DALLAS -- Former Rockies manager Clint Hurdle is willing to speak on most anything, and eloquent about it all. But Tuesday evening, he was good-naturedly speechless after other club officials jokingly pointed the media his way.

“I got nothing to say, boys,” Hurdle said, walking away after the Rockies -- despite a 22.45 percent chance of securing the No. 1 overall pick in the 2025 Draft Lottery -- ended up with the fourth pick.

For those into luck, the Rockies had more of it than the Marlins, who shared with them the highest odds at the top pick (which landed with the Nationals, who had the fourth-highest odds). But the real lottery comes in the Draft itself, when the decision lies totally with the Rockies.

“There’s going to be a good player,” said Marc Gustafson, the club’s senior director of scouting operations.

MLB Pipeline's top six Draft Prospects for 2025 are:

1. SS/3B Ethan Holliday, Stillwater (Okla.) High School
2. OF Jace LaViolette, Texas A&M
3. LHP Jamie Arnold, Florida State
4. RHP Tyler Bremner, University of California, Santa Barbara
5. RHP Seth Hernandez, Corona (Calif.) High School
6. SS Kayson Cunningham, Johnson High School (San Antonio, Texas)

But the Rockies’ recent experience shows that much can happen between a bristly cold Tuesday and the Draft itself, which will take place from July 13-15 during All-Star festivities in Atlanta. And a team can be quite happy at the top of the Draft, no matter where it picks.

Going into the 2023 amateur season, University of Tennessee right-handed pitcher Chase Dollander was projected at the top of the Draft. Dollander showed his durability and the fastball during the collegiate season, but couldn’t lock in changes in his slider. Righty Paul Skenes of LSU supplanted him at the top of the board, and went to the Pirates -- for whom he earned National League Rookie of the Year honors this year.

The Rockies selected Dollander with the ninth pick. After signing, Dollander rested his arm then began honing his game during the Rockies’ instructional program in Scottsdale, Ariz. Last season, Dollander went a combined 6-2 with a 2.59 ERA and 169 strikeouts in 118 innings at High-A Spokane and Double-A Hartford, and he will be given a chance to force his way into the Majors in 2025. Dollander will even have an opportunity in Spring Training to earn his way onto the club’s roster.

Last year, the Rockies had the third overall pick and selected corner slugger Charlie Condon from the University of Georgia. The highest pick in the club’s history came in 2006, when the Rockies took Stanford University right-hander Greg Reynolds at No. 2.

Will one of the aforementioned players be the Rockies’ pick? Will someone lower in the projections prove worthy of pick No. 4?

“So this is a fun time for us,” Gustafson said. “It’s not like we’re heartbroken. We’re excited to get after it.”

The Rockies will dive into the reports and research players, and maybe during downtime jokingly blame Hurdle for not having the magic to bring the top choice.

“The fun part of it is we’ll give Clint a hard time, but at the end of the day, we can’t control it,” Gustafson said. “We’ll do the best that we can each and every year.”