Last week, Major League Baseball announced that its annual first-year player draft will be held on Wednesday, June 10th as originally scheduled. The Los Angeles Dodgers will have 6 selections across the new, shortened 5-round draft in 2020. The draft was reduced from 40 rounds to 5 amid the coronavirus pandemic.
The five rounds of the 2020 MLB Draft will span 160 total selections.
As a result of the national emergency created by the pandemic, MLB will not hold its 2020 Draft in Omaha, Nebraska, the site of the NCAA’s Men’s College World Series (CWS), as announced last December.