{"id":17309,"date":"2024-12-12T12:51:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:51:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17309"},"modified":"2024-12-12T12:51:20","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T12:51:20","slug":"report-how-the-rule-5-draft-impacted-12-teams-top-30-prospects-lists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportnews.azontree.com\/?p=17309","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: How the Rule 5 Draft impacted 12 teams’ Top 30 Prospects lists?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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MLB Pipeline gives our organizational Top 30 prospect rankings complete refreshes twice per calendar year (once in spring, once in-season) and provides other live updates as graduations and other transactions necessitate them. In the latter category, two dates in particular are our busiest for Top 30 updates: the Trade Deadline and the Rule 5 Draft.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The latter arrived Wednesday as part of the Winter Meetings in Dallas. MLB.com’s Jonathan Mayo\u00a0recapped the Rule 5 results\u00a0from the heaviest-volume draft in some time, featuring 83 total picks, including 15 during the Major League phase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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More Rule 5 coverage:<\/strong>
\n\u2022\u00a02025 Rule 5 results, analysis
\n\u2022\u00a0Impact on Top 30 Prospects lists
\n\u2022\u00a0History and results
\n\u2022\u00a0Most recent keepers
\n\u2022\u00a010 best picks of the past decade<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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To quickly summarize, Rule 5-eligible players who were selected in the MLB portion must stick in the Majors for the entire 2025 season or else be offered back to their original organizations.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Seven of the 15 picks from the MLB phase entered new Top 30s, and four left old ones, requiring further shuffling in their farm systems\u2019 rankings. Here\u2019s a summary of the Top 30 movement from a busy Wednesday in the land of prospects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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AMERICAN LEAGUE EAST<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Blue Jays<\/strong>
\nAdded:<\/strong>\u00a0Angel Bastardo, RHP (No. 29<\/a>)<\/p>\n

The Rule 5 Draft is typically conducted with the short term in mind because of how players need to stick on the MLB roster, but there are times when clubs can take long-term views in the process as Toronto did here.<\/p>\n

Bastardo underwent Tommy John surgery last summer and will likely spend much of 2025 recovering and rehabbing from that procedure. Toronto will get to oversee that process as it determines Bastardo\u2019s future with the club, and the righty must be on the active roster for 90 days in order to fulfill his Rule 5 duties (a stipulation that could carry into 2026 if needed).<\/p>\n

Bastardo showed an ability to touch 97 mph with his fastball before getting hurt, and his above-average changeup intrigues the Jays. He also sports two average breaking balls that give him a chance to start when he’s recovered.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Orioles<\/strong>
\nLost:<\/strong>\u00a0Juan Nu\u00f1ez, RHP (No. 8)
\nTop 30 replacement:<\/strong>\u00a0Luis Almeyda, SS\/3B (No. 30<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Known for their hitting prospects, the Orioles lost the second highest-ranked pitching talent in their system when Nu\u00f1ez was taken by the Padres.<\/p>\n

Nu\u00f1ez, 24, jumped up the Baltimore list on the strength of his stuff — namely a mid-90s fastball, two breaking pitches that flash plus and a solid changeup — but he was left unprotected after a shoulder injury limited him to 29\u2153 innings in 2024.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s still yet to pitch above High-A and faces an uphill battle to stick on a contending San Diego club. In Nu\u00f1ez\u2019s stead, Almeyda — a $2.3 million international signee in 2023 — slots in as another quality infield prospect on the O’s list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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