The Rule 5 draft doesn’t really matter — I think we all knew this. It’s just a fun bit of arcana that spices up the offseason a bit. It was more relevant back at the time of its inception, when teams would hoard potential contributors without calling them up to the majors, but that doesn’t mean that come this Wednesday, teams won’t try to supplement their organizations with some unprotected prospects.
To that end, I don’t have any pretenses that the vast majority of the names below are going to get picked, much less actually stick on the active roster all season.