All 30 Major League teams have received notification of
their spending pools for the 2018-2019 international free agent signing period
according to Baseball America’s Ben Badler, and the New York Yankees have $4,983,500
to spend beginning on July 2, 2018. Teams are allotted into their respective
pools based on revenues and market size and their allotment is considered to be
a hard cap on how much teams can spend on international prospects who are under
the age of 25 and have played six seasons or less in an international
professional league.
$6,025,400 bonus pool: Athletics, Brewers, Marlins, Rays,
Reds, Twins
$5,504,500 bonus pool: Diamondbacks, Indians, Orioles,
Padres, Pirates, Rockies, Royals
$5,004,500 bonus pool: Cardinals
$4,983,500 bonus pool: Angels, Astros, Blue Jays,
Braves, Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, Mariners, Mets, Nationals, Rangers, Red Sox,
Tigers, White Sox, Yankees
$3,949,000 bonus pool: Phillies
The Philadelphia Phillies lost money from their draft pool
after signing both Carlos Santana and Jake Arrieta while the St. Louis
Cardinals also lost money after their signing of closer Greg Holland, all three
of which rejected qualifying offers from their former teams. Also, just as a
reminder, the Houston Astros, Oakland Athletics, Atlanta Braves, St. Louis
Cardinals, Washington Nationals, San Diego Padres, Cincinnati Reds and Chicago
White Sox are still limited to signing players for no more than $300K each
under the old international rules that penalized teams for going over their
spending pool limits.
With the penalties on these eight teams mixed in with the
fact that any team can acquire up to 75% of their international pool limit in
trades we could see a lot of teams trading away international money this summer.
Bonus pool money can be traded away in $250K increments.
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Sorry for the Capatcha... Blame the Russians :)