Rule 5 Watchlist: AL East

Something I want to do for this year is to use my MiLB subscription more. Since 90% of my live baseball viewing is amateur baseball or MLB, it can be hard to get calibrated as to what a middle of the road minor leaguer is. Middle of the road minor leaguers aren't making the show, but it's helpful to figure out what plays and what doesn't at the minor league level, and it's hard to pick up on that at Big 10 baseball games or Indiana HS baseball.

To use the subscription more, I want to have a goal and so I decided to start a series devoted to pitchers that are Rule 5 eligible, and writing scouting reports on them. I'm limiting to just pitchers because the camera angles aren't really conducive to writing good reports on hitters.

It's a little unclear looking at FanGraphs Roster Resource as to who is eligible for Rule 5 this season, but the is MLB's fault rather that FanGraphs. I'm counting those who have an "R5" next to their name.

Here is a list of guys I'm interested in. I'll put a 6 part series of Rule 5 interesting pitchers, 1 for each division. It'll change over time and not everyone will have something written, but it's good to put a list together and see who rises/falls.

Blue Jays:

Roither Hernandez-AA

Brody Rodning-AA

Rays:

Phoenix Sanders-AAA

Michael Mercado-AA

Caleb Sampen-AA

Jacob Lopez-AA

Zack Trageton-AA

Franklin Dacosta-AA

Jack Labosky-AA

Christopher Gau-AA

Miller Hogan-AA

Orioles:

Diogenes Almengo-AAA

Ryan Conroy-AA

Cameron Bishop-AA

Nolan Hoffman-A+

Conner Loeprich-A+

Red Sox:

Frank German-AA

Joan Martinez-AA

Victor Santos-AA

Andrew Politi-AA

Oddanier Mosqueda-A+

Brendan Nail-A+

Yusniel Padron-Artiles-A+

Yankees:

Sean Boyle-AAA

Shawn Semple-AAA

Barrett Loseke-AA

Michael Gomez-AA

Matt Sauer-A+

Anderson Munoz-A+

Jhonatan Munoz-A

Alfredo Garcia-A-