With the fallout of COVID-19, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred unilaterally ruled that this year’s draft will be shortened to five rounds after MLB and the MLBPA could not come to an agreement on what the draft would look like, per Jeff Passan and Kiley McDaniel of ESPN. For the Colorado Rockies, they could be impacted in a big way for years to come with the decision.
As a part of Manfred’s decision, there will only be five rounds. The Rockies will have the ninth and 35th overall picks in the first round of the draft so they will possibly have a few more picks than that of other teams but even then, the Rockies will still likely only have six or seven draft picks.