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The Rule 5 draft is a Major League Baseball (MLB) player draft that occurs each year in December, at the annual Winter Meeting of general managers. The Rule 5 draft aims to prevent teams from stockpiling too many young players on their minor league affiliate teams when other organizations would be willing to have them play in the major leagues ...
Below are lists of Rule 5 draft results since 1997. Players selected in the Major League Baseball (MLB) phase of the Rule 5 draft must be kept on their new team's active roster for the entire following MLB season, or they are placed on waivers and offered back to their original team if not claimed.
NASHVILLE — The Twins did not claim or lose any players in the major league phase of baseball's Rule 5 Draft on Wednesday. They did claim four players in the minor league phase. The Rule 5 Draft ...
The Kansas City Royals added organizational depth in the 2023 Rule 5 Draft. The Royals drafted pitcher Matt Sauer with the second overall pick in the major-league phase. Sauer, 24, was added to ...
If a player is selected in the Rule 5 Draft, the acquiring MLB team is required to pay $100,000 to the player’s former club. The Rule 5 player is directly assigned to his new team’s 26-man roster.
Jose Soriano of the Angels was taken first overall by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and Brett de Geus of the Dodgers was chosen next, by the Texas Rangers.
Examples of these rules are the Rule 5 draft (so-named for the applicable section of the rule book) and the injured list. Other examples include: the 5/10 Rule whereby players who have been with a club for 5 consecutive years and have been a major league player for 10 years cannot be traded without their consent.
In the meantime, Mozeliak acknowledges that international free agents could be in the mix as the club pursues “back-end” bullpen help.