The Mahoning Valley Scrappers, in conjunction with Major League Baseball, announce the MLB Draft League schedule for the 2027 season. The 2027 season will feature seventy-eight games, with forty-one Scrappers home games at 7 17 Credit Union Field at Eastwood. The MLB Draft League begins on Tuesday, June 2nd at home against the Aberdeen Ironbirds. The Scrappers will again be home on the Fourth of July with post-game fireworks. The Scrappers home schedule features seven Friday and Saturday night games and a special International Series on June 15-17.
The MLB Draft League includes six teams (Aberdeen Ironbirds, Mahoning Valley Scrappers, State College Spikes, Trenton Thunder, West Virginia Black Bears, and Williamsport Crosscutters) and provides an unparalleled fan and development experience that features former Major Leaguers and professional players as managers and coaches.
The MLB Draft League is the first league in the country with a hybrid amateur-professional format. The first half features amateur, draft-eligible players with the second half following a professional format. Since the MLB Draft League inception in 2021, 494 players in the MLB Draft League were drafted or signed professional contracts. Of those players, 43 Scrappers were drafted and 39 were signed as free agents. Four former Scrappers made their Major League Baseball debuts this past season: Duncan Davitt, CHW (’21 MV), Zac Thornton, NYM (’22 MV), Kohl Drake, AZD (’22 MV), Nate Lavender, NYM (’21 MV), joining Andrew Hoffmann (’21), Zach Dezenzo (’22) and Darren Baker (’21).
