Starting today (January 15, 2025) teams can begin to make signings for the 2025 year. This season’s signings are obviously thrown into chaos by the Roki Sasaki free agency as the Dodgers, Padres, and Blue Jays may all seek to acquire signing money to lure him or sign players they have committed deals too. Additionally those teams may lose players who are worried about their deals no longer being committed. The Phillies have $6,261,600 to spend this year and do not have a truly big name in their class. There are rumored names in the high 6 figures, but no multi million dollar deal. It is unknown if this will play into the Sasaki chaos or we could see them spread the money around.
I will update this throughout the day as deals are official or other things develop. You can track money spent and what that means on the spreadsheet.
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Signings
- Nieves Izaguirre, SS, Venezuela – Pipeline #44
- Elias Marrero, SS, Dominican Republic – $700,000
- Deivis Velasquez, C, Venezuela
- Geremy Viloria, RHP, Venezuela
- Dayber Cruceta, OF, Dominican Republic – $300,000
- Leonardo Carpio, OF, Venezuela
- Rafael Oropeza, SS, Venezuela
- Eduardo Guillen, OF, Cuba – $65,000 – source / bonus from Francys Romero
- Filoppo Sabantini, RHP, Italy – $80,000
- Deiry Gonzalez, RHP, Dominican Republic
- Anderson Araujo, C, Venezuela
- Carlos Duran, LHP, Dominican Republic – $200,000 – source
- Samuel Salcedo, SS, Venezuela
- Nelson Prieto, C, Venezuela
- Carlos Severino, SS, Dominican Republic
- Reyner Zambrano, LHP, Venezuela
- Romeli Espinosa, SS, Dominican Republic
- Maykol Fernandez, SS, Venezuela
- Yordanis Guerra, OF, Dominican Republic
- Domingo Morla, 3B, Dominican Republic
- Roiner Cespede, SS, Venezuela
- Jorge Mitre, RHP, Panama
- Gabriel Azocar, C, Venezuela
- Luis Hernandez. C, Venezuela
- Gabriel Flores, C, Venezuela
- Ramon Marquez, RHP, United States
- Diego Marquez, RHP, Venezuela
- David Hernandez, LHP, Mexico
- Elian Adames, OF, Dominican Republic
I don’t feel not having a high dollar sign International Free Agent is a bad thing. It feels, to me at least, the Phillies graduate as many high dollar signees as they do <$250k.
Spread the money around and see what happens.
Agreed……Phillies seven-figure signings rarely materialized into MLB.
Filippo Sabatini
https://www.fibs.it/en/news/filippo-sabatini-firma-ufficialmente-per-i-philadelphia-phillies