MLB Rule 5 Draft results: Tracking a complete list of selections from Winter Meetings originally appeared on The Sporting News. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here.

Fifteen players were selected during the 2024 Rule 5 Draft, per MLB.com's Joe Trezza. Of those players, Trezza noted the White Sox's Shane Smith, Miami Marlins' Liam Hicks and Toronto Blue Jays' Angel Bastardo were the only ones to stay with their club for the entirety of the 2025 season.

Call them the lucky 13. Thirteen players \-\- 12 right-handed pitchers and one catcher -- received their best chances yet to crack a Major League roster upon their selections in the Rule 5 Draft on Wednesday.

The Rule 5 Draft is a mechanism that protects against talent hoarding. Teams have only so many years after signing a player before they have to add them to the 40-player roster. Eligible players who are left unprotected can be selected by other teams at a cost,

Major League Baseball released its first official draft rankings list for the 2026 draft on Thursday in listing the top 100 prospects of the class, after a seas

It’s been nearly 50 years since the Chicago White Sox had the No. 1 pick in the Draft. But the last time they did, that selection turned into a Hall of Famer. That was Harold Baines, and perhaps he brought No.

With the holidays in the air, along with free agency and the winter meetings, the word “draft” doesn’t really exist. The one exception to this timely vocabulary pertains to the first edition of MLB Pipeline’s Top 100 for the 2026 MLB Draft.