The MLB Draft League is a baseball league that began play in 2021. Created by

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(MLB) and ''Prep Baseball Report'' (PBR), the league operates a split-season format of 80 games with a hybrid amateur–professional structure: for the first half of the season, the league operates as an amateur

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league to serve as a showcase for top draft-eligible prospects leading up to each July's MLB draft; after a break for the draft, play resumes for the season's remaining games with paid professional players who have exhausted their amateur eligibility. The league's six teams were formerly members of

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New York–Penn League The New York–Penn League (NYPL) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated in the northeastern United States from 1939 to 2020. Classified as a Class A Short Season league, its season started in June, after major-league teams signed th ...

, Eastern League, and

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before MLB's reorganization of the minors for 2021. In 2021, each team in the league played a regular season, with an All-Star Break taking place around the MLB draft. The season was expanded to 80 games per team beginning in 2022. In 2024, MLB announced that the league would be expanded by two teams in the near future and that it would extend its support for the league through 2030.

Current teams

Champions

Championships

The team with the highest record won the 2021 season

References

External links

Official website
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