The 2020 MLB draft is in the books, but this year it was much shorter than usual due to the coronavirus pandemic. Instead of around 1,200 players being drafted over 40 rounds, there were only five rounds featuring 160 picks. That means there are a lot of amateurs left over who would normally have heard their names called in any other summer, and teams can now begin signing them for up to $20,000 each.
Sunday marked the beginning of the undrafted free agent market, and the Oakland A’s got to work right away by signing catchers William Simoneit and Cooper Uhl, from Wake Forest and Loyola Marymount, respectively.