MLB is experimenting with the annual event and hasn’t determined a location for the 2023 draft.
As a spectator event, the Major League Baseball draft is an oddity.
By staging the draft during the offseason, these leagues take advantage of the dead time in their sport’s calendars. What else are fans going to be talking about during draft week? In baseball, historically, the first day of the amateur draft fell not only in the middle of the major league season, but in the middle of the college season too. This was tough on fans and even tougher on players, some of whom would learn they had been drafted after a game in progress.
While the Home Run Derby, All-Star Game, and Futures Game formats are basically optimized for fan-friendliness, the draft is not. MLB is still experimenting. To that end, the next draft will go a long way toward determining the future of the event, in a way the other All-Star week events in Los Angeles will not.
MLB still faces a daunting problem: its best amateur players are relatively unknown. Last year, the league introduced a “Draft Combine,” held June 20-28 in Cary, North Carolina. It was a far cry from its NFL counterpart in style and hype, but it was something to extend the name recognition of the best draft-eligible players beyond the College World Series.
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