Through these two days of promotion, I believe everyone has an understanding of the treasure talents in this year’s draft and previous years. But it’s not enough to know the players well, and it’s useless if you don’t understand the rules! So today, the editor will lead you to cr

​Through these two days of push, I believe everyone has an understanding of the treasure talents in this year's draft and previous years. But it's not enough to know the players well, it's no use if can't understand the rules! So today, the editor will lead you to cram for a while, to supplement your draft knowledge!

First of all, it needs to be emphasized that the 2020 MLB draft will be held on the morning of on June 11-12, Beijing time. Due to the outbreak of the new crown epidemic, the NCAA and high school seasons ended early, so a large number of players cannot be properly evaluated by the team. , so after repeated negotiations between the players union and the league, the rounds of the 2020 draft will be reduced sharply from 140 rounds in normal years to 5 rounds, with a total of 160 picks. At the same time, this draft will also follow the previous NFL draft, will be conducted online.

With nearly a hundred years of draft history

MLB was the first league in the North American professional sports league to introduce the draft. As early as 1921, the major leagues started the amateur draft so that each team could fill its own farm system. Reserve talents for the future.

Nowadays, MLB's June draft started to implement in 965. Due to the unique time, MLB has become the only league among the four major North American leagues that opens the draft during the season. Therefore, there are many students who were still in college in June in history. He participated in the College World Series (College World Series), was subsequently selected in the draft, and appeared in the MLB World Series in October of the same year.

The first No. 1 pick in 1965: Rick Monday

Before 1986, MLB would hold other types of drafts in November and August respectively, but they were eventually cancelled. In addition, MLB now also has Rule 5 draft (Rule 5 draft) and that are not paid much attention to, but the objects of Rule 5 draft are completely different from the ones we are paying attention to now.

2020 major league team draft round

This year's draft picks are ranked in reverse order according to last season's record as before. last season, 47 wins and 114 losses, ranked last in the league. The Detroit Tigers are the No. 1 pick. owns the team. This is also the second time in the past three years that the Tigers have won the No. 1 pick. The Baltimore Orioles, who have the No. 1 pick in 2019, will hold the No. 2 pick in this year's draft. The picks 3-10 are the Marlins, Royals, and Blue Jays. Sailors, pirates, priests, Loki and angels.

Due to some special reasons this year, there are only 29 picks in the first round of of the draft. But MLB has very unique compensation lottery rules, so between the first and second rounds there are compensation rounds (Compensatory Round) and competitive balance A rounds (Competitive Balance Round A), and in the second There are Competitive Balance Round B (Competitive Balance Round B) and Free Agent Compensation Round (Free-Agent Compensation Picks) between the third round, so don’t get confused when watching!

The rookie signing amount in 2020

According to the current labor agreement , the league will calculate a rookie signing bonus pool (bonus pool) for all teams based on the signings each team has, and will give each signing Different signing amounts.

Under normal circumstances, the signing bonus for each pick in the first few rounds of this year will be 3.5% higher than in 2019. However, due to the impact of the epidemic, the signing bonus for all picks this year will be the same as in 2019: The number one pick will He received US$8.4153 million, second place was US$7.789 million, and third overall was US$7.221 million. In addition, each team can lock the upper limit of the signing bonus of the undrafted rookie at US$20,000, while under normal circumstances the upper limit of the undrafted rookie is US$1.125 million .

In addition, due to the suspension of the competition, rookies who successfully sign will only receive a signing bonus of up to US$100,000 in 020. The remaining part will be divided into two halves and distributed before July 1, 2021 and 2022 respectively.

Qualifications and conditions for participating in the MLB draft

For players to participate in the current draft, they must first be over 16 years old and born in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico . In addition, the player status must meet one of the following:

1. A player who graduated from high school and is not studying in any university;

2. A player who has studied at a four-year university for at least three years or is at least 21 years old;

3. A player who is studying in a community college.

In addition, all players who have signed contracts with other professional leagues cannot be considered.. For international players , they will log in to MLB through the international player free market or the entry system , so we will not see most Asian faces in this draft for the time being!

Regarding the option of signed players

Not every player selected must be signed. Many players who were drafted that year may not sign because of unsatisfactory selection rounds or signing bonus issues. will wait until the next year to participate in the draft again or enter university to continue their studies.

For example, pitcher Gerrit Cole, who signed a 19-year 324 million contract with the New York Yankees in the offseason last year, was selected in the first round of the 2008 draft after graduating from high school. The Dream Team (click here to read the story of Cole's childhood Yankee dream) was selected by the Yankees, but in the end he did not sign with the Yankees. Instead, he chose to enter and at UCLA, and was the No. 1 pick three years later. Identity was selected by Pittsburgh Pirates to log into the major leagues.

For teams that are unable to sign a contract with the selected rookie, they will receive compensation signing in the next year's draft. It is precisely because of the compensation lottery system that there will be more than 30 first-round picks in some years.

However, there are exceptions. For example, amphibious player Kyler Murray (Kyler Murray), who was selected by the Athletics with the 9th overall pick in the first round of 2018, decided to take football as his development direction after completing the signing. Selected by the Arizona Cardinals as the No. 1 pick in the 2019 NFL draft, finally decided to give up baseball . However, because the athletes have already signed with Murray, in addition to letting him return most of the signing bonus, athletes can no longer do so.

The above is our draft knowledge summary , I hope it can help you in front of the screen! In addition, what do you think about tomorrow's draft? What are you looking forward to? Share it with everyone in the comments!