Major League Baseball has issued a warning to clubs about trying to encourage high school players to withdraw from their school's baseball team, thus making them eligible to sign as international free agents.
ESPN's Kiley McDaniel obtained a copy of the memo that was sent out to teams on Monday:
"It has come to our attention that Clubs have been encouraging amateur players in the United States to withdraw from, or otherwise refrain from playing, high school baseball in the United States and/or Canada, in order to try to establish residency in a foreign country, in an effort to make themselves eligible to sign under the International Amateur Talent System instead of the Rule 4 Draft.