December 7, 20169 yr Here's the Baseball America (paywall) explanation from Ben Badler: http://www.baseballamerica.com/internation...hyAyO7IBYWtT.97 Clubs either get $5.75, $5.25, or $4.75 million to spend on international prospects under 25 per year. Teams can trade all of their bonus amounts but can only acquire 75% of their bonus pool in trade. Here are the amounts. $5.75 million Arizona Baltimore Cleveland Colorado Kansas City Pittsburgh St. Louis San Diego $5.25 million Cincinnati Miami Milwaukee Minnesota Oakland Tampa Bay $4.75 million Atlanta Boston Chicago Cubs Chicago White Sox Detroit Houston LA Angels LA Dodgers NYM NYY Philly San Francisco Seattle Texas Toronto Washington Players that cost $10,000 or less don't count against the pool. The following teams can't spend over $300,000 on a player because they are in the penalty from previous years: Cubs, Dodgers, Giants, Royals, Athletics, Astros, Braves, Cardinals, Nationals, Padres, and Reds. All of those teams can trade their full amounts however. The White Sox can trade for up to $3.5 million more in international money. This is absolutely something that they should be doing. White Sox can spend $8.3 million internationally if they trade for the maximum that they can. I'll be very curious to see if they do this.
December 11, 20169 yr QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 04:21 PM) What ever it takes to sign Shoei Otani, they should do. Really good chance he isn't coming over next year as he would be restricted. Edited December 11, 20169 yr by soxfan2014
December 11, 20169 yr QUOTE (soxfan2014 @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 07:34 PM) Really good chance he isn't coming over next year as he would be restricted. Ken Rosenthal reported that he's coming over and he reported that after the new CBA was done. But these new rules do not work out in his favor, if he wants more money he should stay but he'd be taking a huge risk
December 11, 20169 yr QUOTE (Joshua Strong @ Dec 10, 2016 -> 09:05 PM) Ken Rosenthal reported that he's coming over and he reported that after the new CBA was done. But these new rules do not work out in his favor, if he wants more money he should stay but he'd be taking a huge risk There was another report (forgot from who) after that report saying it was unlikey now.
March 2, 20179 yr Author Here's a refresher on the new International Bonus Rules if anyone needs them
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