The talent in the International market, especially the Dominican Republic, can no longer be dismissed. You simply can not build a winning team without young, talented Latin baseball players.
We've increased our commitment here over the past few years, resulting in top prospects like Ronny Mauricio, Freddy Valdez, and Francisco Alverez.
The league limits a team from offering non-luxury tax bonus signing money but that doesn't mean can't trade pipeline players for additional monies to spend in this area.
We also, as an organization, are hiring additional members into our Latin scouting department.
My question is this...
Are you happy with the amount of bonus money spent here or should we attempt to secure more by trading real life players for non-life moolah?
6 comments:
I will start.
I am NOT happy with our commitment here.
Yes there is league restrictions here but I would never do another trade unless international money was also secured.
The smart teams gather up international $$ - and it often pays off huge
Mack, great question. Is it actually true that spending more gets the 'best' players? I haven't seen any analysis on the correlation between the size of bonus and MLB performance. Has anyone? Some questions that come to mind are - how many of the players getting top end bonus money 'make it'? How does the Mets spending and results compare with the rest of the league?
Coney
I haven't seen any analysis like this either.
I wish we would use our model that we did in the regular draft this year. By spending big on 1 or 2 players. I want them to get the best prospect for once coming out of the international market. Not a 20th ranked player.
The Yankees, Cubs, Red Sox seem to do it every year.
Every things mlb team should do is acquire assets
Period
International money, the now traceable draft picks small markets have, prospects
Free agents... all the good teams does it all...
international markets are free areas to roam and acquire players and we should target the top players... they are usually the most expensive... so yes spend on the best.... like every part of the players system
The top draft picks sometime fail, the top free agents fail, but usually the consensus top choices usually pan out and they cost money
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