It’s the last day of MLB’s Winter Meetings, and that means the Rule 5 Draft.

Last week, I wrote about some guys the Cubs might take in that draft. Given that there are only 31 players currently on the Cubs’ 40-man roster, I do expect them to take someone. They’ve done so in other years when they didn’t really have a lot of roster room and now, especially since they’re looking for bullpen help, it’s entirely possible they could find a candidate there.

Last year, 14 players were selected in the first round of the Rule 5 Draft. By far the most successful was Shane Smith, who the White Sox put right in their rotation after taking him from the Brewers system. He put together a 2.3 bWAR year and was the Sox’ All-Star representative. Also having a good year after being selected in Rule 5 was Li

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