Talk:Major League Baseball draft

message: I'm wondering if someone with more knowledge of the draft could add some information on the so-called "secondary phase" drafts that took place during the '70s and '80s. I'm working on the page for Pete Redfern, who was the first pick in the 1976 secondary phase, and don't know where I should direct the link. -Dewelar (talk) 20:21, 25 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Secondary phase request 

message: Would it be possible to post a link to whatever MLB page might contain the official rules for the first-year player draft?
MikeLHenderson (talk) 18:44, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Primary source request 

message: Someone moved this page to its current location with the lower case "draft" without discussion. The page was properly capitalized before. "Major League Baseball Draft" is actually the name of an event and thus each word should be capitalized. Spanneraol (talk) 16:15, 29 September 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name change? 

message: I just noticed there's no mention of the new Competitive Balance picks from the current CBA and the clubs' capacity to trade them. The page really has a number of issues, but I think it's the most glaring factual one at this point. I can try to write it up if there isn't someone who is overly eager to do so. Xsturmin8 (talk) 00:47, 21 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Competitive Balance Picks 

message: This was introduced into the lead in the capitalised version. The capitalisation is touched upon in the above discussion. Using the capitalised version has been challenged and there is an burden to show that capitalisation is necessary. Per MOS:CAPS: . This is a descriptive name phrase that is not inherently a proper name. While it is not disputed that this may be the preferred capitalisation of MLB, the MLD is not independent so this is irrelevent to the criteria given in MOS:CAPS. Cinderella157 (talk) 06:37, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note the ngrams, which affirm that uppercasing is correct. It is literally the proper name that Major League Baseball calls their draft. This fact is certainly not irrelevant to the discussion, it makes this a commonsense capitalization. Randy Kryn (talk) 13:23, 31 January 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: Please note this ngram for the hyphenated form which was the text initially added and which was provided in the above RM discussion. Also see this ngram that compares the hyphenated and unhyphenated forms. This is certainly not a case of consistent capitalisation. MOS:CAPS is very clear that capitalisation is determined by usage in independent sources. MLB is not an independent source. The capitalisation applied by MLB is irrelevant to how WP determines whether this term should be capitalised in prose. Cinderella157 (talk) 11:05, 1 February 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: ? I don't know what the issue is. This is similar to the formal name of the National Football League draft, Annual Player Selection Meeting. Baseball had to call their draft something, which then created the proper name being discussed here. Randy Kryn (talk) 03:37, 8 February 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Capitalisation of "First-Year Player Draft" 

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thread_title:  Move discussion in progress