LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. • Shortly after the Cardinals lost a minor-league free agent in the lower-level portions of this morning's Rule 5 draft, they promptly took a shortstop to fill a spot on the roster. And so it goes for a club looking at all levels for that position. The winter meetings came to their annual close with the Rule 5 draft, and a winter meetings with relatively little buzz finished with a Rule 5 draft that had relatively few selections. Fitting. Baseball America reported that the nine players selected in the major-league portion of the...
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