One of the many parts of the baseball calendar altered this past year by the COVID-19 pandemic was the international signing period, which typically starts on July 2. MLB and the Players Association agreed to push that start date back this year to January 15, which happens to be the day. Of course, most of these deals with now-16-year-old kids are agreed to years earlier, which is in and of itself a moral failing of the league that is an open secret year after year that has yet to be remedied. We’re focused here mostly on the talent being brought into the organization, mostly through Latin America, but it feels wrong to have that discussion without first at least mentioning the fact that all of this is, in many ways, just gross, for lack of a better word.
Miguel Bleis highlights Red Sox early international free agent class
