The MLB Draft this year was … weird, but so is everything else in the sports world these days.
For 2020, the draft, which typically holds 40 rounds, was downsized to five rounds. It was viewed as a cost-cutting move due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Adley Rutschman, the Baltimore Orioles’ first overall draft pick in the 2019 MLB Draft noticed one of the main differences.
“I just think seeing guys with their families with less people was a big difference,” Rutschman said on the latest episode of Balk Talk.
The MLB Draft doesn’t create as big of a spectacle as other sports would, but for the first time, each of the sports were on an equal-level playing field.