Elite Sports NY · May 11, 2020
How will the New York Mets be impacted by the shortened MLB Draft?
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The New York Mets will certainly feel the pain, but nobody will feel the effects of the shortened MLB Draft more than the players who go undrafted.
On Friday, Ken Rosenthal of The Athletic announced that MLB and the MLBPA have agreed to a shortened draft for 2020. The draft will shrink from 40 rounds to just five rounds. Most reporters saw this unprecedented drop coming, though they hoped MLB would go for the more ambitious 10-round plan.
By dropping 35 rounds, MLB has made it so that 1,050 players who would normally be drafted will now go undrafted. College baseball will feel the effect worse than anyone.