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Rule 5 Review: Pipeline Implications

As the winter meetings came to a conclusion in Nashville today, teams made their selections in the Rule 5 draft. Most attention is focused on the major league portion of the draft, in which teams can select from the unprotected players, but must keep the player on their 26-man active roster for the entirety of the season, except in the case of injury.

There was some outcry here when the Diamondbacks neglected to protect Kristian Robinson prior to the deadline. There was no outcry regarding Deyvison De Los Santos, because some of us (most of us?) did not think that he was eligible at this stage.