Hot Stove - 11-22-17

Former Mets catcher, Juan Centeno, was placed on waivers by Houston.


Due to the International shenanigans by the Atlanta Braves, they have lost the rights to12 international prospects, including IF Kevin Maitan, C Abraham Guiterrez, SS Yunior Severino, RHP Juan Contreras, SS Livan Soto, RHP Yefri del Rosario and the work they have done to secure 14-year old SS Robert Puason.  

They also lost their 3rd round pick next draft and there has been severe limitations on the 2019-2020, and 2020-2021 international signing period. 

This is a big deal and now you know why Director Of Baseball Operations, John Hart, got out of town before baseball lowered the boom.

John Sickles has Maitan as the #13 prospect in the Braves pipeline (B/B-). 

Guiterrez and Severino received a C+ rating from Sickles. Del Rosario is rated C.


The MLB have authorized an agreement for the 'Japanese Babe Ruth', two-way star Shohei Ohtani, to play stateside: - 

When Ohtani chooses a team, it will pay a $20 million posting fee to Ohtani’s NPB team, the Hokkaido Nippon-Ham Fighters. That figure was grandfathered from the previous posting agreement; in the future, Japanese teams will receive posting fees on a sliding scale, with 20 percent for contracts under $25 million, 17.5 percent on deals from $25 million to $50 million and 15 percent for bonuses above $50 million. Other issues expected to potentially affect future agreements bothered the union enough that it raised objections before ratifying the proposal.

     stop drooling Mets fans. Ain't gonna happen.

Jonathan Mayo outlined the who, what, and where the process would be to sign any of these players...

• The players — who get to keep their original bonuses but cannot be represented by the agents that negotiated their original contracts — will be subject to international signing pool restrictions but are otherwise free to sign with any organization.
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• MLB teams will be allowed a fresh $200K of bonus pool space to work with to sign any of these prospects. They may elect to draw from either their current signing period pool allocation or that of the 2018-19 period (but not both).
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• All MLB teams but the Braves can sign the prospects between December 5th of this year and January 15th of the next. Any players that do not sign within that period will no longer be eligible to receive a signing bonus. The Braves are eligible to pursue any still-unsigned prospects (without a bonus offer) beginning on May 1, 2018.