Skip Johnson, head coach for the University of Oklahoma’s baseball team, talked before the start of the 2020 MLB Draft about how the changes Major League Baseball instituted this time around would affect the Sooners’ roster in 2021.
MLB cut the draft from its usual 40 rounds down to five, then determined that remaining eligible, undrafted players would be free to sign with any major league team, but for a maximum of $20,000.
Meanwhile, the NCAA decided to give an extra year of eligibility to those players whose 2020 season was cut short by the coronavirus pandemic and the nationwide shutdown that ended play across the country in mid-March.