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The 1993 expansion Colorado Rockies and Florida Marlins participated in the MLB Draft for the first time in 1992. [2]With the first overall selections of the previous two drafts, Chipper Jones and Brien Taylor, receiving signing bonuses of $1.2 million ($2,888,130 in current dollar terms) and $1.55 million ($3,578,292 in current dollar terms) respectively, salary demands of new players became ...
The draft order was determined by a coin toss, the winner of which could choose either: (a) the first overall pick in the expansion draft and the 28th, and last, pick in the first round of the 1993 MLB amateur draft; or (b) allow the other team to pick first and receive both the second and third overall expansion draft picks, the right to pick ...
MLB player transactions are governed by The Official Professional Baseball Rules Book, [16] [a] within which, Rule 4 governs the "First-Year Player Draft". [16]: 47–62 Due to its place in the rules book, MLB's amateur draft is sometimes referred to as the "Rule 4 draft"; there is also a distinctly different Rule 5 draft.
The Rule 5 draft is named for its place in The Official Professional Baseball Rules Book. The Rule 4 draft—more widely known as the "first-year player draft", "amateur draft", or simply the "MLB draft"—is a distinctly different process by which teams select high school and college players, and takes place annually in July.
Examples of these rules are the Rule 5 draft (so-named for the applicable section of the rule book) and the injured list. Other examples include: the 5/10 Rule whereby players who have been with a club for 5 consecutive years and have been a major league player for 10 years cannot be traded without their consent.
The 1992 MLB Expansion Draft was held on November 17, 1992. As opposed to previous expansion drafts such as the 1961 draft, players from both leagues were available to the expansion clubs. Each existing club could protect fifteen players on their roster from being drafted and only one player could be drafted from each team in the first round.
2024 MLB MOCK DRAFT: Latest projections for every Round 1 pick. How many rounds are in the MLB draft? The MLB draft consists of 20 rounds of picks. The first round will take place on Sunday ...
The first-year player draft, also known as the Rule 4 Draft, is the primary mechanism for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to Major League Baseball (MLB) teams. Unlike most professional sports, MLB does not permit the trading of draft picks. [1]