The Dodgers opened baseball’s international signing period Saturday by making two highly regarded additions to their farm system in 17-year-old prospects Samuel Munoz and Accimia Morales, according to a person with knowledge of the signings.
Even though the Dodgers had what was tied for the league’s smallest pool of international signing money this year, Munoz and Morales headline a class that is expected to include more than 30 new players. Munoz, a left-handed hitter from the Dominican Republic, was ranked as the seventh-best overall prospect available in this year’s international class by MLB Pipeline, which projected him to develop into a power hitter with enough athleticism defensively to eventually play in either in the infield or outfield.
Morales, a right-handed pitcher from Venezuela, was the No. 37 overall prospect, becoming the latest in a growing list of Venezuelan products to join the Dodgers in recent international signing periods.The previous three years, the team had signed the country’s top-ranked prospect, starting with the addition of catcher Diego Cartaya — now considered to be the club’s top prospect — in 2018.
Morales was the 13th-ranked Venezuelan player this year. Seven of the 15 total players who had already agreed to a deal with the Dodgers as of Saturday afternoon are from Venezuela,
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