Major League Baseball has declared Venezuelan lefthander Gabriel Noguera ineligible to sign for one year for misrepresenting his age.
MLB Catches Venezuelan Player With False Age
July 2 Notebook: Pitchers Draw Scouts To Colombia
Rangers Sign Dominican Lefty Francis Cespedes For $750,000
Eloy Jimenez Stands Out Among International Prospects
July 2 Notebook: International Outfielder Bonanza
Major League Baseball has penalized a Venezuelan pitcher who had been falsely presenting himself as a 16-year-old prospect eligible to sign on July 2. Gabriel Noguera, a lefthander who had [...]
Dominican righthander Marcos Diplan appears to be in line for the biggest bonus among 16-year-old Latin American pitchers for July 2, but Colombia has three pitchers who are expected to [...]
The Rangers agreed to terms with one more high-priced pitcher before the end of the 2012-13 international signing period, signing Dominican lefthander Francis Cespedes for $750,000. The 2012-13 signing period [...]
Teams were divided over who they felt was the best prospect on the international market two years ago. Some scouts thought the top player was Ronald Guzman, a 6-foot-5 Dominican [...]
The Red Sox have one of the biggest international bonus pools this year and are known to have strong interest in Dominican third baseman Rafael Devers. They have also been [...]
As with any rule in baseball, when the the new bonus spending limits for international signings became public in November 2011, people immediately started looking for ways to work around [...]
It’s not hard for scouts to find players in the Dominican Republic who yank balls over the fence in batting practice. When it comes to players who showcase promising tools [...]
Once a Caribbean Series powerhouse, Cuba is set to return to the tournament for the time since 1960. The winner of Cuba’s Serie Nacional, between Villa Clara and Matanzas, will [...]
The international bonus pools have affected the Latin American market, mostly by clamping down on aggregate spending and killing the $3 million-plus signings. In South Korea and Taiwan, the bonus [...]
With the amateur draft in the rearview mirror, teams are three weeks away from being able to add top international talent to their organizations. Here are six more names generating [...]
The Rangers have made one of the biggest international signings of the year, finalizing an $825,000 deal with Dominican righthander Omarlin Lopez. Lopez, 19, agreed to terms with the Rangers [...]
The Indians have signed shortstop Yu-Cheng Chang, one of the top Asian amateur players on the market, for $500,000 out of Taiwan. Chang, an 18-year-old out of Taichung Agricultural High, [...]
There will be no international draft in 2014, according to an announcement today from Major League Baseball. The commissioner’s office and the MLB Players Association had been in discussions to [...]
As teams await word of whether there will be an international draft next year, the trainers in Latin America are on edge about what it means for their future in [...]
An effort to get baseball back into the Olympics took a small step forward today when the International Olympic Committee announced that the combined package of baseball and softball will [...]
If Major League Baseball is planning an international draft, it’s going to need the approval of the Players’ Association to do so. According to a petition collected by four prominent [...]
While players, agents and trainers are on edge over how a potential international draft could affect them, several area scouts in foreign countries are worried about their own futures as [...]
Nothing spreads panic across the baseball community in Latin America quite like talk of an international draft. Major League Baseball officials won’t address the subject in any detail, knowing how [...]
The penalties for exceeding the international bonus pools are harsh, but for certain teams this might be the year to ignore them. The Rays did just that last year when [...]
The Mariners have signed Daniel Missaki, a 17-year-old Brazilian righthander who pitched for Brazil’s 2013 World Baseball Classic team in March. Missaki, who is 6 feet, 170 pounds, was the [...]
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