Major League Baseball starting on Wednesday will hold its 2020 first-year player draft. This year's edition will be limited to five rounds instead of the usual 40 as a cost-saving measure, and that's thanks to a negotiated agreement between MLB and the MLB Players A sociation. The draft had originally Chad Johnson Men Jersey been scheduled for June, to be held in Omaha alongside the Dylan Cozens Jersey College World Series, but the COVID-19 pandemic put a stop to those plans.Previously, we've ranked , , and . We've also covered , and . Most fundamentally, .If you peruse that draft order you may notice a curious absence or two. Specifically, the Astros and Red Sox have lost draft picks this year because of .On Jan. 13, commi sioner Rob Manfred handed down punishments for the Astros, who were found to have been illegally stealing signs using monitors and a trash can "banging scheme" to let hitters know when something other than a Conor Sheary Women Jersey fastball was on the way. MLB's investigation found that the Astros used the scheme during the 2017 regular season, 2017 postseason, and 2018 regular Scott Wilson Men Jersey season. Among their sanctions was the lo s of the first- and second-round draft picks in both 2020 and 2021. In April, Manfred concluded his investigation into the Red Sox's sign-stealing during 2018. The Red Sox's offenses were deemed much le s serious and much le s expansive than Houston's, and Manfred Dylan Cozens Kids Jersey in e sence pinned the entire scheme on a single team replay operator, who was banned through the 2020 season. As well, Manfred ruled that the Red Sox would forfeit their second-round pick in this year's draft.