MLB orders down period for teams' monitoring of amateur players | NYGazet

MLB hopes that a new Amateur Recovery Period Policy, as ordered in a memo obtained by ESPN, will "alleviate the pressure on young players" hoping to play professional baseball.

Major League Baseball is banning team officials from watching amateur players or collecting data on them for a monthslong period over the winter, warning executives that "the amateur baseball calendar is putting young players at dramatic risk of futu... [3634 chars]