Details of the trade:

Reds trade 3B Trey Michalchewski (P-n/a) and $2.25m International funds (2014).

Rangers trade SP Jesse Chavez $2.0m (2015).

My mistake on the money. This was mistakenly posted with $2.0m Int funds and was supposed to be $2.25m Int funds.

My apologies.

How did our league International signing money get to be so far out of whack with MLB? 

Here's the actual MLB money per team this year. I realize trades have been made, but the totals aren't even close. Since International money is only good for one year, how can we have such huge discrepancies in the totals for each team compared to MLB teams?

I haven't seen any "formula" posted within the league rules that explain any difference in coming up with the amount of funds available to spend on international prospects from what MLB uses.

How did we end up with so much more money than what's available for MLB teams?

MLB Totals for International Money.

Club                    International Allotment   
Miami Marlins             4,622,400          
Houston Astros             5,015,400          
Chicago White Sox        4,273,200           
Chicago Cubs             3,962,700            
Toronto Blue Jays          2,852,900            
Colorado Rockies             3,026,700            
Minnesota Twins             3,686,600          
Kansas City Royals        2,136,800            
Milwaukee Brewers        2,611,800            
Cleveland Indians         1,980,700            
Seattle Mariners           3,440,700            
Philadelphia Phillies      3,221,800            
Arizona Diamondbacks     2,316,600            
Cincinnati Reds             2,033,400        
St. Louis Cardinals     1,866,300      
San Diego Padres     2,531,200        
San Francisco Giants     2,455,300        
Boston Red Sox             1,881,700            
Los Angeles Angels     2,383,700          
New York Mets             2,697,800        
Tampa Bay Rays             1,998,100            
Pittsburgh Pirates     1,930,400          
Washington Nationals     2,083,600          
Los Angeles Dodgers     1,963,800        
Detroit Tigers             1,946,900        
Texas Rangers             2,015,500            
Oakland Athletics     1,913,900          
Atlanta Braves             1,897,900          
New York Yankees     2,193,100            
Baltimore Orioles             2,253,100          

Here's our league:

Arizona Diamondbacks: $4,350,000
Atlanta Braves:            $4,610,000
Baltimore Orioles:        $7,310,000
Boston Red Sox:          $4,600,000
Chicago Cubs:             $4,100,000
Chicago White Sox:      $0
Cincinnati Reds:           $3,840,000
Cleveland Indians:        $6,225,000
Colorado Rockies:         $6,310,000
Detroit Tigers:             $5,750,000
Houston Astros:           $20,680,000
Kansas City Royals:      $3,700,000
Los Angeles Angels:      $9,870,000
Los Angeles Dodgers:    $7,060,000
Miami Marlins:              $0
Milwaukee Brewers:       $5,270,000
Minnesota Twins:          $8,460,000
New York Mets:            $4,960,000
New York Yankees:       $6,820,000
Oakland A's:                $0
Philadelphia Phillies:     $7,690,000
Pittsburgh Pirates:        $840,000
San Diego Padres:        $5,900,000
San Francisco Giants:    $3,975,000
Seattle Mariners:          $4,780,000
St. Louis Cardinals:       $0
Tampa Bay Rays:          $3,310,000
Texas Rangers:             $3,940,000
Toronto Blue Jays:         $8,590,000
Washington Nationals:   $3,840,000

 

The Reds offer Jen-Ho Tsen a PC + 50k.

http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/player.cgi?id=tseng-000jen

PC contract

http://www.baseball-reference.com/players/s/schlibr01.shtml

5 years @ 300k = 1.5m