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  1. CaliforniaRaisin
    BA updated their top 30s to include IFAs. This was also their first update after Caissie and Cristian Hernández were traded. The new additions are Johan Geraldo at 15th and Jaims Martínez 24th.
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    Kiley has Jefferson Rojas 107th and Pedro Ramírez 198th. No Alcántara, Conrad or Kepley in his top 200. https://www.espn.com/mlb/story/_/id/47684202/top-100-mlb-prospects-2026-kiley-mcdaniel-konnor-griffin-kevin-mcgonigle-jesus-made
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    Pipeline lower on Ballesteros and higher on Wiggins than BA:
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    Wonder what a new CBA would do next year's signing class.
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    (Sounds like the owners want to get rid of A-ball and only have A+, AA and AAA.)
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    That's fine. Let the Cubs get overhyped guys like the Dodgers, Padres and Yankees always do.
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    lol, that’s exactly my thought process. Down to not wanting to lose Simone Biles.
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    In a promising sign, Ethan Conrad, Kane Kepley and Jefferson Rojas were amongst BA’s 20 that just missed the top 100 (the next 20 are listed in alphabetical order): https://www.baseballamerica.com/stories/20-mlb-prospects-who-just-missed-the-2026-top-100/
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    36. Moisés Ballesteros 78. Jaxon Wiggins (Owen Caissie was 43)
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    Ahmad Moten looked great last night too (and I agree with the sentiment DT is a bigger need).
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    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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