A blog post on Blleeding Yankee Blue about the Red Sox’ acquisition of Yoan Moncada made me think. The Sox signed the kid to a contract with a signing bonus of $31.5 million. Add another $31.5 million tax, imposed by MLB, so that makes a total of $63 million spent on a player who has…
Yoan Moncada has signed a deal with the Red Sox. The Sox are paying him a record signing bonus of $31.5 million dollars. I have mixed feelings about this deal. At one hand I wish that the Yankees had signed him but at the other hand, paying $31.5 million for a player that has not…
Over the past weeks the media are full of stories about Yoan Moncada, one of the Cuban defectors that is after an MLB contract. He has worked out in front of several MLB scouts, sometimes even in private sessions for one club only. In the meantime the Yankees have seen him three times, the last…
Yoan Moncada, the Cuban five tool player remains available after the Diamondbacks signed his namesake Lopez. The weird thing is that the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control has not cleared him yet. The reason for that is unclear and there is no time table set. Moncada reportedly is on the radar of the…
