8 Teams With Strong International Signing Classes

Plus: Dodgers-Yankees historical context, Tennessee flips a top 2025 prospect & Nick Kurtz heads to the Arizona Fall League.

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8 Teams With Strong Returns From Their 2024 International Signing Classes

It takes much more than a year to be able to measure the ultimate quality of a team’s international signing class. But after one season, there’s a lot of new information we have to be able to judge the early returns on how each team’s 2024 international signing class is shaping up.

With professional games in the Dominican Summer League having revealed a new layer of information to bring our evaluations of players into sharper focus, Baseball America’s Ben Badler takes a look at which teams came out ahead on the international scene in 2024. Highlights include:

  • An NL Central team that nabbed the top prospect in the DSL for $950,000

  • An AL East squad that is starting to make some moves in Latin America after many long, dormant years

  • An NL West club that put nearly nearly all of its international bonus pool money toward a switch-hitting Dominican shortstop

Baseball America Previews Dodgers Vs. Yankees

After what felt like the longest week of all-time, the 2024 World Series is finally set to begin tonight in Los Angeles. First pitch for Game 1 is scheduled for 8:08 p.m. EST with Gerrit Cole on the hill for the Yankees opposite Dodgers starter Jack Flaherty.

To help get ready for one of the most highly-anticipated World Series matchups in years, here’s a look at Baseball America’s coverage from the past week:

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10 Pitchers To Know From Perfect Game’s WWBA World Championship

Earlier this week, Peter Flaherty shared his list of standout hitters from the annual World Wood Bat tournament down in Jupiter, Fla. Today, Peter is back with his breakdown of the event’s top 10 pitchers. Highlights include:

  • A 6-foot-5 Duke commit who hit 98 mph on the radar gun

  • A Georgia Tech commit who had the Marlins & Cardinals complex buzzing

  • A 6-foot-7 righthander who tossed an immaculate inning

TRENDING NOW AT BASEBALL AMERICA

👀 Tennessee flips one of the top prospects in the 2025 draft class. Ben Badler has more.

🌤️ Nick Kurtz is headed to the Arizona Fall League while Bryce Eldridge’s season comes to a close.

😵‍💫 J.J. Cooper walked us through the long and convoluted history of MLB’s confusing service time rules.

💰 Shohei Ohtani’s 50/50 home run ball made baseball history… and it also made someone very, very rich.

🎙️ This week’s Draft Podcast kicked off the hype train for 2026 shortstops Jacob Lombard and Grady Emerson.

🍁 Seth Mates shared some intel on a pair of upcoming Leaf baseball card releases featuring loads of prospect autographs to chase.

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