MLB Draft 2024: Day 1 Open Thread

Cleveland will pick 1st overall tonight for the first time in club history. They have three picks total on day one.

Draft day is here! Over the next three days, Cleveland and 29 other baseball teams will fill their farm systems with draft picks.

Last year, Cleveland selected first baseman Ralphy Velazquez with the No. 23 pick in the draft. FanGraphs ranked him as the No. 6 prospect in the organization entering the 2024 season. Our Covering the Corner readers ranked him No. 9. Thus far, Velazquez has lived up to the hype, performing well at full-season Lynchburg and earning an appearance in the 2024 Futures Game yesterday.

Cleveland has three picks in today’s portion of the draft, Nos. 1, 36 and 48.

Day one of the 2024 MLB Draft includes the first round, a prospect promotion round, competitive balance Round A, the second round, competitive balance round B and compensation picks. It will be live tonight starting at 7:00 p.m. ET on ESPN, MLB Network, MLB.com, and a YouTube livestream. Day two, which includes rounds three through 10, will be broadcast on Monday, July 15, on MLB.com starting at 2 p.m. The draft will conclude with rounds 11 through 20 on Tuesday, July 16, on MLB.com starting at 2 p.m.

Brian Hemminger will be in the comments with all the first round picks, alerts when Cleveland picks and keep an eye out for posts on the first handful of Cleveland selections as well as any notable selections later in the draft.