While some big moves are potentially going down for the major league team, Wednesday afternoon at the Winter Meetings also featured the annual Rule 5 Draft. Each year, teams are allowed to pick from a pool of players who signed professional contracts at age 18 or younger who haven’t been added to their organization’s 40-man roster within five years, or four years if they signed at 19 or older. These players would then have to stay on the MLB roster of their new team for the entire season, or else they would be returned to their original team.
Yankees lose some depth in the 2023 Rule 5 Draft
