ORLANDO — Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred is still deciding the penalties the Atlanta Braves will receive for violating rules in the international market. Those penalties, however, will definitely include the loss of prospects the team signed out of Latin America, according to major-league sources.



Any players the Braves lose become free agents subject to international bonus pools, sources said. The procedure will be the same as it was for the five Latin American prospects that baseball took from the Boston Red Sox on July 1, 2016, for circumventing international rules—the players kept their initial signing bonuses, each of which was $300,000, then became eligible to sign with other clubs. The players’ union, under terms of the collective bargaining agreement, must sign off on Manfred changing the statuses of the players involved, as it did in the case with the Red Sox.



Manfred has yet to decide which players the Braves will forfeit, sources...