 first round mock drafts. Below is our third and final mock draft based on the latest chatter, rumors, and speculation.
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