There were two types of people heading into the Rule 5 draft. Those that were worried and thought exposing Ian Bedell was an unnecessary risk and that he had a decent chance of being selected. And those that did not think Bedell had any shot of being selected and it barely qualified as a risk. Actually there’s a third group too, the people who don’t care about any of this and aren’t baseball nerds.
The great thing about the second group being right is that we all win. Ian Bedell stays off the 40 man for another season, which is very good news because there’s not much of a chance Bedell will be an MLB pitcher in 2024.