Rule 5 Draft/2006

The 2006 Rule 5 Draft (held on December 7, 2006) is probably the most significant of all Rule 5 Drafts the Tampa Bay franchise has participated in, not for any players the organization acquired (they selected only one player in the Major League portion, who was immediately traded for cash considerations), but rather for whom they lost.

Picks involving the Devil Rays

Phase	Pick	Player	Pos.	Picked By	Picked From	Notes
MLB	1	Ryan Goleski	OF	Tampa Bay	Cleveland	Immediately traded to Oakland for $100K. Returned to Cleveland on March 28, 2007.
MLB	3	Josh Hamilton	OF	Chicago (NL)	Tampa Bay	Immediately traded to Cincinnati for cash. Retained by the Reds at the end of the season.
MLB	20	Nick DeBarr	P	Boston	Tampa Bay	Returned to Tampa Bay on March 12, 2007.
Triple-A	1	Erold Andrus	OF	Tampa Bay	Minnesota	Played for Advanced-A Vero Beach and Double-A Montgomery in 2007. Retained by the Devil Rays at the end of the season.
Double-A	1	Paul Moviel	P	Tampa Bay	Chicago (AL)	Played for Advanced-A Vero Beach in 2007. Released by the Devil Rays at the end of the season.
Double-A	3	Nick Moran	P	Cincinnati	Tampa Bay	Released by Cincinnati in April, 2007.

References

• "BaseballAmerica.com: Prospects: Major League Rule 5 Draft Selections". BaseballAmerica.com. Baseball America. December 7, 2006. http://www.baseballamerica.com/today/prospects/prospect-bulletin/2006/262980.html. Retrieved May 29, 2012. 
• "2006 Rule 5 Draft results". MiLB.com. Minor League Baseball. December 7, 2006. http://www.milb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20061207&content_id=147804&vkey=news_milb&fext=.jsp. Retrieved May 29, 2006.