MLB draft 2023: Detroit Tigers select high school outfielder Max Clark with No. 3 pick
Here's how to watch the MLB draft 2023, with TV channel start time and streaming info, draft order, instant live updates and breaking news leading into and during the three-day event in Seattle.
This is the first draft under MLB’s draft lottery; the Pittsburgh Pirates won the December drawing for the No. 1 pick, with the Washington Nationals nabbing the No. 2 spot and the Detroit Tigers getting the No. 3 pick despite finishing the 2022 season with only the sixth-worst record.
The draft is widely viewed as five players deep, with three collegiate players and two high school outfielders drawing the most praise: LSU outfielder Dylan Crews, LSU right-hander Paul Skenes, Florida outfielder Wyatt Langford, Indiana high school outfielder Max Clark and North Carolina high school outfielder Walker Jenkins.
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The Pirates have the largest bonus pool they can use on draft picks, at $16,185,700, while the Tigers are No. 2, at $15,747,200, and the Nats are No. 3, at $14,502,400.
Crews, who won this year’s Golden Spikes Award as college baseball’s best player, is seen as the top pick, but the Pirates could reach a pre-draft deal with another pick — potentially Langford, Clark or Jenkins — to save money in its bonus pool for later picks. Skenes, who spent one season at LSU after transferring from Air Force, is seen as the best pitching prospect since Stephen Strasburg was drafted by the Nats in 2009.
The Tigers are expected to go with a college bat: Either Crews if he’s available, or Langford, who may have the most power potential and is also the better fielder of the two.
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MLB draft 2023
Where: Lumen Field, Seattle.
When: Rounds 1-2 — 7 p.m. Sunday; Rounds 3-10 — 2 p.m. Monday; Rounds 11-20 — 2 p.m. Tuesday.
TV: Rounds 1-2, ESPN; Rounds 3-20, Streaming on mlb.com.
Tigers’ top picks (overall pick in parentheses): Round 1 — No. 3 (3); Competitive Balance Round 1 — No. 8 (37); Round 2 — No. 6 (45); Round 3 — No. 6 (76); Round 4 — No. 6 (107); Round 5 — No. 6 (143).
The draft order:
1. Pittsburgh Pirates: RHP Paul Skenes
2. Washington Nationals: OF Dylan Crews
3. Detroit Tigers: OF Max Clark
10. Miami Marlins
13. Chicago Cubs
14. Boston Red Sox
19. Tampa Bay Rays
22. Seattle Mariners
24. Atlanta Braves
25. San Diego Padres
26. New York Yankees
28. Houston Astros
29. Seattle Mariners
Head here for the entire 20-round draft order. The Los Angeles Dodgers’ and New York Mets’ first-round picks were pushed back into Competitive Balance Round 1 for exceeding the CBT threshold by more than $40 million. The Mariners received an extra first-round pick for Julio Rodriguez’s AL Rookie of the Year victory.
Head here for every Tigers pick through all 20 rounds.
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