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Pirates Receive Competitive Balance Pick in 2016 Draft

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The Competitive Balance Lottery was held on Wednesday and the Pittsburgh Pirates ended up with the sixth overall pick in the Comp A round. The final draft placement will depend on what happens in free agency this upcoming off-season, but in 2015, the sixth overall Comp A round pick ended up being the 42nd overall pick. Last year the Pirates were shutout during the lottery, failing to receive a pick in round A or B.

Receiving the extra pick will also mean a bigger draft pool for the Pirates to work with next year. Again, just going by 2015 placement, the 42nd pick was valued at $1,468,600 so the Pirates pick should be somewhere in that general area.

John Dreker
John Dreker
John started working at Pirates Prospects in 2009, but his connection to the Pittsburgh Pirates started exactly 100 years earlier when Dots Miller debuted for the 1909 World Series champions. John was born in Kearny, NJ, two blocks from the house where Dots Miller grew up. From that hometown hero connection came a love of Pirates history, as well as the sport of baseball. When he didn't make it as a lefty pitcher with an 80+ MPH fastball and a slider that needed work, John turned to covering the game, eventually focusing in on the prospects side, where his interest was pushed by the big league team being below .500 for so long. John has covered the minors in some form since the 2002 season, and leads the draft and international coverage on Pirates Prospects. He writes daily on Pittsburgh Baseball History, when he's not covering the entire system daily throughout the entire year on Pirates Prospects.

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