The 2023 MLB draft begins Sunday at Lumen Field in Seattle, and the White Sox and Cubs every will choose 20 new prospects. Both groups have mid-first-round picks and can choose from a draft class heavy on faculty expertise. Slot bonuses for these early picks at the moment are within the thousands and thousands.
Here’s what to know in regards to the three-day draft.
When is the draft and the way can I watch?
The first-year participant draft will coincide with MLB All-Star week festivities in Seattle. The draft is 20 rounds, separated into three days.
Sunday, July 9
Rounds 1 and a couple of, 6 p.m. (ESPN and MLB Network)
Monday, July 10
Rounds 3-10, 1 p.m. (Stream: MLB.com)
Tuesday, July 11
Rounds 11-20, 1 p.m. (Stream: MLB.com)
What is new within the 2023 MLB draft?
This is the primary 12 months MLB utilized a draft lottery to find out choice order. The lottery was held throughout the winter conferences in December 2022.
The lottery decided the primary six picks — the Pittsburgh Pirates, Washington Nationals, Detroit Tigers, Texas Rangers, Minnesota Twins and Oakland Athletics — with the remaining order based mostly on the earlier season’s file. Teams with the worst 2022 information had greater odds within the lottery.
And whereas the MLB draft beforehand added picks for compensation and aggressive stability causes, new this 12 months is the Prospect Promotion Incentive choose, awarded to the Seattle Mariners at No. 29 for 2022 AL Rookie of the Year Julio Rodríguez. The incentive was a part of the most recent collective bargaining settlement and designed to discourage service time manipulation.
The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Mets had been bumped out of the primary spherical because of spending over the luxury-tax threshold. The Dodgers equally didn’t have a first-round choose in 2022, however after the Mets’ offseason spending spree, that is the primary time they’ve been affected by having their first choose pushed again 10 spots.
Also a primary: MLB estimates the full bonus pool for all 30 groups at greater than $307 million. Combined whole bonuses seemingly will high that quantity when the ink settles (groups face penalties for going over), however the assigned pool values are up nearly 10% from 2022. Based on the worth of their draft choose slots, the White Sox are taking a look at a $9,072,800 bonus pool, whereas the Cubs’ pool is $8,962,000.
How many picks do the Cubs and White Sox have?
Each crew has 20 choices. The Sox have one choose in every spherical. The Cubs forfeited their second-round choose with the signing of Dansby Swanson, who had a qualifying supply from the Atlanta Braves. They obtained a compensation choose at No. 68 for dropping Willson Contreras to the St. Louis Cardinals after making him a qualifying supply.
Cubs
- Round 1: No. 13 (bonus slot worth $4,848,500)
- Compensation choose: No. 68
- Round 3: No. 81
- Round 4: No. 113
- Rounds 5-20: No. 149 and each thirtieth choose thereafter
White Sox
- Round 1: No. 15 (bonus slot worth $4,488,600)
- Round 2: No. 51
- Round 3: No. 84
- Round 4: No. 116
- Rounds 5-20: No. 152 and each thirtieth choose thereafter
Who are the highest prospects?
Based on MLB.com draft rankings, seven of the highest 10 prospects this 12 months are faculty gamers, together with LSU outfielder Dylan Crews and right-handed starter Paul Skenes, who led the Tigers final month to the NCAA Men’s College World Series title. The MCWS semifinals additionally featured high prospects Wyatt Langford of Florida and Rhett Lowder of Wake Forest.
Max Clark of Franklin, Ind., is among the many high highschool prospects and could possibly be a top-five choose regardless of his dedication to Vanderbilt.
Some choices who could possibly be round by the point the Cubs choose at No. 13 or the White Sox choose at No. 15 are infielders Aidan Miller (Mitchell HS, Florida), Colin Houck (Parkview HS, Georgia), Jacob Gonzalez (Mississippi) and Yohandy Morales (Miami); catcher Blake Mitchell (Stinton HS, Texas); and outfielder Enrique Bradfield Jr. (Vanderbilt). MLB.com’s newest mock draft has the Cubs projected to take infielder Brayden Taylor of TCU with their first choose and the White Sox selecting Arizona outfielder Chase Davis.
Any native prospects who could possibly be drafted?
There is one potential first-round choice among the many six gamers who attended Chicago-area excessive faculties and are ranked in MLB Pipeline’s 2023 Draft Top 200 Prospects checklist. Two of these six gamers are latest highschool graduates and the opposite 4 performed collegiately.
