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Arangure Jr. On International Prospects

By Eddie Schmid [June 30, 2009 at 9:01pm CST]

ESPN's Jorge Arangure Jr. has been all over the market for potential signings from Latin America ahead of July 2nd, the first day teams are officially eligible to sign international free agents. Let's check out his latest action on the beat:

The Braves and Reds supposedly watched the workouts for shortstop prospect Humberto Valor. One scout called him "the best position player in Venezuela," and he's expected to get a bonus in the range of $1.5MM-$2.2MM.
The Red Sox are apparently set to sign Dominican right-hander Raul Alcantara for $500k. Here's a scouting report, and one scout said he's "better than [Michael] Ynoa."
The Brewers and Yankees are said to be "all over" SS prospect Damian Arredondo, touted for his "raw speed."

Ben had a round-up of more international signing tidbits yesterday. Keep an eye out for a flurry of news as the deadline approaches.

Comments

The Braves scouting the second or third best SS prospect raises some questions. I'm not saying it means Yunel will be gone in a week ,but it makes it appear that possibly he isn't in their long term plans.

Posted by: bravoboy10 | June 30, 2009 at 10:25 PM

"The Mets wouldn't be interested because he doesn't want a bunch of money,they only flush the money on old players,AARP players,by the way there losing again(the Mets),the Nationals are gaining on them,138 million dollar payroll,bunch of ignorant fools,I am glad I dont live in New York

Posted by: metkiller1304 | June 30, 2009 at 09:06 PM"

Shut up. No one said anything about the Mets.

Posted by: braddd | June 30, 2009 at 10:33 PM

Not really...the Braves don't appear to have any legitimate prospects at the position in the minors and even if they do sign Valor its extremely unlikely he'd even be ready to make his debut before Escobar hits free agency anyway. Its more about addressing an organizational weakness than it is about finding someone to replace Yunel.

Posted by: nixa37 | June 30, 2009 at 10:39 PM

Don't feed the troll guys. He'll be banned soon enough.

Posted by: nixa37 | June 30, 2009 at 10:41 PM

Amazing how teams can throw all this money at players who aren't likely to make any sort of impact in professional baseball.

Posted by: kgbaseball | July 01, 2009 at 12:25 AM

not to worry bravoboy.....these are 16 year old prospects. They are 6-10 years away from having a chance at making a dent in the big leagues. Yunel's career should be entering the twilight years by the time these guys would be ready for the bigs.

Posted by: yanks09 | July 01, 2009 at 12:38 AM

Its not amazing at all when you consider that if a team hits on a prospect they get him for ~500k a season for his first 3 seasons. Considering that a win is worth between 4 and 5 million dollars, a team doesn't even have to that great of a success rate to get their money's worth. Seriously, one league average player is worth over 25 million over 3 seasons and you would only have to pay him 1.5 million if its his first 3 seasons. How do people still not get simple things like this?

Posted by: nixa37 | July 01, 2009 at 12:45 AM

Is it just me, or does there seem to be far more 500K+ bonuses this year early being announced this year going to latin America? Could it have something to do with Selig trying to cut the bonus amounts to regular draftees and teams giving it to international draftees instead?

I got to get in the 21st century.. Lack of twitter is killing me.LOL

Posted by: johns | July 01, 2009 at 11:40 AM

Tweet =/= Scouting Report

Posted by: Little Bear | July 01, 2009 at 12:59 PM

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