Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred is proposing changes to the MLB Amateur Draft. In my opinion, these changes will adversely affect the quality of play and deny thousands of aspiring young men the opportunity to develop into a Major League ballplayers.

Manfred wants to cut the draft from 20 rounds to 12 rounds, eliminating approximately 250 players from the existing draft pool and cancelling their dream of attempting to become an MLB player. Be very surprised in this episode to discover only a small sample of men who would not have been drafted if the draft was 12 rounds from 1965 to the present day.

By the way … the player who I talked to in my apartment workout facility was Kevin Patterson. A 30th-round draft pick, he played in the minor leagues for the Blue Jays’ organization from 2011 to 2014, upholding his promise to his wife. This episode explains.

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Music: “Field Grass,” by Sergei Pavkin