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Originally Posted by md40022
I don't see any scenario in which an 18 year old would be rule 5 eligible. A player is only rule 5 eligible after X amount of years in the minor leagues. I don't know what that "X" value is, but I'm 99.9% sure its long enough where he should be older than 18.
One thing I will say though, anyone who gets drafted in the rule 5 draft has to be put on the major league roster by the team who drafts them. So anyone who drafted your 18 year old would HAVE TO put him on the ML roster, even if he's not ML ready yet. So for that reason, teams might not draft him unless he is just sooooo talented that they are willing to let him take a roster spot and sit on the bench. But even that would be bizarre since he wouldn't be getting the daily at-bats you'd want him to get for development. But that all goes back to it being really bizarre for an 18 year old to be rule 5 eligible in the first place........ I would almost say something is glitchy here in your situation.
I'm not necessarily sure that he'd get drafted in the rule 5 though just for the reasons I mentioned above though. I guess that's my point.
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Five pro years if signed under 18 years of age.
Four pro years if signed at 18 years of age or older.
I may be one year and it's four-and-three, not five-and-four.