Winter Meetings Open Thread, Day 4

Dec 13 2018 by AZ Snake Pit

 

At least we will have the Rule 5 draft to talk about today.

A quick primer on the Rule 5 draft is in order. This allows teams to select players from other franchises, who has played for four years (or five if signed when they were 18) are not on the 40-man roster, for $50,000. This sounds like a great deal, right? Yeah, but there’s a poison pill. The player you select MUST remain on the selecting team’s 25-man roster for the entire season, save for DL stints. If that doesn’t...

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