2012 Rule 5 Draft

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Major League Phase

Pick	Player	Position	Drafted By	Drafted From	2012 Club
1	Josh Fields	RHP	Houston	Boston	Pawtucket
2	Hector Rondon	RHP	Chicago (NL)	Cleveland	Akron
3	Daniel Rosenbaum	LHP	Colorado	Washington	Harrisburg
4	Ryan Pressly	RHP	Minnesota	Boston	Portland
5	Chris McGuiness	1B	Cleveland	Texas	Frisco
6	Alfredo Silverio	OF	Miami	Los Angeles (NL)	None
7	Jeff Kobernus*	2B	Boston	Washington	Harrisburg
8	Kyle Lobstein**	LHP	New York (NL)	Tampa Bay	Montgomery
9	Starling Peralta	RHP	Arizona	Chicago (NL)	Peoria
10	Ender Inciarte	OF	Philadelphia	Arizona	Visalia
11	Angel Sanchez	IF	Chicago (AL)	Los Angeles (AL)	Oklahoma City
12	T.J. McFarland	LHP	Baltimore	Cleveland	Columbus
13	Coty Woods	RHP	Texas	Colorado	Colorado Springs
14	Nate Freiman	1B	Houston	San Diego	San Antonio
15	Braulio Lara	LHP	Miami	Tampa Bay	Charlotte

* Acquired by Detroit in exchange for Justin Henry
** Acquired by Detroit for cash considerations

Triple-A Phase

Pick	Player	Position	Drafted By	Drafted From	2012 Club
1	Michael Burgess	OF	Houston	Chicago (NL)	Tennessee
2	Mark Sobolewski	3B	Minnesota	Toronto	Las Vegas
3	Tyler Kehrer	LHP	Miami	Los Angels (AL)	Inland Empire
4	Jack McGeary	LHP	Boston	Washington	Auburn
5	Sawyer Carroll	OF	Toronto	San Diego	Tucson
6	Eric Farris	2B	Seattle	Milwaukee	Milwaukee
7	Diego Goris	3B	San Diego	Kansas City	Idaho Falls
8	Ethan Hollingsworth	RHP	Pittsburgh	Kansas City	Omaha
9	Brendan Lafferty	LHP	Philadelphia	Kansas City	NW Arkansas
10	Elevys Gonzalez	IF	Los Angeles (NL)	Pittsburgh	Altoona
11	Matt Cerda	3B	St. Louis	Chicago (NL)	Tennessee
12	Eliezer Mesa	OF	Detroit	Oakland	Stockton
13	Robbie Widlansky	OF	Los Angeles (AL)	Baltimore	Bowie
14	Tom Boleska	RHP	Baltimore	Minnesota	None
15	Marquez Smith	3B	Texas	Cincinnati	Portland
16	Thomas Mendonca	3B	Oakland	Texas	Round Rock
17	Scott Shuman	RHP	San Francisco	Tampa Bay	Montgomery
18	Ryan Dennick	LHP	Cincinnati	Kansas City	NW Arkansas
19	Cameron Lamb	RHP	Houston	San Francisco	Salem-Keizer
20	Jon Bachanov	RHP	Boston	Chicago (AL)	Birmingham
21	Alvido Jimenez	RHP	Toronto	Chicago (NL)	AZL Cubs
22	Federico Castaneda	RHP	San Diego	Kansas City	Mexico
23	Hector Nelo	RHP	Los Angeles (NL)	Washington	Harrisburg
24	Jay Voss	LHP	St. Louis	Detroit	Erie
25	Steven Hill	C	Oakland	St. Louis	St. Louis
26	Michael Gilmartin	2B	Cincinnati	Oakland	Stockton
27	Efrain Nieves	LHP	Toronto	Detroit	Connecticut

Double-A Phase

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