Dominican scouting shifts in baseball – (more than $84 million a year pours into the Domincan Republic from Major League Baseball) From: latimes.com
Tagged: Baseball
For decades, this island’s gifted young baseball prospects weren’t hard to find or sign — if those in the small fraternity of major league scouts were willing to beat the bushes and endure the hardships to track them down.
“When we went to the countryside, to little towns for tryouts, sometimes we would sleep and eat in our jeep because there were no hotels,” recalled Ralph Avila, a longtime Dodgers scout who signed All-Stars Pedro Martinez, Raul Mondesi and Jose Offerman.”*
*From: www.latimes.com
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