https://www.mlb.com/news/rule-5-draft-eligible-prospects-for-each-team?t=mlb-pipeline-coverage

Rule 5 will be tough this year with no milb season last year a lot of guys will be pushed into rule 5 that might have used 2020 to get mlb ready in the minors.

This should mean the talent level could be better than a normal rule 5 draft but there also is missed development time.

Imo you can't really draft hitters this year after they missed a year of at bats. But there might be some high octane guys you can put into a relief role.

Most interesting would be to find a pitcher who has used 2020 to gain velo or add a pitch but that is almost impossible to find out for the other 29 teams.

Riley Pint is rule 5 eigible.  Remember when he was considered the most major league ready HS player (there's no such thing).  

I'd love to see Maitan claimed by someone just for the hell of it. Dude has had the wildest time so far.

Are there any really interesting guys?  Pint and Maitan are the highest former prospects lol

25 minutes ago, Quin said:

I'd love to see Maitan claimed by someone just for the hell of it. Dude has had the wildest time so far.

Still only 20 (turning 21) years old. He can lose a full year of development time and still be age appropriate in A ball in 2022. Obviously it's not ideal but it's unbelievable considering it seems like he's been around forever.

Article on Pint about a month ago.

Riley Pint, Rockies prospect trying to find his career again

Garrett Whitlock would be most interesting guy to me from sox perspective, they've had such good luck with groundball-centric relievers. 

Man, there were a lot of college baseball fans that were so adament the MLB scouts were wrong about Jeren Kendall, but they were extremely right. I'm not touching anyone in the first round with >20% k rate in their junior year, and you'd like to see big improvement that Junior year. Even guys you think of with big swing and miss called out (kris bryant, george springer) both cut down their krates in college their final year to <15%. Kendall's k rate GREW his Junior year to 25%. I remember looking over and over at pro players with big swing and miss and what their college strike outs were and all were <20%. There was really only one outlier I can remember, and it was Aaron Judge with 21%.

For teams like the sox not the highest upside guys are interesting but rather more polished guys who can fill out a niche (most likely pen). So guys like maitan and pint make no sense as they are nowhere near mlb ready even in a small role.

Kevin Kramer has got to be extremely likely to be taken, right? He's major league ready and plays all over the infield. Seems like he would be an obvious choice for a lot of teams as a utility guy.

11am tomorrow. Audio on mlb.com

I still think Whitlock is the only guy I'd be interested in.

After a write-up by Baseball America, my main rooting interest is that we keep Kade McClure, who apparently added a bunch of velo and popped at instructs.

As of now, the Sox have a full 40 man roster, which means they can't pick anyone.

3 minutes ago, southsider2k5 said:

As of now, the Sox have a full 40 man roster, which means they can't pick anyone.

Can you select and then release someone after or during?

1 minute ago, Squirmin' for Yermin said:

Can you select and then release someone after or during?

IIRC you have to have an already open slot to be eligible to pick.

I have them down with 38 on the 40-man, plus Eaton. They’ll probably pass anyway.

5 minutes ago, flavum said:

I have them down with 38 on the 40-man, plus Eaton. They’ll probably pass anyway.

I completely forgot about the non-tenders.

This has a chance to actually be interesting.  There are some famous guys who are available (well famous if you're a baseball dork). I'm really interested to see if a team takes Riley Pint.  I would be surprised if the Sox take a player or get a player selected.  

37 minutes ago, Harold's Leg Lift said:

This has a chance to actually be interesting.  There are some famous guys who are available (well famous if you're a baseball dork). I'm really interested to see if a team takes Riley Pint.  I would be surprised if the Sox take a player or get a player selected.  

My only goal today is not to lose McClure.

33 minutes ago, bmags said:

My only goal today is not to lose McClure.

That's what makes it so interesting. Teams have so little to go on it would be surprising to see someone use a 40 man spot for a pop up guy like McClure. You would think they're going to pick guys who they have a longer history on. We'll see.