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NEW YORK The Rule 5 Draft is Major League Baseball’s annual opportunity for teams to take a chance. Often, that means a rebuilding club selecting a player with potential and hoping he sticks. The Twins famously received Johan Santana in the Rule 5 Draft, using it to grab one of the best pitchers of his generation.
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While the Mets have never experienced that type of success in the Rule 5 Draft, which allows clubs to draft eligible, unprotected Minor Leaguers away from other organizations under the promise that they will spend the entire next season in the Majors, they have had their share of hits. Here is the Mets’ entire Rule 5 Draft history from their inaugural season to the present:
to. you probably remember, jake, i guess it s been ten years now, the flight of a new york yankees pitcher cory lidle in a single-engine aircraft on the east river side. he was flying at a time that that corridor was open to small aircraft and he made a turn and flew into a building there. that was a legal flight without checking in with air traffic control. since that time, they ve restricted a lot of the flights on the east river side, but helicopters are still allowed to fly. and how low are individuals allowed to fly if they are given the green light? this building is 51 stories high which in a lot of parts of the country is unbelievably high, but in new york city, not that high. it seems fairly low to be around that distance.