In 2015, the Giants signed Lucius Fox, and it was a bit of a steal. The Dodgers were expected to sign Fox, but the Giants swooped in and swept him away. They paid big bucks for him as well, and he was potentially the biggest international free agent signing the Giants had ever made.
(And then the Giants traded Fox away as part…PART!…of the deal for Matt Moore. A trade that Bobby Evans will never stop hearing about as long as he is a general manager anywhere.)
All that aside, by blowing out their bonus pool that year, the Giants endured two years of having their bonuses limited.