Got to love AA
Selig puts in a cap for international free agents with penalties for going over.
Anthopoulos tells Selig to shove his cap and signs
Richard Urena SS - Ranked 13th on Baseball America's list
Luis Castro LHP - Ranked 9th on BA's List
Franklin Barretto SS - Ranked #1 on BA's List
All for over the cap. Apparently AA is not finished there and will go well over the maximum overage 15% over 2.9 mil (those 3 signed for 3.6 mil)
The only thing it will cost is a bit higher of a tax, and that next year they won't be able to sign guys over 250K.
So AA will likely alternate approaches between signing a bunch of good guys one year, then sign a bunch of filler the next, then sign a bunch of good ones after repeating the process.
Basically it'll net us more good players than signing one guy per year.
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