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7 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

None of the Cubs signings are official. 

I wonder if a pool space trade is in the works. Obviously they're currently over their pool space so something needs to give. I wonder if they'd let one of their top IFAs go and trade pool space to the Sasaki winner for a good prospect.

 

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On 1/15/2025 at 10:29 AM, CaliforniaRaisin said:

Cubs signings per Francys Romero and Baseball America:

SS Wilfri de la Cruz, Dominican Republic - $2.3 million
SS Juan Cabada, Dominican Republic - $1.5 million
IF Juan Thomas, Dominican Republic- $1.1 million
SS Jaims Martínez, Cuba - $900,000
SS Luis Santos, Dominican Republic - $135,000
OF Julio Acosta, Dominican Republic - $124,000
RHP Erick Hernández, Venezuela - $75,000
IF Luis Abreu, Dominican Republic - $60,000
SS Elerick Gómez, Venezuela - $60,000
IF Alexander Herrera, Venezuela - $30,000
OF Freiker Betancourt, Venezuela - $25,000
OF Luis Sánchez, Venezuela - $20,000
RHP Tadeo Gámez, Mexico

Current pool is $6,261,600 so either some of these signings aren't official or the Cubs are going to need to trade for pool space.

How big does a signing need to be to count against the pool?  Doesn't that only apply to signing above some threshold?  For example, if I subtract those under $50K, the >$50K listing above sum to 6.254, which would fit.  

Or is $20K at/above the threshold already?  

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38 minutes ago, craig said:

How big does a signing need to be to count against the pool?  Doesn't that only apply to signing above some threshold?  For example, if I subtract those under $50K, the >$50K listing above sum to 6.254, which would fit.  

Or is $20K at/above the threshold already?  

I saw someone the other day say $100K, but I thought I remembered it being wayyyy lower, like $10k or $20k.  I'm not sure if that's something that changed last CBA?

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1 hour ago, craig said:

How big does a signing need to be to count against the pool?  Doesn't that only apply to signing above some threshold?  For example, if I subtract those under $50K, the >$50K listing above sum to 6.254, which would fit.  

Or is $20K at/above the threshold already?  

Anything $10k or less doesn't count to your pool.

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20 minutes ago, Bertz said:

I saw someone the other day say $100K, but I thought I remembered it being wayyyy lower, like $10k or $20k.  I'm not sure if that's something that changed last CBA?

It's still $10k.

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1 hour ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

 

The guy on the far left looks like he's going to reengage an argument about traffic laws he and the photographer had weeks ago as soon as the picture is taken. 

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Jaims Martinez still not announced, correct?  

How much was his deal reported to be, $$-wise, and how much space do we think we actually have?  Like, how much pool money would they need to add, to reach the original reported deal estimate?  Like, pick up $50K in pool money in some end-of-camp trade, or something?  

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On 2/1/2025 at 7:10 AM, craig said:

Jaims Martinez still not announced, correct?  

How much was his deal reported to be, $$-wise, and how much space do we think we actually have?  Like, how much pool money would they need to add, to reach the original reported deal estimate?  Like, pick up $50K in pool money in some end-of-camp trade, or something?  

He hasn't signed. His reported deal was $900k and with it, the Cubs would likely have gone over their pool based on other estimates, so this is probably the hang up on signing him.

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7 hours ago, CaliforniaRaisin said:

He hasn't signed. His reported deal was $900k and with it, the Cubs would likely have gone over their pool based on other estimates, so this is probably the hang up on signing him.

By your numbers, how much over?  Like, how much might the cubs need to pick up to make the reported deal?  $200K?  $75K?  

I'm wondering whether their close enough that it won't take a big deal to swing it, and that perhaps a few teams have slivers of sufficient amount still left.  

Like, maybe Canario has a mashing camp, but still just doesn't make the team.  But some team with a sliver of international cash deals it for him?  Or like Keegan has a good camp, and his velocity is up 1-2 mph as well.  But he still just gets numbered out, so some team with even a sliver of international cash deals it for Keegan?  Or something like that?  

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On 2/3/2025 at 8:15 PM, craig said:

By your numbers, how much over?  Like, how much might the cubs need to pick up to make the reported deal?  $200K?  $75K?  

I'm wondering whether their close enough that it won't take a big deal to swing it, and that perhaps a few teams have slivers of sufficient amount still left.  

Like, maybe Canario has a mashing camp, but still just doesn't make the team.  But some team with a sliver of international cash deals it for him?  Or like Keegan has a good camp, and his velocity is up 1-2 mph as well.  But he still just gets numbered out, so some team with even a sliver of international cash deals it for Keegan?  Or something like that?  

Before 1/15/25, this is what I had heard:

SS Wilfri de la Cruz, Dominican Republic - $2.3 million
SS Juan Cabada, Dominican Republic - $1.5 million
IF Juan Tomás, Dominican Republic- $1.1 million
SS Luis Santos, Dominican Republic - $135,000
OF Julio Acosta, Dominican Republic - $124,000
RHP Erick Hernández, Venezuela - $75,000
IF Luis Abreu, Dominican Republic - $60,000
SS Elerick Gómez, Venezuela - $60,000
IF Alexander Herrera, Venezuela - $30,000
OF Freiker Betancourt, Venezuela - $25,000
OF Luis Sánchez, Venezuela - $20,000

That's $5.429,000. Current pool is $6,261,600 so there's a balance of $832,600 but that's without knowing what Tadeo Gámez signed for. Jaims Martínez was supposed to sign for $900k so on his own, he would have put them over their allotted pool space.

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