Nobody in particular, really. The Cubs miscalculated the value of those bonus slots basically (that, or PTR really was as PTR as we joked). It amounted to some savings off the penalty and nothing more. Think that was the same year they traded Torreyes for bonus money. My thought was that they were hedging their bets for if they didn't get Jimenez, it would help prevent them from going too far over, maybe even prevent getting penalized the next year. Basically, getting Jimenez was going to blow their pool away totally no matter what, with no way to get enough slot money to cover. But if they didn't get him, they may have been able to get enough slot money to prevent some of the penalties. They got Jimenez, so it didn't matter in the end.