Apologies if Blitzkrieg, but this seems like a big deal for college baseball:
MLB Draft Change Proposal…
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That's some pretty sweeping changes. Big positives are no more high school eligibility and big cuts to number of rounds and bonus pool. The one negative is draft eligible after SO season. Overall, I think very good for college baseball.
Just at a quick glance, better than a third of the first round picks (30 of 82) from the last two drafts were high schoolers. That would be one heck of a talent infusion into college baseball.
You could almost say into the southeastern conference. How many college baseball programs are going to put out the money to get one of those 30, or does the value for freshmen reset a bit due to them being ineligible for the draft?
Draft bonuses being cut by 50% and having hard draft slot amounts, meaning you can't go over that amount, could mean guys decide stay all 4 (or is it 5) years now. At least for the teams who go hard with NIL for baseball. Second round draft slots go from $2.6 to 1.3 million. Cut that in half and it won't be hard to outbid the draft slot.
I don't understand why MLB would do the no high school eligiblity thing. So it's cool to sign 16 year old internationals but not from the rest of North America? I don't understand the value of a 1 year delay (assuming it's only 1 and not 3 like the current system). That's an extra year of delayed develipment.
The end goal must be to take away the "screw your bonus I'll just go to college" leverage from the draftee. But they could still choose to go back to college until they get a better draft spot ex: Mark Appel.
So does this mean you have to be one year out of high school to get drafted and we're going to get one-and-dones? College may benefit from extra one-off talent, but in theory so will non affiliated MiLB partner leagues.
The end goal must be to take away the "screw your bonus I'll just go to college" leverage from the draftee. But they could still choose to go back to college until they get a better draft spot ex: Mark Appel.
So does this mean you have to be one year out of high school to get drafted and we're going to get one-and-dones? College may benefit from extra one-off talent, but in theory so will non affiliated MiLB partner leagues.
That’s great it’s about time. Only problem is some HS kid who thinks he can immediately play in the bigs will sue, similar to the NBA.
I assume the internationals come a lot cheaper than the Americans. Only so much money to go around and the big boys want it.
Who needs minor league baseball when you can come to this? 
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Well, the NBA has that rule in place already, and it’s been there for near a quarter century now, so I’d say whoever tried to sue them had zero success.
You think the 16-18 year old kids in the Dominican Republic are getting an education even halfway equivalent to even the worst 1A high school in Mississippi?
These kids don’t have the option to go to college, so it’s pretty oppressive to make them ineligible for X number of years.
It would be absolutely fantastic for college baseball, but it doesn’t seem like there’s any chance in hell of it happening. MLBPA’s response to it could not have been any more “anti” than it was.
From the article:
The MLBPA released this statement in response to MLB’s proposal:
“Today, MLB made another set of proposals that are flat out bad for baseball, ones that would cripple the next generation of players and damage the future of our game. They would, among other things:
Eliminate over a billion dollars in player compensation from the international and domestic system over the next five years, with a $400 million reduction from 2026 to 2027 alone.
Destroy fundamental player rights and remove talent from our sport by barring high school and junior college players (anyone under age 20) from the domestic draft.
Abolish an entire year of international signings by delaying the first draft until at least September of 2027 (and as late as March of 2028), denying young international players the ability to start their professional careers.
Players remain committed to bargaining in good faith and leaving baseball better than they found it – the league’s proposals fall woefully short.”