In light of the Yadier Alvarez news, both last week and now on Saturday, I’d started to look back to the run of international signings spanning late 2013 into early 2016.
While that technically includes Kenta Maeda and his rather team friendly contract signed in January 2016, the run of signings from Latin America resulted in quite a bit of wasted money. Having looked pretty closely (and checked with Dustin to make sure I wasn’t missing anyone obvious), it looks like the largest eight international contracts besides Maeda combined for $191 million.