Sign of Times for Baseball Draftees

By STEVE HENSON

June 4, 1998 12 AM PT

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Most players taken in the amateur draft this week who sign will be sent either to rookie or short-season Class-A teams, which begin play June 16. Players who sign quickly often report to mini-camps at major league spring training sites where they are evaluated.

Short-season Class-A leagues are the New York-Penn League and Northwest League. The top rookie leagues are the Appalachian League and the Pioneer League, and the Arizona League and Gulf Coast League are lower rookie leagues.

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson is a breaking news and enterprise reporter at the Los Angeles Times. He previously served as an editor and reporter in the Sports department. Henson was a leader in digital-only newsrooms from 2007-19 as a senior editor and columnist at Yahoo Sports and as senior editor at the USA Today Sports Media Group. This is his second stint at The Times, having covered the Dodgers and UCLA as well as doing enterprise, investigative and features writing from 1985-2007. Henson was awarded first place in sports features in 2023 and in 2021 by the L.A. Press Club. He has been honored several times by APSE — most recently in 2023 and 2021 — and also by the California News Publishers Assn., the Football Writers Assn. of America and U.S. Basketball Writers Assn.

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