Rule 5 Draft

[Minnesota Twins]

To spice up time btw end of milb and auction at begining of the yr and opening day what if we had a rule 5 draft? I'm thinking you get to protect 23 or 24 major leaguers so you got a couple or one person you leave unprotected on major league roster and then maybe a few minors you have to leave unprotected. Then ppl dont have to make a pick but would need roster apot or minor yrs available to make a pick. Could be interesting if someone left a guy who is good but expensive unprotected.

[Deleted]

sounds interesting.

[Minnesota Twins]

Anyone like this?

[ex-Pittsburgh Pirates]

I dont know.

I could see allowing everyone to protect 40 players. If you draft someone off another team, you have to pay them $500k or something.

But doesn't seem necessary.

[torontobluejays]

I do not like the idea of having to protect a player that I signed to a contract. If someone else wanted the player, they could have either paid more to get him or put together a trade.

If you want to do that with prospects, like the MLB Rule 5, I would go along with that. Also, you would also have to pay a fee to take a prospect as well.

Finally, like Pitt said, it doesn't seem necessary.

[New York Yankees]

Also, I think it penalizes teams that r deep in talent.

[Deleted]

Let's draft 2 free agents at a time and extend the free agent bidding then that will kill time.