Pandemic spurs radical changes to baseball’s draft
The 2020 and 2021 Major League Baseball Amateur Draft is up in the air.
The MLB and the MLB Players Association agreed to a deal on March 27 with major implications on the draft over the next two years, and it affects the future of hundreds of prospects.
Under the terms of the deal, the 2020 draft will is expected consist of just five rounds. It also will delay the start of the international signing period to as late as 2021.
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