Major League Baseball will kick off its amateur draft on Thursday, June 6. MLB Network and MLB.com will cover the draft live starting at 7:00 p.m. EDT. The pick-by-pick coverage will include the very first Round Mike Daniels Jersey , Competitive Balance Round A, Second Round, and Competitive Balance Round B 73 picks as a whole. The all the draft will take put on June 7 and eight. We will get you ready for that amateur draft also referred to as the Rule-4 draft with two posts. Today in Part 1, well provide a refresher on the new rules set up in the most recent MLB-MLBPA collective bargaining agreement. Well then show how those rules were used in coming up with this years draft selection order. In Part 2, well explain thebonus slots for every selection, the total bonus pools for every team, and look back at bit at just how spending has changed in the last 5 years. The Basics The Rule-4 draft applies to players in the Usa, Canada, Puerto Rico, and any other U.S. territory. To be eligible for the draft, players from all of these countries and territories must have either completed high school but not yet attended college; attended at least three years of school or perhaps be at least 21 years old;orattended junior or community college for any length of time. Players from the other countries must register with MLB, but are not susceptible to a draft. That could change soon, as MLB attempts to institute an international draft. The New Rules The new CBA did away with Elias Sports Bureaus ranking of free agents as either Type-A and Type-B players. Underneath the old rules, a team that signed a kind A person gave its first round and supplemental round draft picks towards the club the player left. A group that signed a Type B free agent didnt lose any picks, but the team that lost that player received a supplemental pick. Type A totally free agents were within the top 20% for their position; Type B free agents were within the 21-40% range of the positioning. Elias ranking methodology was not published. There were special rules in position during the 2012 draft Jeremy Vujnovic Jersey to bridge from the Type A/Type B free-agent compensation rules in the old CBA to the new compensation system underneath the new one. The new CBA replaced Type-A and Type-B rankings with qualifying offers. Instead of Elias determining a totally free agents value, they hes leaving makes that decision if this either does or doesnt a qualifying offer to some player who's eligible for free agency. A value of a qualifying offers are the typical earnings of the top 125 players in the prior season. Within the 2012-2013 off-season, a qualify offer was worth $13.3 million. Teams have until 5 days after the World Series to make a qualifying offer. Players must accept or reject the offer within a week of receiving it. A team that signs a totally free agent who rejected a qualifying offer loses its first round draft pick. The pick doesnt go to the team that lost the free agent. Instead, the free agents former team receives a compensation pick at the end of the very first round, with these choices arriving reverse order from the 2012 major league standings.Teams with the ten worst records the prior season do not lose their first-round picks (that are protected), bu they lose their second-round pick. The teams with protected first round picks for 2013 are the Astros, Cubs, Rockies, Twins, Indians, Ty Montgomery Jersey Marlins, Red Sox, Royals, Blue Jays. The Pirates ninth pick within the first round was also protected as their first round selection within the 2012 draft (Mark Appel) didnt sign with the team. Teams made qualifying purports to nine players at the end of the 2012 season: David Ortiz, Kyle Lohse, Michael Bourn, Josh Hamilton, Nick Swisher, B.J. Upton, Adam LaRoche, Hiroki Kuroda, and Rafael Soriano. None accepted the offers. Ortiz, LaRoche, and Kuroda signed using their former teams, which negated any effect of the qualifying offer. The following teams lost first round picks once they signed the remaining six: Brewers (Lohse), Angels (Hamilton), Braves (Upton), Nationals (Soriano), and Indians (Bourn, Swisher) (Indians lost an initial and 2nd round pick). The Cardinals (Lohse), Rangers (Hamilton), Rays (Upton), Braves (Bourn), and Yankees (Soriano, Swisher) received compensation picks after the very first round. The new CBA also ushered within the era of competitive-balance draft picks. The ten smallest-market teams and also the ten lowest-revenue teams were entered inside a lottery held last July. Six winners of that lottery received competitive balance picks to be used after the completing the first round. As MLB.coms Jonathan Mayo explained: Those half-dozen picks is going to be made following the very first round, following the compensation selections. Since there is obvious cro sover between those two groups, there are 13 teams applied for the first-round lottery: the D-backs, Orioles, Indians, Royals, As, Pirates, Padres, Rays, Reds, Rockies, Marlins, Brewers and Cardinals. The chances of winning a Draft pick depends on every teams winning percentage in the last season. There is a second group of six picks, to make following the conclusion from the second round. The teams from the first group that did not get one of the early picks will be re-entered, together with any other Major League team that receives revenue sharing. This year, only one team the Tigers is going to be added to the second lottery. The lottery winners were, in order: Competitive Balance Round A RoyalsPiratesDiamondbacksOriolesRedsMarlinsCompetitive Balance Round B PadresIndiansRockiesAthleticsBrewersTigersCompetitive-balance picks could be traded. First-round draft picks cannot. The 2013 Draft Selection Order To figure out the draft selection order, we start a list of all 30 teams in reverse-order of winning percentage in the prior season. We remove any first or second round picks that were forfeited by teams that Andy Mulumba Jersey signed free agents who received qualifying offers. We then include the compensatory picks after the first round. Finally, we wedge the competitive balance picks Jordan Tripp Jersey between first round and the second round, and between your second round and also the third round, making any adjustments for trades of competitive balance picks. For the first three rounds of the 2013 draft, we obtain: 1st RoundCompetitive BalanceRound A2nd RoundCompetitive BalanceRound B3rd RoundSupplemental Round1. Astros34. Royals40. Astros69. Padres74. Astros106. Athletics2. Cubs35. Marlins41. Cubs70. Rockies75. Cubs3. Rockies36. DBacks42. Rockies71. Athletics76. Mets4. Twins37. Orioles43. Twins72. Brewers77. Rockies5. Indians38. Reds44. Marlins73. Marlins78. Twins6. Marlins39. Tigers45. Red Sox79. Indians7. Red Sox46. Royals80. Marlins8. Royals47. Blue Jays81. Red Sox9. Pirates48. Mets82. Royals10. Blue Jays49. Mariners83. Blue Jays11. Mets50. Padres84. Mets12. Mariners51. Pirates85. Mariners13. Padres52. DBacks86. Padres14. Pirates53. Phillies87. Pirates15. DBacks54. Brewers88. DBacks16. Phillies55. White Sox89. Phillies17. White Sox56. Dodgers90. Brewers18. Dodgers57. Cardinals91. White Sox19. Cardinals58. Tigers92. Dodgers20. Tigers59. Angels93. Cardinals21. Rays60. Rays94. Tigers22. Orioles61. Orioles95. Angels23. Rangers62. Rangers96. Phillies24. Athletics63. Athletics97. Rays25. Giants64. Giants98. Orioles26. Yankees65. Braves99. Rangers27. Reds66. Yankees100. Athletics28. Cardinals67. Reds101. Giants29. Rays68. Nationals102. Braves30. Rangers103. Yankees31. Braves104. Reds32. Yankees105. Nationals33. YankeesIn Part 2, well discu s the most controversial aspect of the new draft rules: the limits placed on just how much each team can spend to sign each draft pick and how much each team can spend on all draft picks combined.