As you know, players placed on the 40-man roster will be protected in the major league phase of the Rule 5 draft.

So several of the players above will be added.

The deadline to add players to the 40-man roster to protect them from the Rule 5 Draft is 5 p.m. CT Friday November 20th.

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There are 47 total names listed above.

From Baseball America:

Anyone who is listed on the 38-player Triple-A roster is protected from being picked in the minor league draft.

The minor league phase is much simpler--there are no eligibility rules that have to then be maintained. The player is drafted, the player's old organization is paid $24,500 (editor's note: this is updated after originally stating an incorrect figure) and immediately the player becomes a member of his new organization. Almost all of the players picked in the minor league phase of the Rule 5 draft are viewed as useful organizational players for their new team, but occasionally a player does find success with his new organization. Top players picked in the minor league Rule 5 include Alexi Ogando, Justin Bour, Omar Narvaez and Alejandro de Aza.

OK, let's not get confused here. The Brewers do take (and occasionally lose) players in the Minor League Phase of Rule 5.

All (or most of) the players listed in the initial post above not added to the 40-man roster will be placed on the Brewers' 38-man paper AAA roster prior to November 20th (yes, even the rookie leaguers).

Thus, this year, if the Brewers wish, they can prevent the vast majority of their farmhands from being selected in the Minor League phase of Rule 5.

Here's who they lost in the minor league phase last December.

Here's my barely-educated guess:

Among position players, there's only one lock, and that's catcher Mario Feliciano.

For those keeping track, that would be five catchers on the 40-man roster, as we can't get David Freitas' .381 2019 batting average out of our heads, even in the super-charged PCL of that season. One of the reasons Freitas is still on the 40-man (also now out of options, just like Jacob Nottingham -- Omar Narvaez does have options, by the way), is that there simply hasn't been a true 40-man Brewer roster crunch lately.

Among other position players, I'm a Payton Henry fan, a Cooper Hummel super-fan, and hey, Chad Spanberger should be added simply because he currently sits at the top first base spot in the organizational depth chart (that's quite the commentary on the system).

But, all that being said, Feliciano's the one and only obvious position player choice. Regardless of position player prospects traded away in recent years, that still says plenty about the organization's ability to produce bats in anything approximating bulk volume.

OK, now on to the arms, where it's a brighter picture:

Reliever Luke Barker is finally Rule 5 draft eligible. Someone please explain how this man was not invited to the alternate camp from Day One. Will the Brewers acknowledge his career 0.97 WHIP?

The Brewers saw RHP's Zack Brown, Dylan File, and Alec Bettinger at the Appleton site. RHP's Thomas Jankins and Miguel Sanchez were big league camp invites at the initial spring training this year. LHP Quentin Torres-Costa is healthy after Tommy John surgery and was a 40-man consideration two years ago. RHP Bowden Francis has his fans as well.

But is a single one of these pitchers an automatic? Not especially so, like slam-dunk automatic. Much regarding this decision may have to do with what the Brewers saw out of Brown, File, and Bettinger in Appleton this summer. File wasn't mentioned in any of the reported comments from Farm Director Tom Flanagan, but that doesn't mean he didn't impress.

Bickford is on the 40-man.