Why are the Orioles always so involved with the Rule 5 draft? And more importantly, what do they have to show for it recently? Let’s take a look.
First, a little background on the Rule 5 draft: it’s held at the MLB Winter Meetings in December every year, and teams can select players from each other’s minor league farm systems by inverse order of the previous year’s standings.
In order for a player to be eligible for the Rule 5 draft, they cannot be on their original team’s 40 man roster, and they must have spent four or five years in the minors, depending on whether they were signed after or before the age of 19.