{"id":471864,"date":"2025-12-11T10:41:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/471864\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T10:41:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:41:14","slug":"dodgers-news-3-minor-league-players-lost-in-minor-league-rule-5-draft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/471864\/","title":{"rendered":"Dodgers news: 3 minor league players lost in minor league Rule 5 Draft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">After losing six players in the previous four Rule 5 Drafts, no Dodgers minor leaguers were selected in the major league section of the 2025 Rule 5 Draft at the winter meetings in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Rodriguez has one of the most unique deliveries in this year\u2019s Rule 5 Draft with his back turned to the batter, followed by pronounced seven-foot extension and a whiplike arm motion. It helps sell his 86-88 mph changeup (also one of the best in this year\u2019s R5 class), since it looks much like his 95-97 mph sinker in movement until it hits the brakes near the plate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">It wouldn\u2019t be a surprise to see Rodr\u00edguez pitch his way into the Dodgers bullpen at some point in 2026.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">But three Dodgers minor leaguers were selected in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 Draft. Unlike players taken in the major league portion of the Rule 5 Draft, there are no roster requirements for the new team for players selected in the minor league phase.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Pitchers Brandon Neeck and Livan Reinoso, each of whom spent most of their 2025 seasons at Double-A Tulsa, were selected, as was outfielder Edwin Sanchez, who played this season in the Dominican Summer League.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Neeck, who was taken by the Pirates, was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.truebluela.com\/mlb-draft\/2022\/7\/18\/23268923\/mlb-draft-2022-dodgers-college-hitters-alex-freeland-sean-mclain-logan-wagner\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a ninth-round draft pick of the Dodgers in 2022<\/a> out of the University of Virginia. This year he had a 6.56 ERA in 39 games for Tulsa, with 45 strikeouts and 35 walks in 46 2\/3 innings. The left-hander turned 26 in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">Reinoso, a Marlins selection, was an undrafted free agent in 2022. He started 2025 in High-A Great Lakes but pitched 29 of his 38 games for Tulsa, with a combined 4.14 ERA with 50 strikeouts and 48 walks in 54 1\/3 innings. Reinoso turned 27 in August.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1nfb3k4i _16w9vov1 _16w9vov0 ls9zuh1\">The Astros took the 21-year-old Sanchez in the Rule 5 Draft. Signed by the Dodgers out of the Dominican Republic in 2022, Sanchez his .234\/.486\/.438 with 10 doubles, six home runs, and 12 stolen bases in 54 games in the Dominican Sumer League in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After losing six players in the previous four Rule 5 Drafts, no Dodgers minor leaguers were selected in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":471865,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2290],"tags":[5,38621],"class_list":{"0":"post-471864","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-baseball","8":"tag-baseball","9":"tag-dodgers-minor-league-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/115700517186998198","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471864","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471864"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471864\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/471865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}