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Baseball Primer Newsblog — The Best News Links from the Baseball Newsstand Tuesday, February 12, 2013Baseball America: International Reviews: Tampa Bay Rays
This is interesting, I had no idea the Rays had been blowing past the international spending cap like this. I believe a primate recently asked why a team wouldn’t spend excessively one year on international free agents to load up on top-end talent and then accept that the next year they would be very limited in what they could do. The Rays haven’t gone massively over budget but it appears they are making use of that suggested strategy.
Jim Wisinski
Posted: February 12, 2013 at 12:30 AM | 2 comment(s)
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1. John Northey Posted: February 12, 2013 at 10:40 AM (#4367733)I did, for one.
For what it's worth, Tampa hasn't gone _that_ nuts with spending. If we accept BA's pre-signing period rankings as gospel, they landed the #3, #6, and #14 guys (of the top 20). That's impressive, but they haven't exactly tried to buy up the market (which would be expensive from both a supply v. demand aspect, as well as the tax). Their share of top players will be less than what we've recently seen with Toronto, Texas, and Seattle (to name three) in the pre-pool era. Also, the timing is notable - this year, all teams had the same pool, that's changing to one that varies by success (which would hurt Tampa with the top dudes). Even with the penalty, they'd still be able to sign all the other guys they've tabbed since July (bonus < 250K), so it's not going to cripple their Caribbean operations or anything.
I think this is a better strategy with the int'l market than with the domestic draft - where I think I'd try to stick within the league's parameters (after you account for the buffer).
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