No. 22: Dillon Head, Homewood-Flossmoor
Head has a selection this summer season: signal with the MLB crew that drafts him, probably within the first spherical, or comply with his faculty dedication to Clemson. “Whether I go to college or to pro ball out of high school, I see myself getting there to the big leagues one day either way. I’m not too stressed about it,” Head informed the Daily Southtown in March. The left-handed Head profiles as a speedy outfielder and baserunner.
No. 68: George Wolkow, Downers Grove North
Wolkow is simply 17, having reclassified into the 2023 draft class, however he has dimension: 6-foot-7, 239 kilos. He has dedicated to South Carolina. He participated within the 2023 MLB draft mix in Phoenix, the place the nook infielder/outfielder impressed along with his home-run-hitting capacity.
No. 115: Jack Mahoney, St. Viator/South Carolina
Mahoney was a multisport athlete at St. Viator and dedicated to play baseball at South Carolina early on. The 6-3 right-hander went 7-4 this previous season for the Gamecocks, with a 4.16 ERA and 84 strikeouts in his return from 2021 Tommy John surgical procedure.
No. 148: Jack Payton, Brother Rice/Louisville
Payton, a catcher and 2023 Buster Posey Award finalist, hit .374 with 12 house runs for Louisville in 2023. He is the youthful brother of Mark Payton, who appeared in eight video games for the White Sox in 2022 and presently performs professionally in Japan.
No. 156: Christian Knapczyk, Joliet Catholic/Louisville
Louisville’s leadoff hitter in 2023, Knapczyk reached base in all however 4 video games for the Cardinals and earned third-team All-ACC honors for the third time. The Daily Southtown reported Knapczyk dedicated to Louisville earlier than enjoying a single highschool recreation.
No. 180: Isaiah Coupet, Homewood-Flossmoor/Ohio State
A left-handed starter, Coupet is Sep 11 with a 4.61 ERA over three seasons at Ohio State. He additionally pitched within the Cape Cod League this summer season and was invited to the MLB draft mix.
How have latest White Sox and Cubs draft picks fared?
White Sox
Two present members of the Sox had been latest first-round draft choices by the crew: Garrett Crochet (2020) and Andrew Vaughn (2019). Crochet made his debut in the identical season he was drafted out of Tennessee, then misplaced the 2022 season to Tommy John surgical procedure.
The newer first-rounders are usually not transferring as quick as Crochet did. Colson Montgomery, the 2021 choice, is on a rehab project for a again harm in Arizona. And 2022 hometown choose Noah Schultz out of Oswego East has pitched solely a handful {of professional} innings at Single-A Kannapolis.
Right-hander Jonathan Cannon, the 2022 third-round choose presently at High-A Winston-Salem, is on the roster for the 2023 Futures Game throughout the All-Star break.
Cubs
Of MLB.com’s high 100 Prospects, just one is a Cubs-drafted participant: 2022 first-round choice Cade Horton. The right-hander already has made one transfer this season, from Low-A Myrtle Beach to High-A South Bend. The high choose from 2021, Jordan Wicks, can also be on the transfer after a promotion to Triple-A Iowa on June 27.
Most of the Cubs draft choices from the previous three years are the place they need to be on the farm, except these hampered by accidents. Nazier Mulé, a 2022 fourth-round choose, underwent Tommy John surgical procedure this spring.
Hometown signee Ed Howard, the Cubs’ first-round choose within the truncated 2020 draft, missed many of the 2022 season with a hip harm. He is at High-A South Bend and hit his first house run in 14 months on June 27.
Cubs and White Sox draft historical past
The Sox have had the No. 1 choose twice. In 1971 they chose Danny Goodwin from Peoria Central High School, however he declined to signal and opted to play collegiately at Southern. Goodwin was once more drafted with the No. 1 choose in 1975, this time by the California Angels, and he went on to play seven seasons within the majors.
The most up-to-date No. 1 choose by the Sox was in 1977, after they took future Hall of Famer Harold Baines out of St. Michaels High School in Maryland.
The Cubs have had just one No. 1 choose, which they used on excessive schooler Shawon Dunston in 1982. Dunston went on to play 18 seasons, together with 12 with the Cubs, and was twice an All-Star shortstop.
The first MLB novice draft was held in 1965. That 12 months the Cubs chosen right-hander Rick James from an Alabama highschool with their first choose, No. 6, and paid him a $40,000 bonus. James made his debut two years later and noticed motion in solely three major-league video games.
The Sox’s first draft choice was Notre Dame catcher Ken Plesha at No. 17, whom they paid a $20,000 bonus. A St. Mel High School graduate, Plesha performed three seasons within the minor leagues however by no means made it above Class A.
Sources: MLB.com, MiLB.com, Baseball Reference, Associated Press, NCAA.com, gamecocksonline.com, gocards.com, ohiostatebuckeyes.com
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