Nationals Land The #1 Overall Draft Pick
The Sports Junkies
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🗓️ 11 December 2024
⏱️ 14 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | So if you're listening during the break there, you heard Grant and Danny's excitement about the Washington Nationals. |
| 0:06.3 | Luck in the draft lottery, they secure the number one overall pick. |
| 0:12.0 | They get it. |
| 0:12.3 | They only had the fourth best odds at 10.8% to land the top pick. |
| 0:17.0 | The Rockies and Marlins each were tied for 22.5% chance. |
| 0:23.0 | But the Marlins fell to seventh, and the Rockies are going to pick fourth? |
| 0:26.7 | The ping pong balls fell the right way. |
| 0:28.5 | And your Washington Nationals have the number one overall pick in the 2025 drafts. |
| 0:32.9 | How did the White Sox, who broke our record for most losses in the season with 121. |
| 0:37.6 | How did they not get the number one pick? |
| 0:38.7 | I'll read it right out of the story because the collective bargaining agreement stipulates a team that pays into the revenue sharing plan cannot hold a lottery pick in consecutive drafts. |
| 0:49.4 | All right. |
| 0:49.7 | Oh, in consecutive drafts. |
| 0:50.3 | Then the White Sox chose fifth in the 2024 draft. |
| 0:52.9 | Oh, you know what? |
| 0:53.5 | That happened with the Nats last year. |
| 0:55.2 | Yes. |
| 0:55.9 | I'm not reading that. |
| 0:56.6 | Baseball cake just knew that. |
| 0:57.8 | It was in his brain. |
| 0:58.9 | That's right. |
| 0:59.2 | Because the Nats, the Nats dropped to like 10th last year because they couldn't, they |
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