The final real action of MLB’s annual Winter Meetings is the Rule 5 Draft, where each MLB squad with an open roster spot gets a chance to select a fringey, non-roster player from other franchises in a sort of back-handed, semi-complimentary way. Players selected in the Rule 5 Draft must remain on the selecting team’s active roster for the duration of the next season, with the team that lost the player having the rights to take them back in the event they’re removed from the selecting team’s roster beforehand. You likely remember Stuart Turner as the most recent example of this with the Cincinnati Reds, for instance.
Cincinnati Reds select IF/OF Connor Joe from Dodgers in Rule 5 Draft
