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PLACEHOLDER. How this market changed across twelve signing periods, and where a change in the data lands on a change in the rules.

Every international amateur free agent signed between 2009 and 2021.

A census of 10,439 signings across the 2009-10 through 2020-21 signing periods, built from MLB’s transaction log rather than from published signing lists, with career outcomes attached. Public coverage of this market has historically reached only the deals that were reported at the time.

The charts below describe what is in the data. They are not arranged to argue a point.