This coming Saturday, Major League Baseball’s international free agency (IFA) period will open as a new group of prospects will become eligible to sign their first professional contracts. The Yankees are expected to make a big splash, using most of their bonus pool to sign Dominican shortstop Roderick Arias.
Arias is rated as the top available prospect in this signing period by MLB.com and while he has not garnered the same hype as Jasson Dominguez did leading into signing day in 2019, Arias will still likely be installed as one of the Yankees’ top-15, if not top-10 prospects the moment he officially joins the team.