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With John's recent post about the top signing bonuses up to 2009, it reminded me of something I had accumulated through the past year. I set out to find as many international free agent singings with a reported bonus in the past two years.
I came up with a pretty thorough list, and arranged them in my favorite data delivery method - a Google Doc spreadsheet. Instead of bogging down the bandwidth with 30 different tables, just give the link a click and it will pull up all 30 teams, split up by league in a new window.
As an example, here are the international signings I came up with for the Atlanta Braves and Boston Red Sox.
Atlanta Braves | ||||
Pos | Name | Country | Bonus | Year Signed |
LHP | Luis Barrios | Colombia | $600,000 | 2013 |
SS | Ozhaino Albies | Curacao | $350,000 | 2013 |
SS | Kevin Josephina | Curacao | $300,000 | 2013 |
RHP | Luis Perez"]" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">Luis Perez | DR | $275,000 | 2013 |
SS | Alejandro Salazar | Venezuela | $100,000 | 2013 |
OF | Jose Pina | Venezuela | $50,000 | 2013 |
Total - | $1,675,000 | |||
RHP | Yeralf Torres | Venezuela | $550,000 | 2012 |
OF | Kelvin Estevez | DR | $300,000 | 2012 |
RHP | Gabriel Henry | Panama | $255,000 | 2012 |
OF | Juan Reyes | DR | $150,000 | 2012 |
LHP | Felix Falcon | DR | $135,000 | 2012 |
LHP | Jhon Marinez | Venezuela | $110,000 | 2012 |
OF | Ledernin Tejada | DR | $100,000 | 2012 |
OF | Alejandro Piloto | Cuba | $125,000 | 2012 |
LHP | Adrian Rivero | Cuba | $100,000 | 2012 |
Total - | $1,825,000 |
Boston Red Sox | ||||
Pos | Name | Country | Bonus | Year Signed |
3B | Rafael Devers | DR | $1,500,000 | 2013 |
LHP | Emmanuel DeJesus | Venezuela | $787,000 | 2013 |
LHP | Jhonthan Diaz | Venezuela | $600,000 | 2013 |
OF | Yoan Aybar | DR | $450,000 | 2013 |
RHP | Gerson Bautista | DR | $250,000 | 2013 |
RHP | Dalier Hinojosa"]" style="padding: 2px 3px 2px 3px; vertical-align: bottom; border-right: 1px solid #000000; border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;">Dalier Hinojosa | Cuba | $4,000,000 | 2013 |
C | Samuel Miranda | Venezuela | $7,500 | 2013 |
Total - | $7,594,500 | |||
SS | Tzu-Wei Lin | Taiwan | $2,050,000 | 2012 |
RHP | Simon Mercedes | DR | $800,000 | 2012 |
RHP | Jose Almonte | DR | $610,000 | 2012 |
SS | Wendell Rijo | DR | $575,000 | 2012 |
CF | Luis Alexander Basabe | Venezuela | $450,000 | 2012 |
2B | Luis Alejandro Basabe | Venezuela | $450,000 | 2012 |
LHP | Daniel McGrath | Australia | $400,000 | 2012 |
RHP | Heri Quevedo | DR | $150,000 | 2012 |
SS | Javier Guerra | Panama | $250,000 | 2012 |
LHP | Dedgar Jimenez | Venezuela | $175,000 | 2012 |
SS | Victor Acosta | Venezuela | $50,000 | 2012 |
Total - | $5,960,000 |