Neyer: How baseball’s draft has changed
From SABR member Rob Neyer at The National Pastime Museum on June 16, 2017:
In 2017, baseball’s draft—the “Major League Baseball First-Year Player Draft,” if you want to get all official about the thing—will consisted of 40 regular rounds. Plus a few “supplemental” picks between the first and second rounds. Plus two “competitive balance” rounds. All told, there were exactly 1,215 players chosen this year.
Seems like a lot, doesn’t it? After all, the NFL draft includes only seven rounds (with 253 players drafted last year), and the NBA draft has only two rounds.
So, 40 rounds seems like a lot.
Historically speaking, though, it’s not so many rounds at all.
Read the full article here: https://www.thenationalpastimemuseum.com/article/how-draft-has-changed
Originally published: June 16, 2017. Last Updated: June 16, 2017.