Rule 5 IDT

[seawolf17]

Mets pick 11th, have four open spots on the 40.

https://www.mlb.com/news/rule-5-draft-preview/c-301627212

Here's a list of all 30 teams' Top 30 Prospects who are eligible to be selected in the Rule 5 Draft: New York Mets 19. Luis Carpio, SS 21. David Thompson, 3B 25. Ali Sanchez, C 27. Patrick Mazeika, C

[Edgy MD]

Thompson is as good as gone.

I'm surprised the Mets haven't rosterized Mazeika.

[MFS62]

So, your roster shows David Wright is on the PUtP list. Is he still protected from the draft?
Later

[Benjamin Grimm]

I believe he is.

[Guest d'Kong76]

Is the Wright thing still a salary insurance issue?

[Benjamin Grimm]

Is it not possible for him to agree to a minor-league assignment, removing him from the 40-man?

[bmfc1]

All of the excitement of the Rule 5 Draft live at noon, right here: https://www.mlb.com/video/live-mlbs-rule-5-draft/c-2520949183?tid=26271672

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I'd be surprised if we didn't collect a lefthanded relief pitcher or a sidearmer, just to take a flier. Omar Wilpon never fails to.

[smg58]

Benjamin Grimm wrote: Is it not possible for him to agree to a minor-league assignment, removing him from the 40-man?

I'm guessing the insurance policy will not allow the Mets to DFA Wright and still collect on it.

[bmfc1]

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https://www.minorleagueball.com/2018/7/31/17636114/tigers-trade-leonys-martin-and-prospect-kyle-dowdy-to-indians-for-prospect-willi-castro

They also picked Braxton Lee, a Marlins OF (who made their Opening Day roster), in the minor league phase.
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[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

I guess they like that he's into Jesus and stuff.

[Centerfield]

So what's the rule? He has to stay on our 25 man the whole year?

And if not we give him back?

Sorry, this is meant to apply to the Dowdy guy.

What's the rule for minor league Rule 5 guys?

[Benjamin Grimm]

If not, the Mets offer to sell him back, I think. (At a fixed price; no negotiating.) At least, that's the way it used to be. May be different now.

[Edgy MD]

Nine tweets and seven of them are on that very subject.

Got a lot of hardthrowing righthanders. What the system is thin on is funky lefthanders and outfielders of any stripe.

[smg58]

First he gets put through waivers, and another team may claim him under the same restrictions. If he goes unclaimed, the Mets would offer to return him to Cleveland, but some other arrangement could be worked out.

Dowdy looks like a long shot, but Callaway had to know him from his time in Cleveland and presumably liked something that he saw.

[MFS62]

The Mets didn't lose a single player at any level of the draft. That could mean:
1) They did a good job of protecting their talented players, or
2) They didn't have a surplus of players they couldn't protect that anyone would want.

I'm guessing it was #2.
Nice job, Sandy.

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[seawolf17]

MFS62 wrote: 2) They didn't have a surplus of players they couldn't protect that anyone would want.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Bingo my ass.

It really doesn't mean anything other than what it means. The implication that the breadth of fringe prospects at a certain point in their careers as judged by other clubs with their own issues in a regimented draft is any kind of referendum on a GM is about as stupid as anything I've read here in a long time

[RealityChuck]

It merely means that they don't have any players who a team can carry on its active roster for the next season. This heavily favors relief pitchers (10 of 14 taken this year were pitchers) and few of the Mets' top prospects in that area were available for the draft.

[seawolf17]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: Bingo my ass. It really doesn't mean anything other than what it means. The implication that the breadth of fringe prospects at a certain point in their careers as judged by other clubs with their own issues in a regimented draft is any kind of referendum on a GM is about as stupid as anything I've read here in a long time

Be cool, man! Just trying to make the funny. Carry on.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Yeah I know, sorry.

[bmfc1]

smg58 wrote: Dowdy looks like a long shot, but Callaway had to know him from his time in Cleveland and presumably liked something that he saw.

He was traded to CLE after Mickey moved to New York.

[smg58]

Oops.

[Guest LeiterWagnerFasterStrongr]

John Cougar Lunchbucket wrote: I'd be surprised if we didn't collect a lefthanded relief pitcher or a sidearmer, just to take a flier. Omar Wilpon never fails to.

The Phils had an interesting, Draft-eligible iteration of the former at AAA in Tyler Gilbert. (Also, a righty Barajas-y type catcher in Deivi Grullon.) Alas.

[smg58]

I'd be all for taking no-risk fliers on guys like that. Or seeing if I could get him or somebody similar now, knowing that I have the luxury of keeping him off the 40 if Zamora is better.

[Guest John Cougar Lunchbucket]

Fun Chris Mazza fact: He's Joe DiMaggio's cousin: His great-grandmother was Joe DiMaggio's aunt (his father's sister)