Evaluating the Phillies’ 2020 UDFA Class One Year Later

BlueClaws' right-handed pitchers Dominic Pipkin and Noah Skirrow talk about how the Jersey Shore BlueClaws players are living at a hotel for the 2021 season due to COVID-19 concerns outside the Ramada by Wyndham Toms River in Toms River, NJ Friday, June 4, 2021. Bc03

With the MLB Draft less than a month away, it’s a good time to remind everyone that multiple players have made a career for themselves despite being undrafted.

Following the conclusion of the 2020 MLB Draft, the Phillies inked ten additional players as undrafted free agents. The shortened amateur draft (40 rounds became five) enabled MLB franchises to sign an unlimited number of UDFAs for cheap.

Almost a full year later, why not…