Weekend Bird Droppings: MLB wants to skip 2022 Rule 5 draft

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The Rule 5 draft is one of the rare setups in professional baseball that is overwhelmingly pro-player. It gives older, fringy prospects that, for whatever reason, haven’t made it to the big leagues with their current organization an opportunity to do so elsewhere. And it’s not an awful deal for teams either. They get to pluck an outside talent for relatively cheap. The Orioles have been particularly active in this avenue over the last decade or so, plucking guys like Ryan Flaherty, Anthony Santander, and then just last year Tyler Wells.

Well, MLB’s executives wanna skip it this year. According to them, it’s just gonna be too difficult…