2023 DRAFT LOTTERY
The 2023 MWBL Draft Lottery will take place on Monday, October 24th, 2022 at 9:00 PM ET.
The ten Franchises listed below will have a shot at the #1 Pick in the 2023 MWBL Draft to be held on Saturday, February 18th, 2023.
The Commissioner’s Office will post a link (Zoom) that will go live at 8:45 PM on Monday night 10/24 if you would like to watch the Lottery live. A Google Random Number (1-100) Generator will be used to select the balls.
| LOTTERY ELIGIBLE | W | L | Pct | Balls |
| Motor City Muscle | 46 | 116 | .284 | 20 |
| Dallas Cougars | 57 | 105 | .352 | 16 |
| Tijuana Bottle Rockets | 58 | 104 | .358 | 8 |
| Mesa Solar Sox | 70 | 92 | .432 | 4 |
| Cincinnati Skyliners | 70 | 92 | .432 | 2 |
| LOTTERY ELIGIBLE | W | L | Pct | Balls |
| Harsens Island Walleye | 50 | 112 | .309 | 20 |
| Valdosta Snappers | 57 | 105 | .352 | 16 |
| Columbus Explorers | 59 | 103 | .364 | 8 |
| Bethesda Bandicoots | 64 | 98 | .395 | 4 |
| Triple Creek Patriots | 65 | 97 | .401 | 2 |
2022 MWBL FREE AGENTS
The following list of players has filed for MWBL Free Agency based on the 3-Year Expiration of a Minor League (Un-Carded) Contract.
These Un-Carded Free Agents are eligible to be drafted in the 2023 MWBL Draft to be held on February 18th, 2022 at 10:30 AM ET.
All of these Free Agents have been taken off their team’s Mid-West Baseball League’s Web Roster & will not be attached to your Franchise on the 2023 MWBL PREVIEW DISK – which should be released by Monday, October 10th, 2022.
2022 WORLD SERIES
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| SERIES PREVIEW – It’s the MWBL World Series! Whatever happens, there will be a first-time champion. The last time this happened was Detroit’s win in 2016.
The Fremont Cannons finished atop the AL with a 121-41 record, while the Dirt Bags of Long Beach were 3rd in the NL and the top Wild Card at 109-53 while winning the Central. Fremont brings the top offense in MWBL to bear, while Long Beach finished 5th in the NL in runs scored. Long Beach’s strength is their pitching, 3rd in the NL in runs allowed but not far from the top. Fremont is no slouch in that department, allowing the fewest runs in the AL. Long Beach can toss out 4 starters that you’ll have a tough time beating. Fremont’s top 2 might be better but there is a drop-off after that. Conversely, the back end of the Dirt Bags bullpen is dominant, but Fremont has more depth. Both teams were upper middle of the league in fielding, with Long Beach’s .983 fielding average edging Fremont’s .982. Long Beach enters with Alcides Escobar rehabbing from injury for the first two games, while Fremont is fully healthy. Fremont gets home field based on the alternating Al/NL format. Jim “The Oracle” Craddock ran the numbers and is calling it a low-scoring, seven-game win for Long Beach. What do the dice say? |
2022 WORLD SERIES PREVIEW
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| SERIES PREVIEW – Fremont and Long Beach, both making their MWBL World Series debut, had similar paths to the Fall Classic. Long Beach swept through the Wild Card and Division Series rounds, then had to come back from being down 0-3 to Sacramento. Fremont lost one game in each of the Wild Card and Division Series rounds, before taking a closely-fought series 4-2 from Chicago. IN the regular season, Fremont dominated the AL East (and the whole league), cruising to a 121-41 record. Long Beach won 109 games to come in second in the NL West, six games behind eventual NLCS opponent Sacramento. |
2022 – NATIONAL LEAGUE CHAMPIONSHIP SERIES
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| SERIES PREVIEW – Long time division rivals Long Beach and Sacramento meet in the NLCS. This is Long Beach’s first time in this round of the playoffs while Sacramento is her for the 11th time. Both teams have strong pitching staffs so this figures to be a low scoring series. |
