2019 Rule 5 Draft: Who the Mets might lose

Brodie Van Wagenen Photo by Rob Tringali/MLB via Getty Images In late November, the Mets added Andres Gimenez, Jordan Humphreys, Ali Sanchez, and Thomas Szapucki to their 40-man roster in order to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft. The move protected them from being selected in the Rule 5 Draft, an annual draft that was instituted as a means to prevent teams from signing and stockpiling players in their minor league systems. For a fee ($100,000), a team may select a player that has been left exposed to the Rule 5 Draft.

In order to avoid exposing a player, a team must add to its 40-man roster players signed at age 18 or younger that have five seasons of minor league experience, or players…