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Five Rule 5 Picks the San Francisco Giants Should Consider

Most notably, they left outfield prospect, Sandro Fabian, unprotected. Other teams had the same dilemmas, so here are five rule five picks the San Francisco Giants should consider.

The Rule 5 draft is one of the great, weird things about the MLB offseason. The rules? If you draft the player for the major league portion of the draft, they must remain on your big league roster, unless injured. What players are eligible?

Any player who was 19 years or older when they signed their big league contract, has three years to make it to the 40-man roster of that team.