The 2020 Major League Baseball season is still up in the air with the MLB owners and MLB Players Association exchanging -- and rejecting -- proposals back-and-forth in recent weeks. However, one aspect of the 2020 season will occur on Wednesday when the league holds the five-round MLB Draft.
During Wednesday's installment of "Nothing Personal with David Samson," David Samson stated that he believes that the draft process will be a bit different this year and more college players will be selected than normal.
"You want to draft players that are closer to the big leagues," Samson said. "I believe that college players will be draft early and often. And I believe that those college players have a far better chance to move through the system way faster than normal. There is no system right now. These college players could easily be brought into spring training whenever it starts in the next two to three weeks and be part of a 50-man roster."
In this case, there's been a whole season of scouting missed and are missing recent data
Samson added that there's been a whole season of scouting that MLB teams have missed as a result of the coronavirus. High school teams were not taking the field and because of that, there isn't much recent data concerning these high school players and what their potential could be.
Normally, more high school players are selected in the opening rounds of the draft because of a longer developmental window and a potentially higher ceiling, but Samson believes that more collegiate players will hear their names called because they're closer to make the big leagues.
