The Dominican Summer League has already commenced. Quite soon, the Rookie Leagues will begin, with Short-Season Ball on the same general time line. All three levels of play highlight the same baseball developmental balance beam. Getting the players who are supposed to be high-flyers ready for the long road to success, and the occasional accidental successes, as well.
Often enough, people on my Twitter timeline want to shrink the size of minor league ball. It may be well-intended, or they may be hawking an agenda that dismisses the lower levels as being unimportant. As any draft ends, plenty of players (or fans thereof) think that a run of players undrafted "deserve a look.