Rule 5 players must stay with their new big league club all year or be offered back to the old team. MLB.com has a full recap of both the Major League and minor league portions of the draft. The results of the Major League phase are listed below:
- Astros take Rhiner Cruz from Mets.
- Twins take Terry Doyle from White Sox.
- Mariners take Lucas Luetge from Brewers.
- Orioles take Ryan Flaherty from Cubs.
- Royals take Cesar Cabral from Red Sox; traded to Yankees for cash.
- Cubs take Lendy Castillo from Phillies.
- Padres
- Pirates take Gustavo Nunez from Tigers.
- Marlins
- Rockies
- Athletics
- Mets
- White Sox
- Reds
- Indians
- Nationals
- Blue Jays
- Dodgers
- Angels
- Giants
- Braves take Robert Fish from Angels.
- Cardinals take Erik Komatsu from Nationals.
- Red Sox take Marwin Gonzalez from Cubs, traded to Astros for Marco Duarte
- Rays
- Diamondbacks take Brett Lorin from Pirates.
- Tigers
- Brewers
- Rangers
- Yankees take Brad Meyers from Nationals.
- Phillies
The Pirates took Nunez? Isn’t that the same talent as Pedro Ciriaco but with a different name?
They had to make room on the roster for him? With acquiring Navarro, what need do they have for this guy? GOODNESS! LOL
Unless they intend to package and trade him. I really thought they would have picked a left handed pitcher. I’m also surprised no one went for switch pitcher Pat Venditte.
Looks like the Sox got that right handed bat they desperately needed.
What Sox are those? White Sox ddn’t take anyone. The Red Sox got a bad pitcher.
gradylittle made that comment before Marwin was flipped to the Astros.
robert fish! it’s like the third time he’s taken! the braves will return him back.
I had seen that Trevor Crowe was eligible for the draft. Did no one want him? I find that surprising.
You shouldn’t. His upside is #4 of. And more likely a #5 of. Finding someone who can do what he does shouldn’t be difficult. The problem is outside of Choo and maybe Nick Weglarz (if he can stay healthy) those are the only Ofs the Indians have in their higher organization….
The Pirates got Aaron Poreda… sneaky pickup, he was the centerpiece in the Jake Peavy trade a few years back.
His control problems will keep him as a reliever.
His opponent line says it all: .252/.402/.327 – if he could find home plate he could be a dominate lefty reliever, but doubt it happens in 2012 if ever.
The Pirates love picking up pitchers where the walks are equal or greater that the strikeouts made.
Royals take Cesar Cabral from Red Sox; traded to Yankees for cash; Red Sox pout, extend Carl Crawford for an additional 3 years and $70mm to fill the void.
Have to admit, I’m kind of surprised Lendy Castillo went in the Major League portion of the draft and Jiwan James didn’t.
Could be related to a compensation package for Epstein or Hoyer.
Heard elsewhere that Flaherty from the Cubs will probably be flipped to the Rangers by the O’s to complete a trade.
The
Blue Jays made three selections during the Minor League phase of the
Rule 5 draft, taking RHP Javier Avendano from the Cardinals, 1B Gabriel
Jacabo from the Angels and C Hector Alvarez from the Mets.
Royals cleared 40 man space to make this pick just to trade away for cash? This sounds like they just wanted to clear space to make a big splash. Roy Oswalt now that CJ and Buehrle are gone?
The Braves got the wrong fish from the Angels.
How did the Cubs manage to lose 2 players in the Major League phase? I thought once you lost a player the rest of your roster was frozen…or is it just that you can pull back 2-3 players?
I assume Gonzalez will stay with Boston as part of the Theo compensation package.
Former Pirates GM Dave Littlefield lost 5 players out of the first 6 picks from the major league portion of the 2003 Rule 5 draft. He currently works as a scout for the Cubs, so there you go.
I am hoping the Dodgers will use their Rule 5 pick to take Jiwan James from the Phillies, if he is available.
Why did you post this after the draft was completed?
He’s still hoping.
I like the doyle pick for the twins. I know he was old for his level but his numbers were solid last year and only walked 33 in 173 innings. Seems like he is a good shot to stick.
I know that it wasn’t mentioned in this article, but I think the Padres ended up with a nice AAA Rule V draft pick this year with shortstop/second baseman Michael Wing. That’s a good diamond in the rough. Also, Pittsburgh attained Charlie Cutler during the AAA Rule V draft, a catcher who calls a good game and can hit for average.
The white Sox count is at 36 and for a team that needs depth in the minors, KW should be all over this
you mean keeeeny as ozzie puts it
Anybody know…if a team takes a player in the Rule V draft, then trades him, is the player acquired required to stay on the major league roster for the season? ie Red Sox claim Gonzalez then trade for Duarte. Will Duarte have to be on the roster?
yes
nvm, I read your post wrong. Duarte will not have to stay on the MLB roster, but Gonzalez will have to stay on Chicago’s roster
Thanks very much
the yankees got a sleeper in meyers….he will help them down the road somewhere….6-5 with a 3.42 era in syracuse….very good strikeout to walk ratio….surprised nats left him exposed….yankees did the home work on that one…very good pick up for a rule 5 guy
i would like to ask boston fans a serious question…there has been talk in the papers around here about a possible reddick and someone else trade for lannan and someone else…people in dc are saying that reddick sucks but the few boston games i watched it seems like reddick has a good upside…boston fans: am i right or wrong about reddicks potential??
Reddick is a nice player but hasn’t shown the plate discipline that the Sox treasure. Good defender can play all three OF positions and looks like he will fill out and get some more power. chee1rs is right, they like Kalish more. Hadn’t heard Lannan, more OAK rumors with Gio and Bailey possibilities.
Reddick is real good , but they like Kalish more