Currently, the Mariners sit at 57-78, which is “good” for the 6th worst record in all of Major League Baseball. So, naturally, if the season ended today, Seattle and Jerry Dipoto would own the 6th overall pick of the draft and roughly $10 million of draft bonus pools.
But the real question is how high can they climb? The 5 teams ahead of the Mariners, in order from first to fifth, are the Tigers, Baltimore, Kansas City, Miami, and Toronto. Detroit has a pretty firm lock on the number 1 pick as they are 5 games behind the Orioles in the win column.