The Chicago White Sox have the best odds (27.73%) to land the No. 1 overall pick, followed by the Minnesota Twins (22.18%) and Pittsburgh Pirates (16.81%).
While the Colorado Rockies had MLB’s worst record (43-119), the team had a top-six lottery pick in each of the past two drafts, making them ineligible for a third.
This marks baseball’s fourth draft lottery and the previous teams to win the lottery had odds of 16.5% (2023 Pirates), 2.0% (2024 Guardians) and 10.2% (2025 Nationals).
Here’s what to know entering Tuesday’s draft lottery:
When is MLB draft lottery? How to watch, TV channel
- Time: 5:30 p.m. ET
- TV channel: MLB Network
MLB draft lottery odds 2026
- White Sox: 27.73%
- Twins: 22.18%
- Pirates: 16.81%
- Orioles: 9.24%
- Athletics: 6.55%
- Braves: 4.54%
- Rays: 3.03%
- Cardinals: 2.35%
- Marlins: 1.85%
- Diamondbacks: 1.51%
- Rangers: 1.34%
- Giants: 1.01%
- Royals: 0.84%
- Mets: 0.67%
- Astros: 0.34%
- Rockies: ineligible
- Nationals: ineligible
- Angels: ineligible
The Colorado Rockies had the worst record in baseball but are are ineligible for the lottery because a team can’t receive a top-six pick three years in a row, after the team had such picks in 2024 and 2025. The Washington Nationals and Los Angeles Angels are also ineligible as ‘payor’ teams, unable to receive back-to-back lottery picks.
