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[IslandBrave]

Braves Farm Updates Retweeted

Antonio Puesán

Antonio Puesán‏ @antoniopuesan

#July2Update Venezuelan top prospect SS Kevin Maitán sign with @Braves for a 4.1 millions bonus

 

[The Tariff King]

#July2Update SS prospect Yunior Severino sign with @Braves between $1.5/1.8 MM great power from both sides of the plate.
Jul 2, 2016, 8:15 AM

 

[IslandBrave]

#July2Update RHP Yefri Del Rosario sign with @Braves between $800/1M showed decent command and a fastball in the 90-93 mph range

 

[zbhargrove]

Did we know about Del Rosario? Don't remember him...

 

[The Tariff King]

So where is Maitan projected to play?

 

[SJ24]

#July2Update RHP Yefri Del Rosario sign with @Braves between $800/1M showed decent command and a fastball in the 90-93 mph range

Yes!!

 

[SJ24]

Did we know about Del Rosario? Don't remember him...

We were battling Cleveland for him.

 

[depley]

#July2Update SS prospect Yunior Severino sign with @Braves between $1.5/1.8 MM great power from both sides of the plate.

 

[zbhargrove]

Badler just said that the signing period doesn't officially open until 9am ET

 

[IslandBrave]

#July2Update RHP Juan Contreras sign with @Braves for a $1,000,000

 

[dak]

Most interesting part of the day will be whether we trade our bonus slots. Last year we made 3 trades to acquire bonus slots on 7/2: Cody Martin to A's, Garret Fulenchek to Rays, Caleb Dirks and Jordan Paroubeck to Dodgers. So any trade we make today is going to have a very negligible return, but still . . . trades are fun.

 

[SJ24]

Most interesting part of the day will be whether we trade our bonus slots. Last year we made 3 trades to acquire bonus slots on 7/2: Cody Martin to A's, Garret Fulenchek to Rays, Caleb Dirks and Jordan Paroubeck to Dodgers. So any trade we make today is going to have a very negligible return, but still . . . trades are fun.

Could you explain what this means? Thanks.

 

[IslandBrave]

Could you explain what this means? Thanks.

Our slots are useless to us bc we are going over the limit. They have value to other teams. We can hope to acquire mid level prospects for a couple of our slots.

 

[dak]

Could you explain what this means? Thanks.

International bonus slots are tradable. Teams can acquire slots up to 50% of their pool. So, the Braves first slot is untradable (value too high to be acquired), but the other 3 can be traded. The logic is that the Braves will blow past their pool, so these slots are more valuable to other teams trying to stay within their pool than to the Braves. The only benefit of these slots to the Braves is that they would slightly reduce the overage penalty / tax they'll pay for blowing past their pool limit.

 

[Heyward]

Thank god we signed Maitan, anything else is a bonus to me.

 

[NYCBrave]

This link on BaseballAmerica shows the current tracker. So far for Braves:

Kevin Maitan, ss, Venezuela (No. 1 prospect)
Yunior Severino, ss, Dominican Republic (No. 8 prospect)
Abrahan Gutierrez, c, Venezuela (No. 15 prospect)
Livan Soto, ss, Venezuela (No. 16 prospect)
Juan Contreras, rhp, Dominican Republic (No. 41 prospect)

Read more at http://www.baseballamerica.com/inte...national-signing-tracker/#6dKjXddMps8GwCQz.99

http://www.baseballamerica.com/inte...national-signing-tracker/#EW07qpuH0EGSsWwm.97

 

[zbhargrove]

We have a results thread now... can we just keep it all there?

 

[Heyward]

Pretty nice haul with Maitan taking up a chunk of the international money

 

[Julio3000]

#July2Update SS prospect Yunior Severino sign with @Braves between $1.5/1.8 MM great power from both sides of the plate.

Jul 2, 2016, 8:15 AM

Glad that Yunior will be yoining us. I was a big fan of his dad, Senor Yunior, Senior.

 

[The Tariff King]

Glad that Yunior will be yoining us. I was a big fan of his dad, Senor Yunior, Senior.

And his cousin Yunel.