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  1. CaliforniaRaisin
    Yes. It came through on the MLB transactions wire, dated 12/12/2025:
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    That tweet was Kotaro Tsunematsu, the Japanese college senior. Looks like Twitter/X has been down a lot today.
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    News of this signing initially came out in the 2025 period but became official today:
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    The Cubs comp pick for Tucker is currently 77th. Could fall to 78th if Zac Gallen signs somewhere besides Arizona for more than $50 million.
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    I edited my response to you to add the penalties. I really think the 2-year one might have led to the spout turning off in the late 2010s.
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    I think this is right. Eloy Jiménez, Gleyber Torres and Jen-Ho Tseng were the 7/2/2013 class. The Cubs were penalized and couldn't sign anyone big in 2014. Then they did the same thing on 7/2/2015, signing guys like Miguel Amaya, Javier Assad, Christopher Morel and Isaac Paredes. This time, they were penalized for both the 2016 and 2017 classes. Starting with 7/2/2017, the caps became hard and no team has gone past it since. No one succeeded in from the 7/2/18 or 7/2/19 classes, as Bertz pointed out. The 7/2/2020 class was moved to 1/15/2021 due to Covid and that's when things started rebounding, as Bertz pointed out (Ballesteros/C. Hernández/Ramírez in 2021, Rojas in 2022, Cepeda in 2023, Cabada in 2025).
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    Minor point of clarification but Brailyn was part of the 7/2/2015 class (with Amaya, Assad, Morel and Paredes). Albertos was another injury-prone prospect from that 2015 class. Wanted to add that if the Cubs IFA process broke somewhere between 2015-2018, it could have been due to having to punt 2 years worth of IFA classes (2016 and 2017) and losing some standing or connections during that time.
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    FYI - they picked 2012 because that was the first year of the capped era. They used to just go over and then take the penalty and punt the next signing year for a couple classes. (Soler did sneak in before 7/2/12 so he was un-capped.)
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    BA has official signings/bonuses for a few kids: SS Yadier Muñoz - $1.2 million SS Jaims Martínez - $900k (Cuba) SS Johan Geraldo - $800k OF Yanfri Serrano - $800k SS Eduardo González - $800k (Venezuela) SS Franyel Almanzar - $600k SS/CF Xavier Cadiz (Venezuela) SS Luis Tomás Dominican unless otherwise listed
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    This is easily the worst one. There’s a (bad) argument to be made for Conrad > Ballesteros if you see Ballesteros topping out as Matt Stairs. II don’t see how you pick Ramírez (or Triantos) over Rojas, who has the positional advantage and better power.
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    BP is easily the worst of the major national prospect publications. Not a fan of their lead guy. Getting by on Goldstein and Parks‘ reputations.
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    Cubs are 8th in bWAR of internationals signed under the bonus pool system.
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    BP’s Cubs list is out: 1. Jaxon Wiggins 2. Ethan Conrad 3. Moisés Ballesteros 4. Kevin Alcántara 5. Josiah Hartshorn 6. Pedro Ramírez 7. Jonathan Long 8. James Triantos 9. Jefferson Rojas 10. Kaleb Wing Kane Kepley was 12.
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    Juan Cabada and Juan Tómas have made it to Arizona:
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    Bryan Smith is now a correspondent at BA: He wrote about Kaleb Wing this month.
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    The rankings are from BA. BA ranks based on bonus amounts. The bonus amounts are actually from Francys Romero because BA doesn't list bonus amounts anymore (when they stopped listing bonuses a few years ago, they said it was for security reasons for Venezuelan prospects).
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    Yes
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    BA updated their top 50 to a top 100 that includes González. 58. Yanfri Serrano, SS, DR - $800k 62. Eduardo González, SS, Venezuela - $800k 81. Johan Geraldo, SS, DR - $400k 85. Franyel Almanzar, SS. DR - $500k This is on top of Yadier Muñoz who is 35th.
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    The Cubs will sign switch hitting Venezuelan CF Eduardo González next week for a $1 million bonus.
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    BA released 11-30 today: 11. James Triantos 12. Josiah Hartshorn 13. Dominick Reid 14. Brandon Birdsell 15. Jostin Florentino 16. Cristian Hernández 17, Kaleb Wing 18. Owen Ayers 19. Juan Cabada 20. Ángel Cepeda 21. Riley Martin 22. Ty Southisene 23. Will Sanders 24. Juan Tómas 25. Erian Rodríguez 26. Pierce Coppola 27. Tyler Schlaffer 28, Brody McCullough 29, Ariel Armas 30. Nick Dean Wilfi de la Cruz was 18 for Baltimore. Ryan Gallagher 22 for Minnesota. Ronny Cruz 21 and Christian Franklin 22 for Washington.
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    Owen Caissie, Christian Hernández and Edgardo de León is not too shabby. The deadline asking price was Caissie and Wiggins.
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