{"id":748542,"date":"2026-07-11T02:27:21","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/748542\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T02:27:21","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T02:27:21","slug":"2026-minnesota-twins-mlb-draft-day-1-thread-mlb-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/748542\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Minnesota Twins MLB Draft Day 1 Thread &#8211; MLB Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\tSimilar to 2025, the 2026 MLB draft will feature 20 rounds, with a slight adjustment to its weekend format. Prior to 2025, the draft was a two-day event, with 40 total rounds. Last year, the draft was over three days, and this year it will be over two days.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe first four rounds (which is one more than last year\u2019s first day) will be later today, starting at 1:00 ET. You can catch the first 10 picks live on NBC or on Peacock. Picks 11-40 can be found on MLB Network or streaming on MLB.com or on MLB.TV starting at 2:30 ET. Starting at 4:00 ET, picks 41-135 will complete day one of draft coverage, and those can be watched the same way as picks 11-40.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe rest of the draft will take place tomorrow, starting at 11:30 am ET, and can be found on MLB.com or on MLB.TV. While 16 rounds may seem like a lot in one day, last year it was 17 on the second day, and in prior years, they had 20-round days.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Twins will make five picks on day one.\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t3rd Overall (Round 1)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t43rd overall (Round 2)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t74th overall (Competitive Balance Round B)\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t79th overall (Round 3)<\/p>\n<p>\t\t107th overall (Round 4)<\/p>\n<p>\n\tJamie Cameron, Twins Daily\u2019s MLB Prospect Guru and Draft Expert, has a mock draft board <a href=\"https:\/\/diamondcentric.net\/mlb-mock-draft-2026\/.\" rel=\"external nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">that can be found here<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe Twins will have the fifth-largest bonus pool ($16,929,600) in the league. The pool is determined by assigning a slot value to each pick in the first 10 rounds. In rounds 11-20, players can sign for up to $150,000 and not count toward the bonus pool number.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tAs a reminder, teams can exceed their bonus pool allotment by up to five percent before incurring any future pick penalties. No team in the bonus pool era has ever exceeded that five percent threshold.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMore information on the entire draft and the pick allotments for the Twins&#8217; specific picks can be found in the Twins Draft Primer Article.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\tTwins Daily will also feature the Twins Draft Tracker, which will be kept up to date not only during the draft but through the entire signing period, so keep coming back for updates!\n<\/p>\n<p>Check out our 2026 mock draft board, updated regularly, and with detailed player write-ups!<\/p>\n<p>          <a class=\"ipsButton ipsButton_medium ipsButton_important\" style=\"color:white;\" href=\"https:\/\/twinsdaily.com\/minnesota-twins-mock-draft-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">View The Mock Draft Board<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Similar to 2025, the 2026 MLB draft will feature 20 rounds, with a slight adjustment to its weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":748543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2276],"tags":[5,977,978,2291,822,4,1586,169,975,976,148],"class_list":["post-748542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb-draft","tag-baseball","tag-blog","tag-forum","tag-major-league-baseball-draft","tag-minnesota","tag-mlb","tag-mlb-draft","tag-news","tag-rumors","tag-schedule","tag-twins"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116898984351039206","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=748542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/748542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/748543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=748542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=748542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=748542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}