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Collegiate summer baseball league From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The MLB Draft League is a baseball league that began play in 2021.[3] Created by Major League Baseball (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 collegiate summer baseball league to serve as a showcase for top draft-eligible prospects leading up to each July's MLB draft;[3] after a break for the draft, play resumes for the season's remaining games with paid professional players who have exhausted their amateur eligibility.[4]
The league's six teams were formerly members of Minor League Baseball's New York–Penn League, Eastern League, and Carolina League before MLB's reorganization of the minors for 2021.[5][6] In 2021, each team in the league played a 68-game regular season, with an All-Star Break taking place around the MLB draft.[7] The season was expanded to 80 games per team beginning in 2022.[8]
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.[9]
In August 2025, it was announced that Attain Sports, the owners of the Frederick Keys and numerous Baltimore Orioles minor league affiliates, would move the current Keys team to High-A, while the Aberdeen Ironbirds, the current High-A affiliate of the Orioles would move to the MLB Draft League in 2026.[10]
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The team with the highest record won the 2021 season
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