{"id":12966,"date":"2016-11-16T13:30:03","date_gmt":"2016-11-16T18:30:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12966"},"modified":"2016-11-18T15:11:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-18T20:11:35","slug":"rule-5-protection-analysis-for-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalsarmrace.com\/?p=12966","title":{"rendered":"Rule 5 protection analysis for 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Austin Voth seems like the most likely rule-5 protection candidate. Photo mlb.com official<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s our annual ritual. \u00a0Discussing the Rule 5 draft and the impact it has on rosters.<\/p>\n

According to my Off-Season Baseball Calendar teams hav<\/span>e just a few days (Nov 18th) to add players to the 40-man rosters ahead of the Rule-5 draft (which occurs the last day of the winter meetings (this year,\u00a0at the Gaylord Hotel in the Maryland waterfront in early Dec).<\/p>\n

As always, using the indispensable Nationals resource sites Draft tracker<\/a>\u00a0and the Big Board<\/a>,\u00a0and then looking up candidate acquisitions made via trade, here\u2019s some thoughts on who might merit protection. \u00a0The quick Rule-5 rules; any college-aged draftee from 2012 or before who isn\u2019t already on the 40-man roster is Rule-5 eligible this coming off season, and any high-school aged draftee\/International Free Agent from 2011 or before is newly eligible this year.<\/p>\n

This year’s Draft class Stat overview posts were especially \u00a0helpful too; here’s the 2013 version<\/a>\u00a0for College draftees and the \u00a02012 version<\/a>\u00a0for high school-age draftees that are now Rule-5 eligible.<\/p>\n

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Newly Eligible 2013 draft College Players this year worth consideration for protection<\/strong><\/span>:<\/p>\n