For as long as Major League Baseball teams have been extracting young international players from overseas, the process by which they did so has been a wild, unregulated mess. The landscape of acquiring these players has become corrupt, and the necessity for change has never been more evident.
Buster Olney of ESPN.com reported today that the upcoming expiration of Major League Baseball’s collective bargaining agreement may in fact bring about change that would seem to be fair to both the teams and the players: an international draft.
Under the terms of MLB's initial concept, the new international draft system would start in March of 2018, with a 10-round draft held over two days.