The Mariners are reported to have already signed OF Jose Leal out of Venezula late last night. He’s an athletic outfielder with some raw tools. He’s not much in the way of immediate wow factor (6’3, 190) but you never know with these sorts of things.

UPDATE 9:26 AM

The Royals signed OF Elier Hernandez for $3.05 Million this morning.

UPDATE 10:25

Wow, I walked away from the computer and bam, bam, bam. Deals being thrown down.

First and most important the Mariners signed OF Helsin Martinez. That’s solid news, I don’t know if he’s as good as Phillips Castillo (Mariners top out field signee in 2010) was but he’s definitely a solid prospect to have. More on him later.

Tigers Sign 3B, Adelin Santa, Pirates Sign OF Harold Ramirez, then the biggest shocker is the $5M bonus that the Rangers gave to OF Nomar Mazara.

Mazara is, in my opinion, well within the discussion for top-5 position player in this class. But hardly worth a record setting sign. This is a game changer and I really hate how the Rangers consistently have to do this.

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Most of the information that I had has since been leaked by various sources so nothing really is surprising but for anyone that hasn’t heard any information on the talents available for the start of the International Free Agency (which opens tomorrow with the July 2nd signing day) this will be kind of a good primer.

So lets take a look at some of the names.

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