MINORS: 2012 Rule 5 recap
Dec 8 2012
by Rob Gordon and Jeremy Deloney
With the major league baseball Winter Meetings wrapping up in Nashville, teams took part in the annual Rule 5 draft. Players eligible to be drafted included those who have at least five years of minor league experience and have been left of their team’s 40-man roster. The selecting team must have room on their own 40-man roster and the player must be on the team’s active 25-man roster for the entire 2013 season or else be returned to their original organization.
This year’s crop of eligible players was deeper than in previous years, but still lacked any sure-fire impact prospects. Fifteen players were selected in the major league portion of the draft. The Tigers, the Astros, and the Marlins added two...
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