The Wednesday news we were all hoping for was that the San Francisco Giants would sign Aaron Judge. That didn’t happen. Which made it a little difficult to get excited about shifting our energy to the scheduled event of the day: the 2022 MLB Rule 5 Draft.
But the show must go on, and it did. The Giants were minimally involved in the Major League portion of the draft, which only went one round deep — no team elected to use a second-round pick, and only half of the league’s teams used a first-round pick.