It's that time of year again. It's time for Rule 5.

There is nothing else in baseball quite like the Rule 5 Draft, traditionally the final number of the annual Winter Meetings. Every year, Rule 5 sounds the closing bell on the Winter Meetings by providing big league opportunities for a few players who may not have gotten them so immediately otherwise.

This year's version will take place in Orlando, Fla., at 2 p.m. ET on Wednesday -- streaming live on MLB.com -- once again giving teams the chance to bolster their rosters and snag low-risk talent to help them in the season to come.

Rule 5 Draft, Wednesday, 2 p.m. ET

Unlike the amateur Draft (Rule 4), whose first-round order is now determined in part by a lottery, the Rule 5 Draft order remains dictated by the reverse order of last season

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