Major League Baseball hit the Red Sox with significant penalties for alleged “package” deals to circumvent regulations on the bonuses to which they could sign international amateur free agents.

What does that mean? What are the penalties? What did Major League Baseball want to accomplish with those penalties? And what might be the consequences -- intended and unintended -- of them? Ben Badler of Baseball America joins 108 Stitches: The Podcast to help explain all of that.