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Guys I'm starting the draft thread early with everything going on.
Talk has finally become fact. The draft will be just 5 rounds.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/in-the-time-of-covid-19-sweeping-changes-are-made-to-the-amateur-draft/
In the Time of COVID-19, Sweeping Changes Are Made to the Amateur Draft.
Fangraphs
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/03/mlb-mlbpa-reach-deal.html
MLB, MLBPA Reach Agreement On Service Time, Salaries, Draft.
MLBTR
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-2020-draft-but-slash-five-rounds/2925174001/
MLB, players' association agree to keep 2020 draft but slash it to five rounds.
Detnews
One of the major concerns for the Tigers, of course, was what would happen to the draft, since for the second time in three years they own the first overall pick. The two sides agreed to keep the draft, but it’s going to be cut to five rounds (instead of 40) and possibly pushed back into July.
Signing bonuses will be deferred, paying 10 percent up front and 45 percent in two subsequent years. And, the salary slots for drafted players will be frozen at 2019 levels. The first overall pick this year will be slotted at $8.4 million instead of $8.7 million – a 3.5 percent cut.
This has rankled agent Scott Boras, who is representing projected No. 1 pick Spencer Torkelson in this draft.
“It is amazing to me when our nation is in a position of peril, that one of the attack points always continues to be the poor drafted players,” Boras told USA Today. “For owners to do this to these young men, who are so passionate about baseball, is something that they need to examine their conscious.’’
The league and players’ association, though, argued that all sides are taking a financial hit during this crisis and a 3.5-percent hit is relatively small in context.
Undrafted players will be limited to a $20,000 ceiling on signing bonuses.
Talk has finally become fact. The draft will be just 5 rounds.
https://blogs.fangraphs.com/in-the-time-of-covid-19-sweeping-changes-are-made-to-the-amateur-draft/
In the Time of COVID-19, Sweeping Changes Are Made to the Amateur Draft.
Fangraphs
https://www.mlbtraderumors.com/2020/03/mlb-mlbpa-reach-deal.html
MLB, MLBPA Reach Agreement On Service Time, Salaries, Draft.
MLBTR
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/s...-2020-draft-but-slash-five-rounds/2925174001/
MLB, players' association agree to keep 2020 draft but slash it to five rounds.
Detnews
One of the major concerns for the Tigers, of course, was what would happen to the draft, since for the second time in three years they own the first overall pick. The two sides agreed to keep the draft, but it’s going to be cut to five rounds (instead of 40) and possibly pushed back into July.
Signing bonuses will be deferred, paying 10 percent up front and 45 percent in two subsequent years. And, the salary slots for drafted players will be frozen at 2019 levels. The first overall pick this year will be slotted at $8.4 million instead of $8.7 million – a 3.5 percent cut.
This has rankled agent Scott Boras, who is representing projected No. 1 pick Spencer Torkelson in this draft.
“It is amazing to me when our nation is in a position of peril, that one of the attack points always continues to be the poor drafted players,” Boras told USA Today. “For owners to do this to these young men, who are so passionate about baseball, is something that they need to examine their conscious.’’
The league and players’ association, though, argued that all sides are taking a financial hit during this crisis and a 3.5-percent hit is relatively small in context.
Undrafted players will be limited to a $20,000 ceiling on signing bonuses.
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