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The 2023 Major League Baseball draft took place on July 9–11, 2023, in Seattle. The draft assigned amateur baseball players to MLB teams. The draft assigned amateur baseball players to MLB teams. For the first time, a draft lottery was used to set a portion of the draft order.
The 2023 Major League Baseball draft was held at Lumen Field. The Major League Baseball draft (officially the Rule 4 Draft; also known as the first-year player draft) is the primary mechanism by which Major League Baseball (MLB) assigns amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. [1]
The Los Angeles Angels selected Schanuel in the first round of the 2023 Major League Baseball draft with the 11th overall pick. [10] He was the highest draft pick in Florida Atlantic baseball history and also was the first student-athlete in school history to be selected in the first round of a professional sports draft. [11]
On August 24, 2022, Major League Baseball released its 2023 schedule. There were 162 games scheduled for all teams. This season was the first MLB season of a new balanced schedule in which every team played each other at least once, similar to the NBA and NHL. The new balanced schedule included 13 games against their division rivals, totaling ...
Gelof is a son of Kelly and Adam Gelof, both of whom are attorneys. [1] He is Jewish. [2] His younger brother Jake Gelof played baseball as a third baseman for the University of Virginia, was drafted in the second round of the 2023 draft by the Los Angeles Dodgers, and now plays in the Dodgers organization; Jake was Zack's teammate in both high school and college.
Eldridge was chosen with the 16th pick of the first round in the 2023 Major League Baseball draft. [7] He was considered a top prospect and the draft's best two-way prospect. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] He signed with the Giants on July 17, 2023 for an under-slot deal of $4,000,000. [ 10 ]
October 19 - Pete Ladd, 67, played 6 MLB seasons with three MLB teams from 1979–86 beginning with the Astros, Brewers and finished his career with the Mariners in 1986. October 21 - Rob Gardner , 79, played eight years for six MLB teams from 1965–73 beginning with the NY Mets, Chicago Cubs, Indians, NY Yankees, Oakland A's and finished his ...
Mitchell was selected by the Kansas City Royals with the eighth pick in the first round of the 2023 Major League Baseball draft. On July 15, 2023, he signed with the Royals for $4.9 million. [11] He made his professional debut in 2023 with the Rookie-level Arizona Complex League Royals and was promoted to the Single-A Columbia Fireflies for the ...