The Yankees now know they will not land Shohei Ohtani, but Brian Cashman vowed that the $3.5 million in international pool dollars they had earmarked for the best player in Japan will be spent.

“We have between now and June (the 15th to be precise) to use it and we will do so,” Cashman said.

In normal years there would not be much left to spend on since most of the best international amateur free agents are officially signed soon after the July 1 date to do so.

But this has not been a normal period in baseball what with this unique posting of Ohtani, the availability of the player with the largest guaranteed contract in history (Giancarlo) and the sudden free agency of 13 international signings made by the Braves in conjunction with the penalties imposed by MLB against Atlanta for subverting international rules to sign players.

That group of 13 includes Kevin Maitan, who not long ago was signed for $4.25 million by the Braves and considered one of the game’s best prospects. The shortstop lost some of that praise this season playing at the Rookie level and looking thicker than he did when he was an amateur. But he is just 17 and a switch-hitter.

The Yankees are looking to add catching prospects and Abraham Gutierrez, who received a $3.53 million signing bonus in the same 2016 class as Maitan, also is free, as are middle infielders Ji-Hwan Bae, Yunior Severino and Livan Soto, and pitchers Yefri Del Rosario and Juan Contreras, among others.

Jonathan Mayo, who writes about prospects for MLB.com, said the Yankees were looking closely at Severino and also Julio Pablo Severino, who has a Dec. 8 showcase plan. Severino, 21, is a center fielder who at the time of defection was considered one of the best players in Cuba.

“I wouldn’t say,” Cashman said about what players interest him. “We have been in the position and continue to be in the position to evaluate what is available. We never acted as if we had any knowledge that we could get Ohtani, so we evaluated the whole market place.”

The Yankees actually made four trades in the last year — two with Baltimore, one with Miami and the Sonny Gray deal with Oakland — in which they obtained international bonus pool money. It was done foremost to position them well for Ohtani, but the extra dollars are still there.

But other teams also have been accumulating dollars where possible, so the Yanks will not be alone in pursuing these ex-Braves because everyone is in the same lot — they either use their money by June 15 or lose it because it does not carry over to next year. The Twins, for example, have $3.25 million available and also found out Sunday that they are not in the Ohtani sweepstakes.

The only team with more money than the Yanks to spend, the Rangers at $3.535 million, are in the Ohtani competition, so they cannot spend those dollars until they know for sure if they need to be used for the lefty swinger/righty pitcher. Cashman would not say if that motivates him to act quickly before the Rangers get an Ohtani answer.

“This is not the first amateur we lost out on,” Cashman said. “It happens, you are competing against 29 other clubs. Obviously, there is frustration in not moving forward. We have comfort that every team East of the Mississippi and that trains in Florida was eliminated. We were part of that group. So you move on. We always planned to use it, just we know now that one player not available to us is Ohtani.”