Minnesota Twins Gain Additional 1st Round Draft Pick for 2025

By Ted Schwerzler |

Updated: Dec 6, 2024

MLB Draft — Credit: Kevin Jairaj-Imagn Images

Major League Baseball moved its amateur draft to All-Star weekend a few years ago. When the Winter Meetings take place next week, the Draft Lottery will be held. In advance of that, the Minnesota Twins have learned of their positioning regarding competitive balance selections.

A second first round pick for the Minnesota Twins

For competitive balance purposes, Major League Baseball tries to give lower revenue markets additional opportunities to gain talent. As you may have guessed, the Minnesota Twins are consistently among the organizations rewarded for spending less. In 2025, that will mean an additional first round pick.

The #MNTwins have been awarded the 4th overall pick in Comp Round A during the 2025 #MLBDraft.

That takes place following the first round.

The pick can be traded.
— Ted (@tlschwerz) December 6, 2024

With the fourth pick in Competitive Balance – Round A, the Twins should make their additional selection at 34th overall. This will be impacted by the signings of Corbin Burnes, Anthony Santander, and Christian Walker. Their eventual contracts could push Minnesota’s competitive balance 1st rounder back to 37th overall.

Last season they grabbed Kyle DeBarge with a compensatory pick rewarded for losing pitcher Sonny Gray. His selection was made as the 33rd overall pick. The last Competitive Balance pick Minnesota made was Charlee Soto (also 34th overall) in 2023.

Right now the Twins have quite a loaded farm system, and they will look to add to that group over the summer. There should be more prospect graduations this upcoming season. With little movement expected in free agency, supplementing the big league roster from within should be expected.

Draft lottery could reward Twins too

At the Winter Meetings this week, the Major League Baseball Draft Lottery will take place. The draw happens on Tuesday at 4:30 pm central time. The Twins have just a 1.09% chance at the first overall pick (12th best), but that doesn’t mean they can’t move into the top six picks.

Walker Jenkins last game of the season was his best game at Double-A, recording his first XBH and RBI

2-for-5
2B (110 mph)
RBI
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The 19-year-old started the season at Low-A and is currently ranked the No. 2 prospect in MLB by @MLBPipeline🌟#MNTwins

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— Twins Player Development (@TwinsPlayerDev) September 16, 2024

In 2023 the Twins owned just a 0.9% chance to land the top pick and moved up to fifth. That put them in contention for a difference maker during a draft with multiple candidates to go first overall. They grabbed Walker Jenkins and he has since become one of the best prospects across the entire sport.

This draft doesn’t have the same steam as the 2023 class, but any opportunity for Minnesota to move up would be welcomed. The more that Derek Falvey and Sean Johnson can stack the farm system, the better.