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AmericanMovieFan
Highway robbery by the no doubt meat grinder academy and a greedy parent add up to a very unfair situation for Castro.
Dynasty22
Seems like Castro should have his money.
Junior7188
Castro was only 16, he was to young to make that kind of decision but him trying to get $5MM in damages is just wrong of him, that’s a dirty move.
Michael Kenny Jr.
Well if a judge decides the money is his, then he could be entitled to damages, since the academy is tying up $3.6 million of his money that he could otherwise be using.
alphabet_soup5
The sad thing is every MLBTR reader would pray to have the problem of $3.6 million of their money being locked up.
AmericanMovieFan
No we wouldn’t. Castro has made around $8MM lifetime at this point. Subtracting taxes and representative fees and he’s left with around $3.6-4MM. I.E. this is most of his money. Regardless of the fact that the total is $3.6MM it seems to me it leaves Castro with very little money either way. So I think it’s a terrible situation for him, not to mention embarrassing.
slider32
The good thing for him is he will make millions in the years to come.
MJensen
Oh but he sure was young enough to use the academy and its facilities.
Nick Kopke
The 5 million counter suit is to get the Dominican academy to drop its lawsuit I am guessing.
I Want My Bird
Castro stealing from the Cubs currently 🙂
MJensen
“They also claim that the academy did not have the right to Castro’s earnings, in part because Castro was just 16 when the agreement was reached ”
That’s code for “we managed to cash in with a contract and now we don’t want to give any of it up.”
J Z
More like code for “This shady third world baseball academy knows they don’t have a leg to stand on when it comes to a father signing away his son’s earnings through the age of 30, so they’re hoping we’ll settle for a few hundred grand so we can get this resolved quickly and Starlin can get his money back.”
kcstengelSr
If 16 is too young for agreements with academies, isn’t it also too young to be signing with big league teams?
NRD1138 2
Castro needs to get this resolved before the season starts, he gets easily distracted now, and this will only be another hurdle to overcome
johnrhee
Balfour will sign w/ Seattle Mariners or Papelbon w/ Cliff Lee & Carlos Ruiz possibly be traded to the Mariners in a 9 or 10 player three team trade involving the Mariners, Phillies, and Pirates (going after Justin Smoak).
DarthMurph
Why would you suggest that? Ruiz just resigned with them…
Stoibs
This Castro situation should be a huge story, but it seems like it is just going to be glossed over. How many more stories do we need to hear about players being taken advantage of or having money stolen from them. The MLB is a multi-billion dollar company that is profiting off a bunch of thieves treating kids like indentured servants. There needs to be some big changes in these baseball academies.
BaMafromLa
Papelbon and RAJ “deserve” each other… so true.
slider32
Yanks line-up looks balanced, Ellsbury, Jeter, Beltran, McCann, Tex, Soriano, Johnson, Roberts, and Gardner. Girardi is right on the money with his statement.
juice587
“It’s about spending the money wisely and trying to spend it intelligently,” Amaro said Wednesday. “Why would you spend money that you think is going to be money not well spent? That’s the important part. With the way the market is set up right now, I’m not real comfortable with going the extra mile with some of the guys that are out there still that may improve us a little bit but in the long run may be detrimental to us.”
Hilarious quote to read when you think of Amaro’s history of contracts including this years (Byrd, Ruiz)
Alyoyo
“We weren’t the luckiest birds in the world.”
Translation: Sorry about Dusty Baker, Cubs fans.
Alyoyo
“We weren’t the luckiest birds in the world.”
Translation: Sorry about Dusty Baker, Cubs fans.
Zak A
As a Phillie’s fan I can’t help but feel that we all saw this coming. As soon as RAJ doles these contracts out we smack our foreheads. Who in their right mind gives multi-year deals to players in their 40s (moyer), multi-year deal to Blanton a 5 inning max guy, multiyear to Baez, Contreras, almost giving 44MM to Madson, giving Pap even more. And the recent ones – Rollins, Utley, Ruiz, Byrd (although I like the Byrd signing, just not the $) all getting multi-year deals well over market value for what they were/are when they signed. Keeping players around just for “popularity” or to “sell tickets” isn’t going to work when you go from 105 wins to below 80 for the next few years. Sporting events are a luxury and fans are fickle across the US, they’ll pay to see a winning product that’s outside of Florida. Lee/Hamels make sense – they are still in prime elite pitchers. Howard, that one was unfortunate b/c w/out the injury it’s plausible he’s still hitting 30-40 HRs 110+ RBIs, still a lot for a guy that can’t hit LHP.