I read that one of the reasons for Cleveland's draft strategies was that they were using their international signings to get hitters while using the first year player draft to get pitchers. I don't believe anything is ever that simple but it did make me think so I looked back at international signings. Those players are listed below.
Looking at that list, if you exclude the unbelievable (and likely aberrational) class of 2017/8, international signings don't seem to be a significant path to major league players or even top level prospects. Yes, we gave away Yandy Dias and Willi Castro, traded away Yainer Diaz and Jhon Torres, but even including those guys it doesn't tip the scales. From this data it looks like we are not getting much out of the international market because we always sign quantity over quality, tending to stay at the bottom edge of quality when we decide to sign players from the top of the international pool every year.
Here is the list of significant players we have signed in the past few years.
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