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This is a list of baseball players who went directly to the major leagues. They are distinguished as a group by the fact that they made their North American professional debut with a
This is a list of baseball players who went directly to the major leagues. They are distinguished as a group by the fact that they made their North American professional debut with a Major League Baseball
Major League Baseball (MLB) is a professional baseball organization and the oldest major professional sports league in the world. MLB is composed of 30 total teams, divided equally between the National League (NL) and the American League (AL), ...
franchise without previously having played at the professional
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level (excluding fall leagues and winter leagues), such as minor league
Minor leagues are professional sports leagues which are not regarded as the premier leagues in those sports. Minor league teams tend to play in smaller, less elaborate venues, often competing in smaller cities/markets. This term is used in Nor ...
affiliates of major league teams, the Negro leagues
The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...
, Japanese professional leagues, or independent professional teams.
After their major league debuts, many of these players played in professional leagues other than Major League Baseball. Included are the ''Bonus Babies'', who joined major league rosters from 1947 to 1957 and from 1962 to 1965 under the Bonus Rule.
The practice of players going directly to the majors has become increasingly rare since the Major League Baseball draft
The first-year player draft is the primary mechanism of Major League Baseball (MLB) for assigning amateur baseball players from high schools, colleges, and other amateur baseball clubs to its teams. The draft order is determined based on a lo ...
was instituted in 1965; it has only occurred nine times since 1980, and only three times since 2000.
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