The Rule 5 Draft is scheduled for December 10th.
As we had today on the Mets News and Breakfast Links, MLB.com had every team’s top
prospect that needed to be added to the Roster or risk being lost in the Rule 5
Draft.
For the Mets they had: Shervyen Newton, INF; Dedniel Nunez, RHP; Michel Otanez, RHP; Tony Dibrell, RHP; Daison Acosta, RHP; and Luis Carpio, INF.
One very recognizable name missing from MLB's Mets list was Tim Tebow. Tim was signed when Sandy was the GM but I don't think the Mets will protect him.
In 2019 for Syracuse Tenow hit .153 with 4 HR and 19 RBIs with 98Ks in 239 at bats. Still, whenever
Tim came to bat, the Syracuse crowd would come alive. Given his star power, there could be a chance that some team takes him.
The next group of players are the Minor Lague Free Agents that the Brodie signed before he left. These are: Harol Gonzalez, Bruce Maxwell, David Rodriguez, Mitchell Tolman, Luis Carpio, Johneshwy Fargas, Mallex Smith, Arodys Vizcaíno, Jake Hager, José Peraza and Oscar De La Cruz.
These players will still be eligible for the minor league portion of the Rule 5 Draft, meaning a team could draft them and not have to add them to their 40 man roster.
I think the new Mets Administration will be very aggressive this winter with MLB proven free agents. I don't see them adding many if any at all to the current 40 man roster. Still, they may want to think about some of these players:
At 21, Andres has a 29.9% caught stealing rate in his career, .292/.328/.489 (.817 OPS) last year in Kingsport.
Wilfred Astudillo, 20, 77 games and 651.2 innings with 37.5% caught stealing in his career, .267/.323/.408 (.731 OPS) last year in Kingsport.
Wilmer Reyes who slashed .333/.350/.441 with 5 HR; 33 RBI; 12 steals in 61 games for Brooklyn last year. His .791 OPS was one of the highest in the Mets system last year.
Also, Jose Peroza in 49 2019 games he drove in 42 runs, 10 HR, 10 doubles, with a .263 BA, .330 OBP, .514 SLG. At 19, Jose has three professional seasons behind him as compared to Brett Baty who just started his professional career.
Plus Ranfy Adon who showed speed and power in Brooklyn last year and over the winter was named the fastest Met player in their minor league system.
Here are the minor league Mets that will be Rule 5 eligible for the first time this year:
In addition, these players from last year’s list will be eligible again:
9 comments:
Great stuff, John, though I can't necessarily make the same comment about the guys facing prospect elimination from the dance.
I would only entertain the possibility of adding Reneria and maybe Dibrell. You can’t add a far off low minors player to a 26 man MLB roster because he won’t play enough to be able to learn anything. But, you can hide a good pitcher in the back of a nine man bullpen and let him pitch once a week or so.
Adding to the good points of Texas Gus, we missed 2020 performance from Quinn Brodey to evaluate him, but maybe Quinn is considered a valuable 5th outfielder in 2021 for some MLB club if they feel his bat warrants it. We'll have to see if we keep at least on Brodey around.
His bat showed some progress in 2019. But I have my doubts on him vs. MLB pitching still.
Last thought: what is Pat Mazeika status?
Mazeika is currently on the 40 man roster.
Hi John,
Thanks very much for your article. I have some questions for you.
When is the rule 5 draft?
When is the minor league portion of the rule 5 draft?
Can the major league team protect players from the minor league portion of this draft?
If so, how?
You have listed many players who are available who are on your list of Mets prospects, what is to stop other teams from poaching these players for their organization during the minor league portion of the draft?
With no minor leagues being played in 2020 how does each organization know how each player would have done?
Raw, I look forward to John's answers to your questions, especially on the last question.
Raw in answer to your questions -
When is the rule 5 draft? December 10.
When is the minor league portion of the rule 5 draft? Same day, right after the Rule 5 Draft.
Can the major league team protect players from the minor league portion of this draft? Yes.
If so, how? Anyone who is on the 38-player Triple-A roster is protected from being picked in the minor league draft.
Last year, Brodie signed Jason Kirzan as an Minor League Free Agent, assigned him to AA, and lost him in the draft to Oakland. Last I saw he was once again a minor league free agent.
You have listed many players who are available who are on your list of Mets prospects, what is to stop other teams from poaching these players for their organization during the minor league portion of the draft? Put them on AAA roster - but they would be subject still to the MLB portion of the draft.
With no minor leagues being played in 2020 how does each organization know how each player would have done? Good question. That is why they held instructional league camps this fall. Some teams played games against other organizations. The Mets chose not to. They played inter-squad games, limited access to the instructional camp and only released a few videos.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for your answers to my questions. One more please, by what date does the organization have to add these players to triple A?
RaW, Teams have until November 20th to add players to the MLB roster to avoid the draft. I have not seen the date being different for the minor league portion, but would assume it would be the same date. If I find out it is different, I will let you know.
I would think more teams would use the minor league portion to try and build their farm systems but they don't. The biggest names ever picked in the minor league portion have been Justin Bour (now playing in Japan) and Alejandro de Aza (last seen playing in Mexico). I always worry about the Mets losing good players in this portion, but they have not already. Tom thinks I worry about the Rule 5 draft too much...and he has been right so far.
Biggest Rule 5 MLB draft players include Roberto Clemente, Johan Santana, and George Bell.
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