The 2016 MLB Draft concludes with its busiest day, as the final 30 rounds will be completed on a wall-to-wall Saturday. The last day sees the draft closest to its purest form, with minimal fanfare and essentially a glorified public conference call between 30 teams and the league office.
MLB Draft 2016: Time, schedule and live stream for Saturday
Rounds 11-40 will be held on Saturday.
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Unlike the first round, with four-minute intervals between picks, and rounds 2-10, with a minute in between each selection, every pick on Saturday, beginning with the 11th round, will be followed immediately by the next pick, with no time in between picks.
The selections will be coming fast and furious beginning at noon ET, and will stream online at MLB.com. The final day of the draft will not be televised.
All 316 picks from the first two days of the draft have an allotted signing bonus amount from MLB, and the sum of each team’s slotted bonuses in the first 10 rounds make up their total bonus pool. Every signing bonus paid to picks in the first 10 rounds counts against the pool, but so does any bonus amount over $100,000 for picks made on Saturday, from the 11th through 40th rounds.
Don't let the high-numbered rounds fool you into thinking there isn't still talent to be had. Just looking back one year, the 2015 All-Star Game featured Albert Pujols (13th round in 1999 by the St. Louis Cardinals), Lorenzo Cain (17th round in 2004 by the Milwaukee Brewers), and Joc Pederson (11th round in 2010 by the Los Angeles Dodgers), all of whom started the Midsummer Classic in Cincinnati.
You can keep up with every selection on Saturday, potentially 900 picks in 30 rounds, on Twitter by following @MLBDraftTracker.
MLB Draft Saturday schedule
Draft time: 12 p.m. ET
TV: none
Online: MLB.com
Twitter: @MLBDraftTracker
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