International Signing Penalty?

scottybones · 12-17-2019, 11:47 PM

Hello;

Hoping for help. I am playing with the first year expansion Montreal Expos in 2020. I have 1.5 million in international signing penalties. I have no idea why. There was never an e-mail or an alert telling me about a penalty. Does anyone else have an idea as to why these penalties exist? There is a player I want to sign but am unable due to this penalty. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

bwburke94 · 12-18-2019, 04:00 PM

Under the 2012 CBA, if teams exceeded the international signing soft cap, they would be taxed 100% of the excess and would be restricted in the following year's international pool.

This changed in the 2016 CBA, in which the international signing cap became a hard cap, so such penalties no longer exist.

scottybones · 12-18-2019, 06:45 PM

Thank you for the response. I thought of that but as a first year expansion team, I would not have been able to exceed the previous year's cap as I did not exist.

12-17-2019, 11:47 PM	#1
scottybones Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 7	International Signing Penalty? Hello; Hoping for help. I am playing with the first year expansion Montreal Expos in 2020. I have 1.5 million in international signing penalties. I have no idea why. There was never an e-mail or an alert telling me about a penalty. Does anyone else have an idea as to why these penalties exist? There is a player I want to sign but am unable due to this penalty. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

12-18-2019, 04:00 PM	#2
bwburke94 Hall Of Famer Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Belchertown, MA, USA Posts: 4,443	Under the 2012 CBA, if teams exceeded the international signing soft cap, they would be taxed 100% of the excess and would be restricted in the following year's international pool. This changed in the 2016 CBA, in which the international signing cap became a hard cap, so such penalties no longer exist.

12-18-2019, 06:45 PM	#3
scottybones Bat Boy Join Date: Oct 2019 Posts: 7	Thank you for the response. I thought of that but as a first year expansion team, I would not have been able to exceed the previous year's cap as I did not exist.