The international signing period opened for all Major League Baseball clubs over the weekend, and while the Cincinnati Reds have played the cheapo card repeatedly on their big league payroll since the end of the 2021 regular season, this marked a window where they once again spent like a competent franchise once again.

Many of the biggest names they signed over the weekend had long been linked to them during previous scouting windows, with Ben Badler and the fine folks at Baseball America keeping us abreast of the likelihood all along. Their signing tracker has the entirety of the Reds class so far, though it’s undeniably headlined by Ricardo Cabrera, a shortstop prospect pretty universally ranked as the #3 overall international prospect available in this particular class.