Today is the deadline for teams to add players and protect them from the Rule 5 draft.
This is an overblown event that amounts to a glorified waiver claim. The decisions on who to protect are obvious. The ones that aren’t obvious are discussions based on fear of missing out on a player who has a magical breakthrough with another organization. In reality, no one wants to see the Pirates lose talent for nothing when they’re on a mission to gain talent as efficiently as possible.
Just because we can speak the idea into existence, doesn’t mean it’s a real concern.