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MLB Draft lottery explained: How does it work? Which teams have the best odds? Who are the top prospects? And more

MLB's Draft lottery is in its second year, and the chaos is scheduled to arrive Tuesday at the league's Winter Meetings.

One of the bigger wrinkles of the league's latest collective bargaining agreement was the introduction of the lottery to disincentivize tanking. The jury is still out on whether it will make a meaningful difference in the MLB landscape, but the day now carries some automatic intrigue among the events in Nashville.

There will be winners. There will be losers. There will be questions about how this newfangled lottery actually works. Here are the answers to some of the important ones.