The MLB Draft League is a collegiate summer baseball league that began play in 2021. Created by

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), ...

(MLB) and ''Prep Baseball Report'', the league serves as a showcase for top draft-eligible prospects leading up to each summer's

MLB 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 ...

. The league's initial six teams were formerly members of Minor League Baseball's

New York–Penn League The New York–Penn League (NYPL) was a Minor League Baseball league that operated in the northeastern United States from 1939 to 2020. Classified as a Class A Short Season league, its season started in June, after major-league teams signed th ...

, Eastern League, and

Carolina League The Carolina League is a Minor League Baseball league which has operated along the Atlantic Coast of the United States since 1945. Having been classified at various levels throughout its existence, it operated at Class A-Advanced from 1990 unti ...

before MLB's reorganization of the minors for 2021. In 2021, each team in the league played a regular season, with an All-Star Break taking place around the MLB draft. The season was expanded to 80 games per team beginning in 2022.

Current teams

References

External links

Official website
MLB Draft League 2021 establishments in the United States Summer baseball leagues College baseball leagues in the United States {{Baseball-competition-stub