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2026 MLB Draft Selections
The White Sox added a top college bat as five clubs lost 10 draft spots for exceeding MLB’s competitive-balance tax threshold.
- On Saturday, the Chicago White Sox selected UCLA shortstop Roch Cholowsky with the No. 1 pick in the 2026 MLB draft, launching a position player-heavy start to the 135-pick opening day.
- The Pittsburgh Pirates hold the largest bonus pool at $19,130,000, followed by the Tampa Bay Rays with $19,009,300, while the White Sox, San Francisco Giants, and Minnesota Twins round out the top five.
- Five organizations—the New York Mets, New York Yankees, Philadelphia Phillies, Toronto Blue Jays, and Los Angeles Dodgers—each lost 10 draft spots for exceeding the second surcharge threshold of the competitive-balance tax.
- Minnesota Twins catcher Vahn Lackey from Georgia Tech finished 2026 with 20 home runs and a 1.291 OPS, bringing significant offensive production to the position behind the plate.
- Saturday's draft covered four rounds with 120 standard picks, plus compensatory, competitive balance, and promotion incentive selections, as teams continue building rosters beyond the initial first-round choices.
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2026 MLB Draft Selections
NYM, NYY, PHI, TOR and LAD penalized 10 spots for exceeding second surcharge threshold of competitive-balance tax 1. Chicago White Sox, Roch Cholowsky, ss, UCLA.
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2026 MLB Draft, First Round Results
This year’s amateur draft is officially underway, and we’ll be updating this post throughout the day with every first-round selection. More details and scouting reports on all these young players are available in pre-draft rankings from Baseball America, Fangraphs, MLB Pipeline, The Athletic’s Keith Law, and ESPN’s Kiley McDaniel. As well, Pipeline has the breakdown of the slot values assigned to each pick in the first 10 rounds, as well as th…
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Total News Sources12
Leaning Left3Leaning Right1Center6Last UpdatedBias Distribution60% Center
Bias Distribution
- 60% of the sources are Center
60% Center
L 30%
C 60%
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