With the delayed baseball season crippling revenues, MLB owners are looking to preserve money. They found one solution by striking a deal with the players’ union to slash the size of the draft.
Anyone taken in the sixth round of the Major League Baseball draft is one of the 200 best amateur players in the country. Slugging Chicago Cubs first baseman Anthony Rizzo, a three-time All-Star, was selected in the sixth round. So was Oakland Athletics shortstop Marcus Semien, a finalist for American League MVP last year, along with former stars such as Sal Bando, Tim Hudson, Jamie Moyer, Shane Victorino, Devon White and many others.
But this summer, many players like those won’t be drafted at all—and it’s going to have significant...
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