- Owners proposed effectively banning high-school signees by raising U.S. draft eligibility to age 20, pushing more prospects toward college and likely reducing the number of teen “phenoms.”
- The draft would be cut from 20 to 12 rounds (domestic and international) with equal $200M signing pools and hard caps — meaning less money and fewer spots for late-round signees.
- International signees would need to be 18, and MLB would allow limited pick trading while trimming competitive-balance picks and shrinking the draft lottery.
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