When you’ve signed guys like Julio Rodriguez and Noelvi Marte in consecutive years, the global palate of one’s tongue become a little more refined—the buds that lay rest upon this tongue are epicurean in nature these days. My pretentious disposition and expectation for international talent is how things have come to be.
This is me now. I want my baseball served with capers or not at all.
Alas, the 2019 International Signing period will be an exercise in restraint and subsumption. The Mariners have elected to spread their international bonus pool money across a greater array of talent instead of splurging on one big name this year.