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Originally Posted by Matt Arnold
Historical replays have the draft in June because by default, you select players that had their first real season the next year (so the December 1985 draft is players who made their MLB debut in 1986). It wouldn't make sense to have the draft in June 86, because then those players picked couldn't play for the first 3 months of the season.
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Not to mention up until 1986 there was actually a 2nd Rule 4 draft but it was in January