IBC

Brewers wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 1:13 pm Re Suzuki: do we plan to make an exception for him to be draft eligible this year given the lockout if it continues into March?

Padres wrote: Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:27 am

Brewers wrote: Wed Feb 02, 2022 1:13 pm Re Suzuki: do we plan to make an exception for him to be draft eligible this year given the lockout if it continues into March?

Pretty sure you can draft him, but if he doesn't sign by the end of the draft, he goes back in for next year.

Players subject to the draft will include any amateur player who has been signed by an MLB organization during the prior calendar year, whether through draft or international signings. (EXAMPLE: If a player was signed to a contract during calendar year 2018 but had not been signed to a contract prior to 2018 then he is eligible for the IBC 2018 draft, which is held in February 2019). Any players not subject to the MLB International Free Agent pool (such as professional players from Cuba, Japan, Korea and Mexico not affiliated with an MLB organization prior to the previous calendar year (2018 for the IBC 2018 draft) are eligible to be drafted. If the player does not officially sign with an MLB organization prior to the beginning of the IBC draft, they are not eligible to be drafted until the following year.