90th Percentile: Is It Time To Open Up Draft Eligibility For MLB?

Baseball America

The NCAA baseball landscape is changing. The transfer portal, NIL and expanding scholarships is creating a backlog of players at top programs all throughout the country. One potential way to fix this would be to open up draft eligibility to all classes. Hosts Geoff Pontes and Matt Pajak discuss a radical idea in depth that could change the dynamic of college baseball and the MLB draft.

(3:00) NHL, NBA and NFL draft

(6:00) Expanding scholarships

(12:00) Dylan Crews and Kumar Rocker Examples

(15:00) Does college baseball forcing an extra one to two years on players stunt development?

(20:00) Impact of age on models

(26:00) NBA draft is more interesting and the college game benefits from turnover.

(33:00) Junior College Option

(40:00) Expanded scholarship and potential talent hoarding

(43:00) Getting to free agency earlier

(46:00) Reducing the risk of pitching injuries and building the best draft classes.

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