The 2020 MLB draft is in the books, but this year it was much shorter than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of around 1,200 players being drafted over 40 rounds, there were only five rounds featuring 160 picks. That means there are a lot of amateurs left over who would normally have heard their names called in any other summer, and teams can now begin signing them for up to $20,000 each.
June 14 marked the beginning of the undrafted free agent market, and the Oakland A’s got started by signing four players over the following few days (click links for more details on each):
Now the A’s have added another undrafted college player, reports Bill Moriarity of Athletics Farm:
- Jake Suddleson, OF, Harvard
Like the others before him, Suddleson wasn’t on any of the major pre-draft boards, not even cracking the Top 500 on Baseball America, so there aren’t any detailed scouting reports on him.