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Baseball America 2021-2022 International bonus board is out; Mariners favored to sign two, including no. 5 overall
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On Tuesday, Baseball America released their annual international signing bonus big board, this edition for the 2021-2022 signing class. The Mariners are listed as the favorites to sign two of the top 30 prospects on the board. While we were aware of Dominican shortstop
Martin Gonzales, ranked no. 18 overall on the board, the big surprise came with Seattle listed as the favorite to sign no. 5 overall prospect
Lazaro Montes, a 1B/OF out of Cuba.
Seattle spending big money on a single international free agent is a bit of a departure from what the organization has done in the past couple years. The most the team has ever spent on one single free agent is $2 million. That was
Fidel Montero, Yankees’ new hotshot outfielder prospect, ‘can do everything
Updated Feb 13, 2021;
Here’s the scoop on a 17-year-old Yankees center fielder prospect from the Dominican Republic that most every team wanted. No, not Jasson Dominguez, the five-tool, switch-hitter who signed for $5.1 million in July 2019.
While Dominguez is widely considered the Yankees’ No. 1 prospect and is being compared to Mike Trout, their newest hotshot farmhand is a countryman who is the same age and plays the same position, Fidel Montero.
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Last year’s international signing period was pushed back from a July 2 start to Jan. 15 due to the pandemic, and the Yankees might have snatched the biggest steal signing Montero for about $500,000 on Feb. 6.
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Over the coming weeks and months, we will break down the Yankees’ farm system leading into the minor league season, position-by-position. The first group up is the shortstops. The Yankees have used high draft picks and big international signing bonuses over the last few years to add talent at the position, so the result is a deep but not MLB-ready group of prospects.
Signed out of Venezuela in 2016, Oswald Peraza was not considered an elite prospect through his first few seasons in the Yankees’ organization. That changed in 2019, as improved tools caught the eyes of scouts around baseball.
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New York Daily News | Bill Madden: While the plan for now seems to be a standard 162-game 2021 season, deep rifts between MLB’s owners and players have only festered throughout the winter. The most recent development has been a lack of concern, in the players’ eyes, for health and safety protocols as the league prepares for a second year of baseball in a pandemic. As the U.S. grieves another 3,500 deaths from COVID-19 on Saturday, the Players Association is bringing forth criticism of any plan of action for keeping on-field talent safe and healthy. This is but one more grievance between the two sides ahead of the CBA expiration in December that could put 2022 in jeopardy.