Source: redsminorleagues.com --- Sunday, October 08, 2017
Each December Major League Baseball holds the Rule 5 draft at the end of the Winter Meetings. It was designed to keep Major League teams from hoarding talent in the minors without allowing those players reach the Majors. Players with a certain amount of service time that aren’t on the 40-man roster can be selected by other teams and kept as long as they remain on the selecting teams 25-man roster all season. What makes someone eligible? There are a few different things that could make a player eligible for the Rule 5 draft if they are not on the 40-man roster. The first two are very easy. If a player is 18-years-old or younger on June 5th in the year in which they sign, then they will be eligible for the Rule 5 draft for the 5th Rule 5 draft after that. That would mean players who were 18 or younger that signed in 2013 eligible for the first time this year. Players who are older than 18-years-old on June 5th of the year in which they signed are eligible for the 4th Rule 5 draft after that. That would make players that were 19 and signed in 2014 eligible this year for the first time. Usually this breaks down to high schoolers and college players. High school draftees from 2013 are now eligible for the first time. College draftees from 2013 were first eligible last season, which makes college draftees from 2014 now eligible. But, it’s not always that easy. Two Reds examples would be Narciso Crook and Gavin LaValley . Crook was dra ...
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