Tonight at 4:30 p.m. Central time will be the third ever MLB Draft Lottery. Under the rules of the MLB Draft Lottery, all non-playoff teams are potentially eligible to be part of the lottery and get a top six pick. Since the Rangers, unfortunately, did not make the playoffs, they are one of the teams that will be in the Draft Lottery.
Only sixteen of the eighteen teams that missed the playoffs are participating in the Draft Lottery. The Chicago White Sox and Oakland A’s are not participating in the Draft Lottery, as where they picked in previous years makes them ineligible.