For the fourth season now, MLB has staged its draft lottery at the Winter Meetings, this year in Orlando, Florida. With the still-relatively new lottery system, most teams that missed the playoffs the prior season get a chance at winning some top talent, hoping to make their mark in the majors sooner rather than later.

The teams with the highest odds to win the first overall pick in the MLB draft this year were the Chicago White Sox, who had the highest odds at 27.73 percent, the Minnesota Twins (22.18%), and the Pittsburgh Pirates (16.81%). The Baltimore Orioles came in fourth and had the highest odds of any American League East team at 9.24%. The Colorado Rockies were ineligible despite finishing as the worst team in baseball because teams can only be lotto-eligible so many years in a r

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