Indians' international haul

 OK, we are into the interntional signing period and all evidence says that the Indians stuck to their guns and signed the players they were going to sign and kept their bonuses within scope based on where those players were ranked by different sources.

Now, of course, whether these guys become major leaguers down the road will be dependent on their hard work and ability to grow their games, our player development system and, in some cases, luck to stay away from injuries.

But, on the surface, at least, the Indians did not appear to go cheap by backing away from players who they were linked to just because those players required million dollar or large hundreds of thousands of dollars in bonuses.  Certainly, they shied away from playing the big boys as they didn't sign any of the top international amateur free agents, that is, the guys who were requiring multimillion dollar bonuses.   But that is not unusual, in the least, for the Indians.

Now, below the surface, we will likely never know whether 2020 had any impact on which guys they signed this month but, from history of previous years and all I read this year, I think they stayed the course, probably the first sign since the pandemic of them still throwing money into the player development system.