There was a time when the amateur draft wasn’t a thing in baseball. For most of the sport’s history, teams just scouted amateurs and signed them whenever they could, and whichever teams did that best had an enormous advantage. They could stockpile talent and replace older players whenever necessary.
Team’s that were bad at scouting and signing players ha…
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