One of the casualties of the owners’ 99 day lockout of the players last winter was the 2021 edition of the Rule 5 draft. Baseball’s winter meetings were canceled, while an owner imposed moratorium on teams signing free agent players was in place, and so there was no Rule 5 draft last off season. .
The lack of a draft doesn’t necessarily mean that there will be a larger class of players eligible this year, however, as teams had already made their roster additions in anticipation of the Rule 5 draft before the lockout.
The Detroit Tigers added Kody Clemens and Angel DeJesus to the 40 man roster, both of them appearing in Detroit during the 2022 season.